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Eyes on Math
A Visual Approach to Teaching Math Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This new book is an exciting follow-up to the authors’ bestsellers on differentiated math instruction, Good Questions and More Good Questions. Eyes on Math is a unique teaching resource that provides engaging, full-color graphics and pictures with text showing teachers how to use each image...
A Guide to Teaching Practice
5th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
A Guide to Teaching Practice is the major standard text for all students on initial teacher training courses in the UK.
Authoritative yet accessible, it covers the important basic skills and issues that students need to consider during their practice, such as planning, classroom organization, behaviour...
Teaching Mathematics through Story
A creative approach for the early years
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
How do you make mathematics relevant and exciting to young children? How can mathematics and literacy be combined in a meaningful way? How can stories inspire the teaching and learning of mathematics?
This book explores the exciting ways in which story can be used as a flexible resource...
Math Makes Sense!
A Constructivist Approach to the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
The methods for teaching mathematics usually follow the structure of mathematics. The problem with this is that the structure of mathematics took centuries of elaboration to develop and is not the same as how one originally experiences mathematics. Based on research of how mathematics is actually...
Evidence-Based Learning and Teaching
A Look into Australian Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Education has become a political, economic and social priority for Australia, with the success of schools (and teachers) being an integral part of the economic and social future of the country. As a result, quality assurance for learning and teaching has become increasingly debated among policy-makers...
Empowering Professional Teaching in Engineering
Sustaining the Scholarship of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Each one of us has views about education, how discipline should function, how individuals learn, how they should be motivated, what intelligence is, and the structures (content and subjects) of the curriculum. Perhaps the most important beliefs that (beginning) teachers bring with them are their notions...
by Keith C. Barton, Linda S. Levstik
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
In Teaching History for the Common Good, Barton and Levstik present a clear overview of competing ideas among educators, historians, politicians, and the public about the nature and purpose of teaching history, and they evaluate these debates in light of current research on students' historical thinking....
by Steven A. Stahl, William E. Nagy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Learning new words is foundational to success in school and life. Researchers have known for years that how many word meanings a student knows is one of the strongest predictors of how well that student will understand text and be able to communicate through writing. This book is about how children...
by June Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
One of the major concerns in education at present is how to recruit and attract more teachers from ethnic minorities. In an attempt to move beyond the superficial and simplistic responses as to why these students are not entering teaching this book presents in-depth interviews with over two hundred people...
Teaching Communication
Theory, Research, and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The field of communication was founded, in part, because of a need to make people better communicators. That meant teaching them how to communicate more effectively, whether it be in public settings or in private. Most of that teaching has happened within the classroom and many professionals have...
by Mary Briggs, Alice Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Play is an essential part of learning and development for children and is an increasingly important aspect of creative approaches to teaching and learning in primary education. This book demonstrates the value of play in all its different forms as a highly effective medium for teaching and learning...
Get Up or Give Up
How I Almost Gave Up on Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Michael Bonner knew he wanted to be a teacher after his favorite college professor, Dr. Poulson, inspired him. The professor’s passion and love for teaching prompted Michael to change his major and his life’s direction. But nothing prepared Michael for the reality of a Title One school.
Teaching...
Designing Teaching Strategies
An Applied Behavior Analysis Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2002
The US Dept. of Education, in conjunction with the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, recently unveiled a $50 million effort to expand research on early childhood cognitive development. A key issue identified requiring more information and research was the education and professional development...
Explaining Reading, Third Edition
A Resource for Explicit Teaching of the Common Core Standards
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This trusted teacher resource and widely adopted text presents effective ways to demystify essential reading skills and strategies for K-8 students who are struggling. It has been fully revised to focus on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts. Following a concise introduction...