Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
Ethical English
Teaching and Learning in English as Spiritual, Moral and Religious Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Ethical English addresses the 'ethos' of English teaching and draws attention to its 'spirit' and fundamental character, identifying the features that English teaching must exhibit if it is to continue to sustain us morally as a liberal art and to provide the learners of increasingly plural societies...
Teach Like a Champion 2.0
62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
One of the most influential teaching guides ever—updated!
Teach Like a Champion 2.0 is a complete update to the international bestseller. This teaching guide is a must-have for new and experienced teachers alike. Over 700,000 teachers around the world already know how the techniques in this...
by Jay Parini
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom...
Teaching Middle School Language Arts
Incorporating Twenty-first Century Literacies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Teaching Middle School Language Arts is the first book on teaching middle school language arts for multiple intelligences and related 21st century literacies in technologically and ethnically diverse communities. More than 670,000 middle school teachers (grades six through eight) are responsible for...
How to Teach without Instructing
29 Smart Rules for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
“Teaching” and “learning” are two interrelated terms used to express our thinking about a major aspect of human development. However, didactics developed into an art, the “art” of teaching, while the processes of learning were neglected and not researched. Nowadays, many people perceive...
The Lazy Teacher's Handbook - New Edition
How your students learn more when you teach less
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
It’s more than six years since the bestselling Lazy Teacher’s Handbook was first published and Jim Smith’s Lazy Teaching philosophy has developed significantly in that time. This new revised edition details Jim’s latest thinking on how to be the best lazy, but outstanding, teacher you can...
The Joy of Teaching
A Practical Guide for New College Instructors
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, The Joy of Teaching provides helpful guidance for new instructors developing and teaching their first college courses.
Award-winning professor Peter Filene proposes that teaching should not be like a baseball game...
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Geneva Gay is renowned for her contributions to multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, professional learning, and classroom instruction. Gay has made many important revisions to keep her foundational, award-winning text relevant for today’s diverse student population,...
What Counts in Teaching Mathematics
Adding Value to Self and Content
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
In this book, internationally recognised scholars and practitioners synthesise current practice and research developments in the area of mathematics teacher education and mathematics education. The book’s two sections examine the role and significance of collaborations and critical friends in the...
by John R. Wiens, Garth Pickard, Clive Beck
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Inspiration and Innovation in Teaching and Teacher Education is an edited collection that offers a variety of conceptual and research-based discussions on teaching and teacher education in Canada and internationally. The ideas, research, and practices presented in the book focus on three broad themes:...
by Wynne Harlen OBE
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Now in a fully updated seventh edition, The Teaching of Science in Primary Schools provides essential information for students, trainee, and practising teachers about the why, what and how of teaching primary science. Paying particular attention to inquiry-based teaching and learning, the book recognises...
Motivating Mathematics
Engaging Teachers and Engaged Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Motivating Mathematics demonstrates that pupils can be motivated by being given the Big Picture, including a clearer picture of the nature of maths, and by linking topics to the sciences, rather than teaching each topic in isolation. The author emphasises the many virtues of problem-solving, strongly...
Cinematic Social Studies
A Resource for Teaching and Learning Social Studies With Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Action! Film is a common and powerful element in the social studies classroom and Cinematic Social Studies explores teaching and learning social studies with film. Teaching with film is a prominent teaching strategy utilized by many teachers on a regular basis. Cinematic Social Studies moves readers...
by Robert Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
In this book, you will learn a wide variety of teaching techniques and strategies for teaching children from ages 4-11. The book is full of lesson plans, games and activities for current or aspiring teachers who are teaching children at kindergarten and early primary grade levels and whose first language...