Teaching category: 65474 books
Developing Online Language Teaching
Research-Based Pedagogies and Reflective Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
When moving towards teaching online, teachers are confronted every day with issues such as online moderation, establishing social presence online, transitioning learners to online environments, giving feedback online. This book supports language teaching professionals and researchers who are keen to engage in online teaching and learning.
Teaching With Text-Based Questions
Helping Students Analyze Nonfiction and Visual Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Help your students navigate complex texts in history/social studies and English language arts! This book shows you how to use a key tool—text-based questions—to build students’ literacy and critical thinking skills and meet the Common Core State Standards. You’ll learn how to ask text-based...
Creative Teaching for All
In the Box, Out of the Box, and Off the Walls
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Creative Teaching for All as an antidote to rapidly growing pressures for quick and easy teacher results, and constant evaluations. Employ creative ideas to resist teaching to the (usually factual) test, and to the many choking rules, standards, cores, and state regulations that strangle motivation...
Teaching Machines
Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The allure of educational technology is easy to understand. Classroom instruction is an expensive and time-consuming process fraught with contradictory theories and frustratingly uneven results. Educators, inspired by machines’ contributions to modern life, have been using technology to facilitate...
Embracing Mathematics
On Becoming a Teacher and Changing with Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This alternative textbook for courses on teaching mathematics asks teachers and prospective teachers to reflect on their relationships with mathematics and how these relationships influence their teaching and the experiences of their students. Applicable to all levels of schooling, the book covers...
The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom
Connecting Culture to Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom explains and illustrates how an African worldview, as a platform for culture-based teaching and learning, helps educators to retrieve African heritage and cultural knowledge which have been historically discounted and decoupled from teaching and learning....
Strategic Co-Teaching in Your School
Using the Co-Design Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
As a school leader, you probably know about the benefits of co-teaching in inclusive classrooms—and maybe your school already puts it into practice. Now there's a book that helps your school take collaborative teaching and learning to the next level, so educators benefit from each other's expertise...
How to Teach Literature
Introductory Course
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
How to Teach Literature: Introductory Course provides a detailed resource for homeschool or conventional teachers and administrators interested in an in-depth study of the subject. This fourth and final book in this series of teaching guides includes information not found in literature anthologies...
Uni-Wissen Teaching English in the Primary School
Optimize your exam preparation Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Teaching English in the Primary School provides a comprehensive introduction to the teaching of English in the primary school. It focuses on developments in Germany and includes a European perspective as regards current research and education policies. The book systematically presents relevant research...
by Philip W. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This collection of six original essays, written over a period of several years, brings together Philip Jackson’s reflections and insights on the practice of teaching. He emphasizes the “deceiving simplicity of teaching” and aims to uncover the complexity of the craft by addressing the uncertainties...
Listening
A Framework for Teaching Across Differences
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can new and experienced teachers rethink their teaching and learn to embrace and grow from the diversity they encounter among their students? Rather than preparing teachers to follow prescriptions or blueprints, Katherine Schultz suggests that they be given the tools and the opportunity to attend...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
According to NCTM’s Principles and Standards for School mathematics, "Technology is essential in teaching and learning of mathematics; it influences the mathematics that is taught and it enhances students’ learning.” How does research inform this clarion call for technology in mathematics teaching...
by Ms Maureen Parker, Dr Chris Lee, Mr Stuart Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
'This new edition helps the reader better understand their role in the school and classroom, in the complex and constantly changing world of education. It provides excellent support for helping the reader develop greater effectiveness in their classroom practice, both through exploring the theory...
Professional Values and Practice
The Essential Guide for Higher Level Teaching Assistants
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Professional Values and Practice concentrates on the more theoretical aspects of the HLTA role: professionalism, relationships, statutory frameworks and knowing your limits. It offers guidance and support on fulfilling the standards and succeeding both inside and outside of the classroom. This book...