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Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching the Small Group
(Small-Group Instruction Strategies to Differentiate Math Lessons in Elementary Classrooms)
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
When done right, small-group instruction is a powerful tool for facilitating student understanding in K-5 mathematics. Throughout the book, best practices for small-group math instruction are addressed in detail, from planning tasks that encourage deep understanding to asking effective questions to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The aim of this volume entitled Digital Technologies: Sustainable Innovations for improving Teaching and Learning is to contribute in the global discussion on digital technologies as the means to foster sustainable educational innovations for improving the teaching, learning and assessment from K-12...
by Cathy Huber
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Tips for Terrific Teaching offers tried and true ideas that work for career teachers. These are practical, common sense tips for interacting with students, parents and school personnel. It suggests techniques for setting goals, testing, grading, furnishing a classroom on a budget and discipline. This...
Facilitative Collaborative Knowledge Co-Construction
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 143
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Collaborative teaching and learning has been a focus of research recently, yet it can sometimes be a challenge for multicultural students in an educational setting. This second volume of a two-volume edition helps lecturers, educators, and teachers create collaborative teaching and learning experiences...
Transforming Teaching and Learning with Active and Dramatic Approaches
Engaging Students Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014!
How can teachers transform classroom teaching and learning by making pedagogy more socially and culturally responsive, more relevant to students’ lives, and more collaborative? How can they engage disaffected students in learning and at the same time...
Science 3-13
The Past, The Present and Possible Futures
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Which factors have been influential in developing science teaching and learning for the three to thirteen age group in the last twenty years? How might these factors have an impact on the future direction of science teaching and learning for this age range into the 21st century? How can teachers cope...
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
Don’t Confuse Me with the Data, My Mind Is Made Up!
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation makes a case for the importance of developing students’ intelligent habits of mind so that they become more discriminating consumers of the information that comes at them from the Internet, social media, television and the tabloid press in this “alternate...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
This landmark volume provides a broad-based, comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning. All authors are leading authorities in their areas of expertise. The chapters, all completely new for Volume 2, are organized in eight...
by Professor Simon J Catling, Tessa Willy
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
This book outlines how good teaching of primary geography can extend children's world awareness and help them make connections between their environmental and geographical experiences. Chapters offer guidance on important learning and teaching issues as well as the use and creation of resources from...
Theory of Teaching Thinking
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Across the world education for 'thinking’ is seen as the key to thriving in an increasingly complex, globalised, technological world. The OECD suggests that teaching thinking is key to growing a more successful economy; others claim it is needed for increased democratic engagement and well-being.
Theory...
by Noam Neusner
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
How should universities balance the requirements of teaching with those of scholarship? The consensus that scholarship counts first and teaching comes second has lost its hold, for in an academic world in which few publish (95 percent of publications come from 5 percent of the professors), insisting...
Mastery Teaching Skills
A Resource for Implementing the Common Core State Standards
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Mastery Teaching Skills is a professional development book that will help teachers and principals implement the Common Core State Standards. This book reviews the main features of the Common Core as well as providing implementation examples. Marie Pagliaro provides a thorough list of teaching skills...
Making Space for Active Learning
The Art and Practice of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This powerful collection will inspire new and veteran teachers to “make space” for children’s interests, for teaching as relational and intellectual work, and for new insights and ideas. The authors introduce the Prospect Center’s Descriptive Review of Practice, a collaborative...
by Kim Earle, Gill Curry
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The SEND Code of Practice (2015) reinforced the requirement that all teachers must meet the needs of all learners. This topical book provides practical, tried and tested strategies and resources that will support teachers in making art lessons accessible and interesting for all pupils, including those...