Teaching category: 65474 books
Eight Essentials for Empowered Teaching and Learning, K-8
Bringing Out the Best in Your Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Inspirational and practical, this book focuses on the quality of teaching and learning in elementary and middle school classrooms and helps teachers and students find more joy, satisfaction, and meaning in their work.
Experienced teacher Steve Reifman defines a quality classroom in reader-friendly...
Models of Teaching
Connecting Student Learning With Standards
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2007
Models of Teaching: Connecting Student Learning with Standards features classic and contemporary models of teaching appropriate to elementary and secondary settings. Authors Jeanine M. Dell'Olio and Tony Donk use detailed case studies to discuss 10 models of teaching and demonstrate how they can be...
Researching edTPA Promises and Problems
Perspectives from English as an Additional Language, English Language Arts, and World Language Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Teacher effectiveness and licensure in the United States continue to be scrutinized at the state and national levels. At present, 40 states plus the District of Columbia have adopted edTPA to inform initial teacher licensure and/or certification decisions (American Association of Colleges for Teacher...
by Victoria Jaquiss, Diane Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The SEND Code of Practice (2015) has reinforced the requirement that all teachers must meet the needs of all learners. This topical book provides practical, tried and tested strategies and resources that will support teachers in making music lessons accessible and exciting for all pupils, including...
Where there's a Will... Motivation and Volition in College Teaching and Learning
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 152
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Motivating students – a primary goal of education - is complex, to say the least. This issue focuses on a model for motivation, volition, and performance that acknowledges the importance of volition as action subsequent to motivation: action that leads to improved performance.
This MVP...
Essentials of Teaching Adapted Physical Education
Diversity, Culture, and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Essentials of Teaching Adapted Physical Education: Diversity, Culture, and Inclusion offers a wealth of knowledge for teaching today's diverse student population, including those with disabilities. Readers will learn how to teach a variety of students, organize learning within various curricular models,...
Hybrid Teaching and Learning
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 149
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Hybrid, or blended, classrooms are expanding on campuses across the United States (and internationally). Intentionally combining in-class instruction with online activities not only aids student learning, it also provides more self-directed, technology-mediated learning experiences for students who...
by Ann Lewin-Benham
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In her latest book, bestselling author Ann Lewin-Benham describes eight techniques that foster intentional and reflective classroom practice. She presents over 70 novel exercises to help teachers learn to use body, face, hands, voice, eyes, and word choices to precisely convey meaning. Some exercises...
by Erin Muschla, Judith A. Muschla, Gary Robert Muschla
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Start young children off with Common Core math using these innovative activities
Teaching the Common Core Math Standards with Hands-On Activities, Grades K-2 provides teachers with the help they need to begin teaching to the new standards right away. The book outlines the Common Core math standards...
A Concise Guide to Improving Student Learning
Six Evidence-Based Principles and How to Apply Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
This concise guidebook is intended for faculty who are interested in engaging their students and developing deep and lasting learning, but do not have the time to immerse themselves in the scholarship of teaching and learning.Acknowledging the growing body of peer-reviewed literature on practices that...
by Sally Neaum
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
The teaching of phonics is now strongly embedded in early literacy teaching and early years settings, and it has been shown to be an important part of becoming literate. There is, however, significant concern about the formalizing of phonics teaching for very young children.
So what should...
Aspects of Teaching Secondary Modern Foreign Languages
Perspectives on Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This lively and inspiring collection of readings is divided into three sections: 'Developing teaching strategies and effective classroom management' covers all major aspects of classroom practice; 'Planning, evaluating and assessing MFL learning' is a guide to the day to day requirements and practicalities...
Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies
What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Randi Stone transports readers into the lively classrooms of award-winning teachers in this collection of outstanding methods for teaching social studies to diverse elementary, middle, and high school learners.
Like its companion volumes for teaching writing, mathematics, and science, Best...
by John K. Gilbert, Rosária Justi
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
This book argues that modelling should be a component of all school curricula that aspire to provide ‘authentic science education for all’. The literature on modelling is reviewed and a ‘model of modelling’ is proposed. The conditions for the successful implementation of the ‘model of modelling’...