Teaching category: 65474 books
Teaching with DBQs
Helping Students Analyze Nonfiction and Visual Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Help your students navigate complex texts in history and social studies. This book shows you how to use document-based questions, or DBQs, to build student literacy and critical thinking skills while meeting rigorous state standards and preparing students for AP exams. DBQs can be implemented year-round...
A Guide to Teaching Effective Seminars
Conversation, Identity, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
A Guide to Teaching Effective Seminars provides college and university faculty with a new approach to thinking about their teaching and helps them develop a deeper understanding of conversation itself. Seminars often inspire collaborative learning and produce rich educational environments, yet even...
Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty
Twenty-First-Century Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sharon Deykin Baris, Carolyn J. Brown, Lee Anne Bryan, Keith Cartwright, Stuart Christie, Mae Miller Claxton, Virginia Ottley Craighill, David A. Davis, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, Kevin Eyster, Dolores Flores-Silva, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Stephen M. Fuller,...
Learning to Teach in the Digital Age
New Materialities and Maker Paradigms in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Learning to Teach in the Digital Age tells the story of a group of K–12 teachers as they began to connect with digital making and learning pedagogies. Guiding questions at the heart of this qualitative case study asked how teaching practices engaged with and responded to the maker movement and digital...
by Gina Donaldson, Jenny Field, Dave Harries
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
What is the role of the mathematics specialist?
What is deep subject knowledge in mathematics?
What sort of pedagogical knowledge does a mathematics specialist need?
How can you best support your colleagues to improve mathematics teaching and learning?
Becoming a Primary...
by Rudolf Steiner, René Querido
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education. He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of...
by Gladis Kersaint, Denisse R. Thompson, Mariana Petkova
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Today's mathematics classrooms increasingly include students for whom English is a second language. Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners provides readers a comprehensive understanding of both the challenges that face English language learners (ELLs) and ways in which educators might address...
Teaching and Researching the Pronunciation of English
Studies in Honour of Włodzimierz Sobkowiak
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The book contains contributions from practitioners and theoreticians who explore the pronunciation of English from various perspectives: phonetic, phonological, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic. In accordance with the unifying theme of the volume, individual contributions investigate the characteristics...
by Socorro G. Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Culturally responsive pedagogy, literacy, and English learner education expert Socorro Herrera has updated this bestseller to clarify, focus, and redefine concepts for the continued professional development of educators serving culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) populations. Teaching strategies...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This book offers an up-to-date overview of the research on philosophy of mathematics education, one of the most important and relevant areas of theory. The contributions analyse, question, challenge, and critique the claims of mathematics education practice, policy, theory and research, offering ways...
English Teachers - The Unofficial Guide
Researching the Philosophies of English Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Bethan Marshall traces the competing traditions of English teaching and considers their relevance to the current debate through an analysis of English teachers' views about themselves and their subject. The findings are based on a highly original research method in which teachers were asked to respond...
Learning and Teaching with Technology in the Knowledge Society
New Literacy, Collaboration and Digital Content
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This book discusses learning and teaching with modern technology in the new knowledge society. It focuses specifically on new literacy and technology in classroom environments. Based on a social-constructivist approach, this book covers a wide range of new technology use examples, such as participatory...
(Re)designing Narrative Writing Units for Grades 5-12
(Create a Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing Skills That Increases Student Learning and Literacy)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Teaching writing is a powerful and effective means for learning across all grade levels and disciplines. This user-friendly resource provides practical recommendations, strategies, and assessments for designing units of study that center on both narrative nonfiction and creative writing. Throughout...
Teaching Young Adult Literature
Developing Students as World Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Teaching Young Adult Literature: Developing Students As World Citizens (by Thomas W. Bean, Judith Dunkerly-Bean, and Helen Harper) is a middle and secondary school methods text that introduces pre-service teachers in teacher credential programs and in-service teachers pursuing a Masters degree in...