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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This book introduces readers to the latest research and findings from projects focusing on teaching education for sustainable development at universities. In particular, it describes practical experiences, outline courses, training schemes and other initiatives aimed at promoting better teaching on...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
One of the most important aspects of a comprehensive education involves teaching students to analyze arguments and form their own opinions based on available information. Visual and graphical mapping strategies are useful in helping students to consider problems from a variety of perspectives. Cases...
Digital Teaching Platforms
Customizing Classroom Learning for Each Student
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Digital Teaching Platforms is an essential read for those who believe that education needs to be reimagined to prepare students for tomorrow. Dede and Richards provide a compelling collection of some of the best minds in education and education technology to describe how educators, policymakers,...
Strengthening Teaching and Learning in Research Universities
Strategies and Initiatives for Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book offers a range of approaches and specific examples of how a sample of internationally leading research-intensive universities, from a variety of regions around the world, work to improve teaching and learning. It describes and analyzes broad university initiatives and approaches that have...
Foundations of Primary Mathematics Education
An introduction to curriculum, pedagogy and content
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Many pre-service teachers admit to feeling unsure about the mathematics they will have to teach in primary school. Others find it difficult to know how to apply the theories of teaching and learning they study in other courses to the teaching of mathematics.
This book begins by outlining some...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
As new and emerging technologies continue to become more familiar to educators and the education system, the vast opportunities for web-based learning has transformed the ideals of the traditional classroom. Pedagogical Considerations and Opportunities for Teaching and Learning on the Web concentrates...
Christian Faith and English Language Teaching and Learning
Research on the Interrelationship of Religion and ELT
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Ideological and educational-political aspects of the link between language and faith—especially between Global English and Christianity—is a topic of growing interest in the field of English language teaching. This book explores the possible role and impact of teachers’ and students’ faith...
Teaching in Transnational Higher Education
Enhancing Learning for Offshore International Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Teaching in Transnational Higher Education examines current trends and challenges that face students, teachers and institutions of higher education around the globe. This book comes at a pivotal moment where many universities are offering their courses in offshore locations. Students who could once...
by Shelonda Richardson, Tamira Cole
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Easy Teaching: The Recipe Guide for the Classroom
It's midnight and once again you still have not completed your lesson plans. The anxiety has cranked to an infinite degree! You sit and take another sip of caffeine. "Didn't I teach that on Friday?" "Oh no we had a fire drill...
Teaching Challenging Texts
Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Teaching Challenging Texts shows how to increase reading comprehension and enhance student engagement, even with the most challenging texts. Every chapter features ready-to-use, research-based lessons, replete with explicit instructions, handouts, Common Core correlations, and assessments.
"Exploring...
Teaching the Holocaust
Practical approaches for ages 11–18
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Teaching the Holocaust * *is an important but often challenging task for those involved in modern Holocaust education. What content should be included and what should be left out? How can film and literature be integrated into the curriculum? What is the best way to respond to students who resist...
Teaching Research Processes
The Faculty Role in the Development of Skilled Student Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Information literacy may be defined as the ability to identify a research problem, decide the kinds of information needed to tackle it, find the information efficiently, evaluate the information, and apply it to the problem at hand. Teaching Research Processes suggests a novel way in which information...
by Dustin De Felice, Ashley Kendell, James Fetterman
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Teaching with Technology 2013: Educators Talking TechWritten By Sheila Conrad, Raneen Elbakry, James Fetterman, Julie Fleischman, Ashley Kendell & Kathryn WellerEdited By Dustin De FeliceCover Design by Julie FleischmanIn this volume, you will read the words and stories of educators...
East Meets West in Teacher Preparation
Crossing Chinese and American Borders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
East Meets West in Teacher Preparation gives voice to an increasing number of teacher educators from China teaching in America’s universities. With this unique book, American educators can learn about Chinese educational thinking and practices directly from those who have personal and professional...