Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
The Teaching Revolution
RTI, Technology, and Differentiation Transform Teaching for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Imagine the school of the future!
The Teaching Revolution provides a futuristic and provocative discussion on the combining of three major instructional innovations—RTI, technology, and differentiation. Drawing on the growing 21st-century skills movement, the text engagingly weaves these...
Teaching Language and Literature in Elementary Classrooms
A Resource Book for Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
The goal of this book -- a theoretically based, well-organized, useful guide for teaching -- is to help the beginning teacher create a classroom environment that integrates literacy development with learning in all areas of the curriculum. The major components of an integrated language program are...
Teacher's Field Guide
7 Truths About Teaching to Help You Start off Strong, Avoid Burnout, and Stay in Love with Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Fifty percent of new teachers leave the profession within the first five years.
Of those who stay, most go through periods of burnout.
Teachers everywhere start with high hopes of making a difference, but quickly get consumed with all of the unexpected demands, leaving them exhausted...
The New Science of Teaching and Learning
Using the Best of Mind, Brain, and Education Science in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers a definitive, scientifically grounded guide for better teaching and learning practices. Drawing from thousands of documents and the opinions of recognized experts worldwide, it explains in straight talk the new Mind, Brain, and Education Science—a field that has grown out of...
Teaching That Works
Effective Practice Combined with Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Teaching that Works: Effective Practice Combined with Theory and Research is a practical, teacher friendly examination of the ways that a comprehensive approach to all of the aspects of teaching, working together, can achieve results greater than the sum of the individual parts. Traditional teacher...
The Highly Effective Teacher
7 Classroom-Tested Practices That Foster Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
What are the secrets to unlocking student success? And what can teachers do to get better at helping students develop deep understanding of content, attain higher-order thinking skills, and become secure, confident, and capable learners?
In this book, teacher and professor Jeff Marshall showcases...
First Contact
Teaching and Learning in Introductory Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The Introduction to Sociology course is usually the first contact that students have with the discipline of sociology. This course can determine whether students take other sociology courses or learn to use sociology in their lives as adults and citizens.First Contact identifies important issues facing...
Arts for Change
Teaching Outside the Frame
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Beverly Naidus shares her passion and strategies for teaching socially engaged art, offering, as well, a short history of the field and the candid views of more than thirty colleagues.
A provocative, personal look at the motivations and challenges of teaching socially engaged arts, Arts for...
Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics
Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Studies of teachers in the U.S. often document insufficient subject matter knowledge in mathematics. Yet, these studies give few examples of the knowledge teachers need to support teaching, particularly the kind of teaching demanded by recent reforms in mathematics education. Knowing and Teaching...
by John Haddon
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Teaching Reading Shakespeare is warmly and clearly communicated, and gives ownership of ideas and activities to teachers by open and explicit discussion. John Haddon creates a strong sense of community with teachers, raising many significant and difficult issues, and performing a vital and timely...
The Course Reflection Project
Faculty Reflections on Teaching ServiceLearning
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Servicelearning is entering a postinitiatory phase. At tertiary institutions of all types and sizes, servicelearning programs are common and servicelearning requirements for graduation are growing in popularity. Taken together alongside continued faculty interest in effective teaching these factors...
Photography 4.0: A Teaching Guide for the 21st Century
Educators Share Thoughts and Assignments
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
An invaluable resource for photography educators, this volume is a survey of photographic education in the first decade of the 21st Century. Drawing upon her 25 years of teaching experience and her professional network, Michelle Bogre spoke with 47 photo educators from all over the world to compile...
by Rachel Shirley
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
This invaluable book for oil painting teachers opens up with the line: ‘The art teacher seldom knows the nature of the art group that is going to materialise on the first session of an oil painting course.’
With this inevitability, this book prepares the inexperienced art teacher for delivering...
Teaching Crowds
Learning and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology, learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured and delivered in closed contexts,...