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Inquiry-Guided Learning
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 129
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Is inquiry-guided learning a universal answer for various teaching and learning ills in higher education?
With eight institutional case studies drawn from colleges and universities in English-speaking countries, this volume provides a clear description of inquiry-guided learning based on best...
by Oran Tkatchov, Michele Pollnow
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
A Practical Guide to Teaching and Learning contains a compilation of fifteen main ideas or concepts that will help teachers to become better at what they do to help learners reach their potential. Each concept is a common sense approach that is backed by research and provides an understanding of what...
by Justin Shewell
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
One of the biggest myths in online teaching is that it is easier and less time-consuming than teaching face-to-face. Many institutions, in fact, assign online teachers a heavier work load because “Hey, they’re only teaching online.” The truth is that teaching online takes more time and effort...
Teaching the iStudent
A Quick Guide to Using Mobile Devices and Social Media in the K-12 Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Meet digital natives on their own turf!
Our students are already accustomed to constantly-evolving mobile technology and they crave more than what plain paper and pencil can provide. Veteran teacher, renowned author, and tech expert Mark Barnes shows educators how to use mobile devices and...
How to Develop the Habits of Outstanding Teaching
A practical guide for secondary teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
There can arguably be no greater influence on a person’s life than their education, and it is the classroom practice of teachers that helps to shape young lives. How to Develop the Habits of Outstanding Teaching aims to help teachers improve their teaching habits and practice so that every student...
by Robert Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
During my first year teaching overseas, I amassed so many notes of all the things I wish I had known before heading overseas that I decided to put them all together to help others who, like me, wanted to venture overseas to teach English. These are personal insights I gained from experience. Though...
by Dr Tony Liversidge, Matt Cochrane, Judith Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Reflective practice is at the heart of effective teaching, and this book helps you develop into a reflective teacher of Science. Everything you need is here: guidance on developing your analysis and self-evaluation skills, the knowledge of what you are trying to achieve and why, and examples of...
Creative Writing: the Quick Matrix
Selected exercises & ideas for teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Creative Writing: the Quick Matrix is for writers teaching creative writing to adults. Can be adapted by any teacher for many levels of creative writing, and by writers' circles and individual writers.The 86 exercises and 18 mini-lectures selected from the original paperback are arranged in five sections...
Discussion as a Way of Teaching
Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of the landmark book Discussion as a Way of Teaching shows how to plan, conduct, and assess classroom discussions. Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill suggest exercises for starting discussions, strategies for maintaining their momentum, and...
by Dustin De Felice, Stephanie Bennett, Melissa Horn
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Teaching with Technology 2015: Language Educators Talking Tech
Written By Stephanie Bennett, Melissa Horn, & Marie-Lynda Akono
Edited By Dustin De Felice
In this annual volume, you will read the words and stories of educators adapting to and working with technology in ways that make...
Teaching Children to Love Problem Solving
A Reference from Birth through Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book was developed with the caring and concerned adult in mind and is a one-stop for anyone who would like to help a child develop problem solving thinking. They will become adept at the use of problem solving strategies over the course of their development from birth. For each age range, this...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This volume will contain selected proceedings from the 2013 Symposium on Music Teacher Education, sponsored by NAfME’s Society for Music Teacher Education and hosted at University of North Carolina. After an introduction written by SMTE Chair, Doug Orzolek, the initial chapter will represent the...
Quality Teaching and the Capability Approach
Evaluating the work and governance of women teachers in rural Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This book provides an analytical exploration of the condition of teachers working in expanding school systems across the world, with a particular focus on the lives of women teachers in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing from award-winning research, it looks beyond the official portrayals of teachers’...
Teaching in the Fast Lane
How to Create Active Learning Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Teaching in the Fast Lane offers teachers a way to increase student engagement: an active classroom. The active classroom is about creating learning experiences differently, so that students engage in exploration of the content and take on a good share of the responsibility for their own learning....