Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
Teaching with DBQs
Helping Students Analyze Nonfiction and Visual Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Help your students navigate complex texts in history and social studies. This book shows you how to use document-based questions, or DBQs, to build student literacy and critical thinking skills while meeting rigorous state standards and preparing students for AP exams. DBQs can be implemented year-round...
Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty
Twenty-First-Century Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sharon Deykin Baris, Carolyn J. Brown, Lee Anne Bryan, Keith Cartwright, Stuart Christie, Mae Miller Claxton, Virginia Ottley Craighill, David A. Davis, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, Kevin Eyster, Dolores Flores-Silva, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Stephen M. Fuller,...
by Gina Donaldson, Jenny Field, Dave Harries
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
What is the role of the mathematics specialist?
What is deep subject knowledge in mathematics?
What sort of pedagogical knowledge does a mathematics specialist need?
How can you best support your colleagues to improve mathematics teaching and learning?
Becoming a Primary...
by Rudolf Steiner, René Querido
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner asserts that the unfortunate presence of dishonesty and alienation in society today cannot be addressed without a completely renewed and holistic education. He states fact that successful teaching requires a living synthesis of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This book offers an up-to-date overview of the research on philosophy of mathematics education, one of the most important and relevant areas of theory. The contributions analyse, question, challenge, and critique the claims of mathematics education practice, policy, theory and research, offering ways...
English Teachers - The Unofficial Guide
Researching the Philosophies of English Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Bethan Marshall traces the competing traditions of English teaching and considers their relevance to the current debate through an analysis of English teachers' views about themselves and their subject. The findings are based on a highly original research method in which teachers were asked to respond...
Learning and Teaching with Technology in the Knowledge Society
New Literacy, Collaboration and Digital Content
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This book discusses learning and teaching with modern technology in the new knowledge society. It focuses specifically on new literacy and technology in classroom environments. Based on a social-constructivist approach, this book covers a wide range of new technology use examples, such as participatory...
(Re)designing Narrative Writing Units for Grades 5-12
(Create a Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing Skills That Increases Student Learning and Literacy)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Teaching writing is a powerful and effective means for learning across all grade levels and disciplines. This user-friendly resource provides practical recommendations, strategies, and assessments for designing units of study that center on both narrative nonfiction and creative writing. Throughout...
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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...
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....
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...
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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....