Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants
Guidance for school leaders and teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Teaching assistants are an integral part of classroom life, yet pioneering research by the authors has shown schools are not making the most of this valued resource. Evidence shows the more support pupils receive from TAs, the less academic progress they made. Yet the reason for this has little to...
Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities
Multiple Voices of Teaching and Learning Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities: Multiple Voices of Teaching and Learning Research is designed to encourage discussion of issues surrounding the reform of classroom science discourse among teachers, teacher educators, and researchers. The contributors--some of the top educational...
Teaching and Learning Algebraic Thinking with 5- to 12-Year-Olds
The Global Evolution of an Emerging Field of Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This book highlights new developments in the teaching and learning of algebraic thinking with 5- to 12-year-olds. Based on empirical findings gathered in several countries on five continents, it provides a wealth of best practices for teaching early algebra. Building on the work of the ICME-13 (International...
by Lesley A. Rex, Laura Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
This accessible 'how to' text is about classroom interaction – how to study it and how to use that knowledge to improve teaching and learning. Actually showing what critical, constructionist, sociocultural perspectives on teaching, learning, and schooling are and what they can do, it makes discourse...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Teaching Fashion Studies is the definitive resource for instructors of fashion studies at the undergraduate level and beyond. The first of its kind, it offers extensive, practical support for both seasoned instructors and those at the start of an academic career, in addition to interdisciplinary educators...
High Expectations Teaching
How We Persuade Students to Believe and Act on "Smart Is Something You Can Get"
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
The myth of fixed intelligence debunked
For all the productive conversation around “mindsets,” what’s missing are the details of how to convince our discouraged and underperforming students that “smart is something you can get.” Until now.
With the publication of High-Expectations...
Science
Teaching School Subjects 11-19
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2005
In recognizing that new teachers often feel disempowered by the subject expertise they bring into teaching, this book not only covers the training standards for NQTs and the Induction Standards, but takes the reader beyond this by fully exploring issues relating to subject knowledge in learning to...
Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching the Small Group
(Small-Group Instruction Strategies to Differentiate Math Lessons in Elementary Classrooms)
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
When done right, small-group instruction is a powerful tool for facilitating student understanding in K-5 mathematics. Throughout the book, best practices for small-group math instruction are addressed in detail, from planning tasks that encourage deep understanding to asking effective questions to...
by Cathy Huber
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Tips for Terrific Teaching offers tried and true ideas that work for career teachers. These are practical, common sense tips for interacting with students, parents and school personnel. It suggests techniques for setting goals, testing, grading, furnishing a classroom on a budget and discipline. This...
Facilitative Collaborative Knowledge Co-Construction
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 143
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Collaborative teaching and learning has been a focus of research recently, yet it can sometimes be a challenge for multicultural students in an educational setting. This second volume of a two-volume edition helps lecturers, educators, and teachers create collaborative teaching and learning experiences...
Transforming Teaching and Learning with Active and Dramatic Approaches
Engaging Students Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014!
How can teachers transform classroom teaching and learning by making pedagogy more socially and culturally responsive, more relevant to students’ lives, and more collaborative? How can they engage disaffected students in learning and at the same time...
Science 3-13
The Past, The Present and Possible Futures
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Which factors have been influential in developing science teaching and learning for the three to thirteen age group in the last twenty years? How might these factors have an impact on the future direction of science teaching and learning for this age range into the 21st century? How can teachers cope...
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
Don’t Confuse Me with the Data, My Mind Is Made Up!
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation makes a case for the importance of developing students’ intelligent habits of mind so that they become more discriminating consumers of the information that comes at them from the Internet, social media, television and the tabloid press in this “alternate...
by Professor Simon J Catling, Tessa Willy
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
This book outlines how good teaching of primary geography can extend children's world awareness and help them make connections between their environmental and geographical experiences. Chapters offer guidance on important learning and teaching issues as well as the use and creation of resources from...