Study Teaching category: 6537 books
by Gail Craswell, Megan Poore
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
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Writing for Academic Success** is a vital practical guide for any ambitious student. If you seek to manage your writing effectively, reduce stress, and improve your confidence and efficiency, this book is for you. The authors show you...
by Mary Boyd Ratzer, Paige Jaeger
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are putting educators under pressure to examine what works and what doesn't. Even with the best efforts, integrating new strategies into daily practice in the classroom or library can be frustrating. This book will help. Providing a professional development toolkit...
English Rocks! 101 ESL Games, Activities, and Lesson Plans
Teaching ESL, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
They’re bored, they’re tired, and they’d rather be anywhere else. That’s no way to teach an ESL class, and no way to spend your time teaching abroad. So why not get things moving and shaking with something they actually like for a change?You can do just that with English Rocks! 101 ESL...
by Mike Swedenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
The U.S. Citizenship Services (USCIS) administers a verbal test to all immigrants applying for citizenship. This study guide tutors those whose primary language is Spanish. The questions have been selected from questions used on past exams by the USCIS.
These are the 100 sample questions and...
Understanding Language Classroom Contexts
The Starting Point for Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Arguably the whole point of education is to effect change in what people know and are able to do. Globalization has contributed to a common perception worldwide of the need to introduce changes to the teaching and learning of languages. The success of many attempts to do so has been limited by insufficient...
by Dr. Sarah J. Shin
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book explores the experiences of men and women who train to teach ESL as a second career. Drawing from in-depth interviews and observations of 30 students (aged 45 to 73) in a TESOL graduate program, this book provides portraits of these individuals as they develop as teachers. It describes the...
How to Study
Suggestions for High-School and College Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
A complete guide for successful studying, How to Study is concise, practical, time-tested, and free of gimmicks. Designed originally for freshmen at the University of Chicago, this smart book has helped generations of students throughout the country improve their skills in learning quickly and effectively....
Everyone Can Write
Essays toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2000
With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques--liberated generations of students and teachers from the emphasis on formal principles of grammar that...
Characterizing Pedagogical Flow
An Investigation of Mathematics and Science Teaching in Six Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Characterizing Pedagogical Flow presents conclusions from a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research project blending quantitative and qualitative approaches through a discourse methodology. The work produced portraits of mathematics and science education that were dramatically different for each...
by Gordon W. Green
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
You study hard. You memorize. You work at a problem over and over until it feels like your head is going to explode. You think, finally I'm ready for the big test. And you still don't make the grade. Relax.
The truth is, Dr. Gordon Green knows exactly how you feel. He was a bright student....
The Language of Art
Reggio-Inspired Studio Practices in Early Childhood Settings
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
Incorporate inquiry-based practices into your early childhood classroom or family child care program. Inspired by an approach to teaching and learning born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, The Language of Art emphasizes investigation anchored by drawing, painting, and other art activities. It provides:advice...
Free-Hand Drawing
"A Manual for Teachers & Students"
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
DRAWING is the expression of an idea: “Art must come from within, and not from without. This fact has led some to assert that the study of nature is not essential to the student, and that careful training in the study of the representation of the actual appearance is mechanical and harmful. Such...
Pronunciation for English as an International Language
From research to practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Pronunciation plays a crucial role in learning English as an international language, yet often remains marginalised by educators due to a lack of required phonetic and phonological knowledge. Pronunciation for English as an International Language bridges the gap between phonetics, phonology and pronunciation...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand and Passing, published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, fell out of print and were thus little known for many years. Now widely available and taught, Quicksand and Passing challenge conventional "tragic mulatta" and "passing" narratives. In part 1, "Materials,"...