Teaching category: 65474 books
The University and its Disciplines
Teaching and Learning within and beyond disciplinary boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
University teaching and learning take place within ever more specialized disciplinary settings, each characterized by its unique traditions, concepts, practices and procedures. It is now widely recognized that support for teaching and learning needs to take this discipline-specificity into account....
by Professor John Sharp, Mr Graham A Peacock, Mr Rob Johnsey
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
The essential teaching theory and practice text for primary science. Covering the key skills of planning, monitoring and assessment and class management, it relates these specifically to primary science. The 5th edition of this popular text includes new features making specific links to Every Child Matters...
Teaching as an Act of Love
Thoughts and Recollections of a Former Teacher, Principal and Kid
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
The author, a former elementary school teacher and principal, conveys in this collection of thought-provoking, humorous and heartwarming pieces, written over the past 35 years, that teaching and learning are essentially acts of love.
Richard Lakin's collection is geared to teachers, principals,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The International Handbook on Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith Based Schools is international in scope. It is addressed to policy makers, academics, education professionals and members of the wider community. The book is divided into three sections.
(1) The Educational, Historical, Social...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Issues in Design and Technology Teaching identifies and examines the important concerns in this subject, seeking to challenge preconceptions and stimulate debate about this relative newcomer to the National Curriculum. Key areas addressed are:
Issues of Definition: getting to the roots of the...
Primary Humanities
Learning Through Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
'This book brings together the traditions of historical enquiry and geographical enquiry. At its heart is the belief in children's capacities to be enquiring historians and geographers, enabling them to develop a sound base of historical and geographical knowledge and understanding'
- Lynne...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The fully updated second edition of Teaching History Creatively introduces teachers to the wealth of available approaches to historical enquiry, ensuring creative, effective learning. This book clearly sets out the processes of historical enquiry, demonstrating how these are integrally linked with...
by David Kember
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book is based upon three interrelated open naturalistic studies conducted to better characterise the motivational orientation of students in higher education. Open semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with undergraduates, students at community colleges and students in taught postgraduate...
Cloud Computing for Teaching and Learning
Strategies for Design and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
With its cost efficiency, enabling of collaboration and sharing of resources, and its ability to improve access, cloud computing is likely to play a big role in the classrooms of tomorrow. Cloud Computing for Teaching and Learning: Strategies for Design and Implementation provides the latest information...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book presents current perspectives on theoretical and empirical issues related to the teaching and learning of geometry at secondary schools. It contains chapters contributing to three main areas. A first set of chapters examines mathematical, epistemological, and curricular perspectives. A...
by Catherine Watts, Clare Forder, Hilary Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Living Languages is simply bursting with practical and original ideas aimed at teachers and trainee teachers of foreign languages in primary schools. Written by a team of experienced linguists, this book will inspire and motivate the foreign language classroom and the teachers who work within it.
Living...
Informatics Curricula and Teaching Methods
IFIP TC3 / WG3.2 Conference on Informatics Curricula, Teaching Methods and Best Practice (ICTEM 2002) July 10–12, 2002, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Several aspects of informatics curricula and teaching methods at the university level are reported in this volume, including:
*Challenges in defining an international curriculum;
*The diversity in informatics curricula;
*Computing programs for scientists and engineers;
*Patterns of curriculum design;
*Student...
Teaching Children English as an Additional Language
A Programme for 7-12 Year Olds
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Here is a typical classroom scenario: out of the thirty children, two-thirds speak a different language at home and only speak English at school. Even though many pupils’ English skills are almost non-existent, teachers are expected to provide the national curriculum for every child in the class.
Teaching...
Teaching Middle Years
Rethinking curriculum, pedagogy and assessment
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The middle years of schooling are increasingly recognised as a crucial stage in students' lives, one that has significant consequences for ongoing educational success. International research indicates that young adolescents benefit from programs designed especially for their needs.
Teaching...