Teaching category: 65474 books
Teaching Language With the Saints
A Read to Use Guide for Grades 4-23
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Teaching Language with the Saints highlights Canadian saints such as André Bessette, Kateri Tekakwitha and Marguerite D’Youville. Written by a veteran teacher, the book is full of practical advice with focused lesson plans, exercise templates, arts and crafts and games to grab kids’ attentions....
Creative Teaching
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This book contains an evidence-based pedagogic guide to enable any motivated teaching/training professional to be able to teach effectively and creatively. It firstly summarises the extensive research field on human psychological functioning relating to learning and how this can be fully utilised...
The Work of Language in Multicultural Classrooms
Talking Science, Writing Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
How does language comprise the implicit or explicit curriculum of teaching and learning in multicultural science settings? Building on a growing interest in the ways in which language and literacy practices interact with science teaching and learning to facilitate or obstruct successful student outcomes,...
Beginning Teaching
Stories from the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The experiences of the first years of new teachers’ professional lives are critical to their decisions about embracing or leaving the teaching profession. Writ large, these experiences have the potential to either underpin or undermine the growth and development of the teaching profession. This...
by Susan Bentham
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
How can you help students most effectively in the classroom? As a Teaching Assistant, you play a vital role in today’s schools. This fully updated new edition will help you get to grips with the main issues to do with psychology and its role in the processes of teaching and learning.
This...
by John Galloway, Hilary Norton
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The role of ICT in enhancing both teaching and learning in classrooms continues to develop, no more so than when in the hands of effective practitioners. This easy-to-use book outlines the many ways in which it can be used, both as a subject, and as a tool to support learning across the curriculum.
Now...
Teaching Each Other
Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In recent decades, educators have been seeking ways to improve outcomes for Indigenous students. Yet most Indigenous education still takes place within a theoretical framework based in Eurocentric thought.
In Teaching Each Other, Linda Goulet and Keith Goulet provide an alternative framework...
International Perspectives on Teaching the Four Skills in ELT
Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This book offers a range of perspectives and insights from around the world on the teaching and learning of listening, speaking, reading and writing. It brings together contributors from across six continents, who analyse a wide range of teaching and learning contexts, including primary, secondary,...
Global Perspectives in the Geography Curriculum
Reviewing the Moral Case for Geography
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
‘For geographers across the globe this book provides the arguments for a return to the teaching of geography and why they should reject the politicisation of the subject by education policy makers and politicians. Standish’s careful critique shows the necessity of a depoliticised geography curriculum...
Improving Children's Learning
Effective Teaching in the Primary School
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
How can teachers improve what they do in the primary classroom? Which teaching methods will help you and your pupils to perform effectively? These are the questions that every teacher will be asking him or herself in today's climate of targets and tables. Much research over recent years has focused...
Elementary Social Studies
Constructing a Powerful Approach to Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Organized around four commonplaces of education—learners and learning, subject matter, teachers and teaching, and classroom environment—Elementary Social Studies provides a rich and ambitious framework to help social studies teachers achieve powerful teaching and learning results. By blending...
by Professor Richard Rose, Marie Howley
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
`A well-written and thought-provoking book for teachers. It offers many ideas to improve inclusive practice in primary schools, to the benefit of all pupils, not only those with additional or different learning needs' - Special magazine
Written for newly-qualified teachers and students approaching...
by Diane Godwin, Margaret Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The early years are increasingly recognized as a priority time for the education of children and language and literacy are key elements of any early childhood program. This second edition provides an accessible text on the current research and thinking surrounding these areas and demonstrates clearly...
by Mehdi El Mouden
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Master's Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Art - Pedagogy, , course: Art - Visual arts general, stylistics, Literature, language: English, abstract: Art is in museums, well protected by walls of critics, ready to rebuke any curious uninformed person about art. Awe and respect are the attitudes...