Teaching category: 65474 books
by Stephen D. Brookfield
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Praise for Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults
"Stephen Brookfield has used his gifts for clear thinking and lucid writing to produce this theoretically informed, immensely practical book on how the dynamics of power and adult teaching intersect. It should be required reading for everyone...
Faculty Development in Developing Countries
Improving Teaching Quality in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Learner-centered approaches to teaching, such as small group discussions, debates, role plays and project-based assignments, help students develop critical thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills. However, more traditional lecture-based approaches still predominate in classrooms in higher...
by Cherise Kelley
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
"You're a high school substitute? Are you crazy? We were so mean to them!" This is a common reaction when I tell people what I do, but I love substitute teaching at the high school level.
I started substitute teaching in 1989, fresh out of college. I was looking for a way to support...
Effective Online Teaching
Foundations and Strategies for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Effective Online Teaching is an essential resource that offers a clear understanding of how cognition and learning theory applies to online learning. This much-needed resource provides specific strategies for incorporating this knowledge into effective learner-centered teaching that gets results....
The Teaching Revolution
RTI, Technology, and Differentiation Transform Teaching for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Imagine the school of the future!
The Teaching Revolution provides a futuristic and provocative discussion on the combining of three major instructional innovations—RTI, technology, and differentiation. Drawing on the growing 21st-century skills movement, the text engagingly weaves these...
by Aunty Alice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
In spite of the wide range of resources and innovative teaching methods schools have had and are using, many students still fail to acquire literacy. Many have specific problems with word and letter symbols. They reverse and invert them, their hearing cannot discriminate fine differences in letter...
Teaching for Learning
101 Intentionally Designed Educational Activities to Put Students on the Path to Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Despite a growing body of research on teaching methods, instructors lack a comprehensive resource that highlights and synthesizes proven approaches. Teaching for Learning fills that gap. Each of the one hundred and one entries:
describes an approach and lists its essential features and elements
demonstrates...
by Bert Creemers, Leonidas Kyriakides, Panayiotis Antoniou
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
This book makes a major contribution to knowledge and theory by drawing implications of teacher effectiveness research for the field of teacher training and professional development. The first part of the book provides a critical review of research on teacher training and professional development...
Implementing Sustainability in the Curriculum of Universities
Approaches, Methods and Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This book presents sustainable development themes across universities and introduces methodological approaches and projects to the teaching staff.
It has been prepared against this background, to identify ways to better teach about sustainability issues in a university context. It contains...
Teaching Language and Literature in Elementary Classrooms
A Resource Book for Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
The goal of this book -- a theoretically based, well-organized, useful guide for teaching -- is to help the beginning teacher create a classroom environment that integrates literacy development with learning in all areas of the curriculum. The major components of an integrated language program are...
Teacher's Field Guide
7 Truths About Teaching to Help You Start off Strong, Avoid Burnout, and Stay in Love with Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Fifty percent of new teachers leave the profession within the first five years.
Of those who stay, most go through periods of burnout.
Teachers everywhere start with high hopes of making a difference, but quickly get consumed with all of the unexpected demands, leaving them exhausted...
The New Science of Teaching and Learning
Using the Best of Mind, Brain, and Education Science in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers a definitive, scientifically grounded guide for better teaching and learning practices. Drawing from thousands of documents and the opinions of recognized experts worldwide, it explains in straight talk the new Mind, Brain, and Education Science—a field that has grown out of...
Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education
Teaching, learning and identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education explores how managers influence teaching, learning and academic identities and how new initiatives in teaching and learning change the organizational structure of universities. By building on organizational studies and higher education studies literatures,...
Teaching That Works
Effective Practice Combined with Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Teaching that Works: Effective Practice Combined with Theory and Research is a practical, teacher friendly examination of the ways that a comprehensive approach to all of the aspects of teaching, working together, can achieve results greater than the sum of the individual parts. Traditional teacher...