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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...
by Danièle Bourdais, Sue Finnie
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Games for Teaching Primary French by Danièle Bourdais and Sue Finnie is a practical toolkit containing a wide variety of fun and engaging games for all abilities, from complete beginners to more competent learners. It includes a wide range of games, from 5-minute starters or plenaries to longer,...
by Andrew Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
A Critique of Pure Teaching Methods and the Case of Synthetic Phonics examines how research into the effectiveness of teaching methods can and should relate to what takes place in the classroom. The discussion brings to light some important features of the way we classify teaching activities. The...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This book examines the implementation of inquiry-based approaches in science teaching and learning. It explores the ways that those approaches could be promoted across various contexts in Europe through initial teacher preparation, induction programmes and professional development activities. It...
Teaching Graphic Design
Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
More Than Sixty Course Syllabi That Bring the New Complexity of Graphic Design to Light
All graphic designers teach, yet not all graphic designers are teachers. Teaching is a special skill requiring talent, instinct, passion, and organization. But while talent, instinct, and passion are inherent,...
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,...
by Denise Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In today’s high-stakes testing environment, integrating technology into the curriculum is often seen as something “extra” or for use with a few special projects. With the growth in Internet use by even the youngest children, educators urgently need a practical introduction to online...