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The College Success Book
A Whole-Student Approach to Academic Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The College Success Book goes beyond the academic and intellectual behaviors usually associated with study skills programs. This practical, “user friendly” book provides exercises and activities focusing on the whole student to help develop the behaviors and attitudes necessary for success in...
The Skinny on Teaching
What You Don’t Learn in Graduate School
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This book is a straightforward and entertaining primer on college teaching. It discusses the nittygritty aspects of teaching while providing readers with a synoptic but concise explanation of the principles of the art. It also offers a viable alternative to the books on teaching currently available or...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms brings together various approaches to the contextualized teaching of grammar and communicative skills as integrated components of second language instruction. Its purpose is to show from both theoretical and practical perspectives...
by Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, Alison G. Dover, Nick Henning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This practical book shows how veteran, justice-oriented social studies teachers are responding to the Common Core State Standards, focusing on how they build curriculum, support students’ literacy skills, and prepare students to think and act critically within and beyond the classroom. In order...
Teaching at Its Best
A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
The classic teaching toolbox, updated with new research and ideas
Teaching at Its Best is the bestselling, research-based toolbox for college instructors at any level, in any higher education setting. Packed with practical guidance, proven techniques, and expert perspectives, this book helps...
Teaching Disciplinary Literacy
Using Video Records of Practice to Improve Secondary Teacher Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This practical guide will help pre- and inservice secondary teachers and their instructors and coaches to use videos as a resource to improve teaching. Derived from the authors’ research and experience in a teacher preparation program using video records of practice as a core element for reflection...
Empowered Educators
How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Discover how high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the world
Producing highly skilled and committed teachers is not the work of a single innovative school or the aggregation of heroic individuals who succeed against the odds. In high-performing countries, the opportunities for...
The Mindfulness Teaching Guide
Essential Skills and Competencies for Teaching Mindfulness-Based Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
You must embody mindfulness in order to teach it. The Mindfulness Teaching Guide offers a thorough and practical guide for mindfulness teachers and professionals, offering a systematic approach to developing the teaching methods, skills, and competencies needed to become a proficient mindfulness teacher.
Mindfulness...
What Successful Teachers Do
A Dozen Things to Ensure Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A Dozen Things will be engaged with the personal stories of teaching, while also gaining strategies for success in their classrooms. A quick glance at the table of contents provides insight into the issues teachers face and how to thrive and succeed. Successful teachers prepare personally and professionally...
Teaching, Learning and the Net Generation
Concepts and Tools for Reaching Digital Learners
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Although a growing body of research demonstrates the need for education to adapt to the needs of the Net Generation, research also shows that traditional teaching methods continue to dominate the classroom. To stay effective, higher education must adapt to the needs of this unique generation of digital...
Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities
Problematizing Stereotypes, Challenging Myths
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This definitive look at teaching English in rural secondary schools contests current definitions and discussions of rural education, examines their ideological and cultural foundations, and presents an alternative perspective that conceptualizes rural communities as diverse, unique, and conducive...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Schedule constraints and other complicating factors can make face-to-face educational methods inadequate to the needs of learners. Thus, blended learning has emerged as a compromise that reconciles the need for high-tech and high-touch learning and teaching interactions. Transcultural Blended Learning...
We Don't Need Another Hero
Struggle, Hope and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his latest book, bestselling author Gregory Michie critiques high-stakes schooling and provides a powerful alternative vision of teaching as a humanistic enterprise, students as multidimensional beings, and schools as spaces where young people can imagine and become, not just achieve. Drawing on...
Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds
Immersive Learning in English Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
What are the realities and possibilities of utilizing on-line virtual worlds as teaching tools for specific literary works? Through engaging and surprising stories from classrooms where virtual worlds are in use, this book invites readers to understand and participate in this emerging and valuable...