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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education, edited by Joanne Brownlee, Gregg Schraw and Donna Berthelsen, provides an international perspective on teachers’ personal epistemology, or beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing. Research from The Netherlands, Cyprus, Australia, United States,...
Teaching in the Cracks
Openings and Opportunities for Student-Centered, Action-Focused Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This engaging book shows how teachers and schools are creating emergent, democratic, progressive education amidst the current context of high stakes accountability. In this follow-up to his bestseller, Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way, Schultz explores how today’s rhetoric and restrictive...
by Russell Grigg, Sioned V Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
The second edition of Teaching Primary Humanities, which focuses on history, geography and religious education, has been fully updated to reflect policy developments and recent curriculum changes throughout the United Kingdom. The authors reaffirm the importance of teaching the humanities in a fast-changing...
Teaching on a Shoestring
An A-Z of everyday objects to enthuse and engage pupils and extend education in the early years
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
In Teaching on a Shoestring: An A–Z of everyday objects to enthuse and engage children and extend learning in the early years, Russell Grigg and Helen Lewis explore the educational value of familiar objects and suggest practical activities to help develop young learners’ cross-curricular skills....
The Tao of Teaching
The Ageless Wisdom of Taoism and the Art of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
The Tao of Teaching is for teachers, parents, and any others who are looking for a book of wisdom on how to deal with people, especially children, in a learning environment. The Tao of Teaching is written in the same style as the Tao Te Ching, and gives examples from the classrooms of three present-day...
Proof and Proving in Mathematics Education
The 19th ICMI Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
One of the most significant tasks facing mathematics educators is to understand the role of mathematical reasoning and proving in mathematics teaching, so that its presence in instruction can be enhanced. This challenge has been given even greater importance by the assignment to proof of a more prominent...
Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education
Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
(Orginally published in 2008) The goal of AMTE Monograph 4, "Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education: Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching", is to provide detailed accounts of case use that will inform the mathematics teacher education community on the range of ways in which cases can...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Issues in Art and Design Teaching draws together a range of pedagogical and ethical issues for trainee and newly qualified teachers of art and design, and their mentors in art and design education. Arguing for a critical approach to the art and design curriculum, the collection encourages students...
by Richard Fox, Jane Medwell, Louise Poulson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book discusses the implications arising from the authors' research into what constitutes an effective teacher of literacy. They have been able to identify what effective teachers know, understand and do which enable them to put effective teaching of literacy into practice in the primary phase....
Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades
A K-16 Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
A Co-Publication of Routledge for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
In recent years there has been increased interest in the nature and role of proof in mathematics education; with many mathematics educators advocating that proof should be a central part of the mathematics...
Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity
An ICMI Study Book 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
No one disputes how important it is, in today's world, to prepare students to un derstand mathematics as well as to use and communicate mathematics in their future lives. That task is very difficult, however. Refocusing curricula on funda mental concepts, producing new teaching materials, and...
FAQs for TAs
Practical Advice and Working Solutions for Teaching Assistants
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
FAQs for TAs is a friendly and accessible guide covering the core questions that both new and existing teaching assistants may have about their jobs.
Arranged in question and answer format, it covers all the essential information that teaching assistants need to know in an easily accessible...
Men and the Classroom
Gender Imbalances in Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2005
The teaching of young children has long been dominated by women. This global phenomenon is firmly rooted in issues related to economic development, urbanization, the position of women in society, cultural definitions of masculinity and the values of children and childcare. Yet, amongst the media scare...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Teaching and Measuring Cognitive Readiness presents theoretical and empirical findings regarding cognitive readiness and assessments of their impact on adult learning. The term readiness is used in assessing student preparation for K-12 schools, while in the military and in industry, "readiness"...