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Leading Technology-Rich Schools
Award-Winning Models for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely book shows how award-winning secondary schools and districts are successfully using technology and making systemic changes to increase student engagement, improve achievement, and re-invigorate the teaching and learning process. Through in-depth case studies, we see how experienced school...
by Daniel P. Liston, Kenneth M. Zeichner
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This is the second volume in the "Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling" series. Reflection in the area of culture and teaching necessarily takes teachers on both an introspective journey and an examination of the social conditions of schooling. There is a need to know...
Teaching Today
Becoming the Candidate of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
N.E.S.C.O. has published an outstanding book designed especially to help candidates seeking teaching positions. "Teaching Today: Becoming the Candidate of Choice" outlines the skills and knowledge expected of qualified teacher candidates. "Teaching Today" explains the way candidates...
by Carrie Wingate, John Donohue, Eliot Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
In contrast to the overabundance of writings about martial arts that are often promotional and misinformative, there are rare works by scholars that are praiseworthy for their sincere, unbiased approach to writing. This is the very definition of “scholarly.” This two-volume...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
How can I develop my identity as a teacher? How does engaging in research benefit my own teaching practice?
Becoming a successful teacher in secondary education requires a strong understanding of a wide range of professional teaching issues, including practical concerns such as curriculum development...
by Jeannie Oakes, Martin Lipton, Lauren Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Teaching to Change the World is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, social justice-oriented introduction to education and teaching, and the challenges and opportunities they present. Both foundational and practical, the chapters are organized around conventional topics but in a way that consistently integrates...
The Moral Work of Teaching and Teacher Education
Preparing and Supporting Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What makes teaching a moral endeavor? How can we prepare classroom practitioners for engaging in that moral endeavor in meaningful and effective ways? This volume brings together leading scholar who draw upon both their academic expertise and substantial wisdom of practice to offer a variety of perspectives...
Multicultural Science Education
Preparing Teachers for Equity and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This book offers valuable guidance for science teacher educators looking for ways to facilitate preservice and inservice teachers’ pedagogy relative to teaching students from underrepresented and underserved populations in the science classroom. It also provides solutions that will better equip...
by M.G. Aune, Bruce E. Brandt, Douglas Bruster
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing...
Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains
Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
If the difference between a student's success and failure were something specific you could teach, wouldn't you?
Metacognition is exactly that—a tool that helps students unlock their brain's amazing power and take control of their learning. Educational researchers and professional developers...
Curriculum Models for the 21st Century
Using Learning Technologies in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Changing student profiles and the increasing availability of mainstream and specialized learning technologies are stretching the traditional face-to-face models of teaching and learning in higher education. Institutions, too, are facing far-reaching systemic changes which are placing strains on existing...
The Truth about Teaching
An evidence-informed guide for new teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
As a teacher, you are a magician. You conjure understanding where there was none.
Drawing on years of experience teaching in a diverse range of schools and powered by a nuanced understanding of educational research, Greg Ashman presents the most vital ideas that you need to know in order...
Team Teaching
Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
For those considering adopting team teaching, or interested in reviewing their own practice, this book offers an overview of this pedagogy, its challenges and rewards, and a rich range of examples in which teachers present and reflect upon their approaches. The interaction of two teachers — both the...
by Peter Burrows
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This book offers a whole school approach to the teaching of grammar and punctuation that is fully matched to the demands of the English grammar and punctuation test and the new curriculum. With the shift towards elegant, well-constructed sentences, it offers the busy teacher three simple steps to...