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Student Engagement Techniques
A Handbook for College Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Keeping students involved, motivated, and actively learning is challenging educators across the country,yet good advice on how to accomplish this has not been readily available. Student Engagement Techniques is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students...
Math Puzzles and Brainteasers, Grades 6-8
Over 300 Puzzles that Teach Math and Problem-Solving Skills
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
Number puzzles, spatial/visual puzzles, cryptograms, Sudoku, Kokuro, logic puzzles, and word games like Frame Games are all a great way to teach math and problem-solving skills to elementary and middle school students. In these two new collections, puzzle master Terry Stickels provides puzzles and...
Reading Reconsidered
A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
TEACH YOUR STUDENTS TO READ LIKE CHAMPIONS—WITH RIGOR, INDEPENDENCE, PRECISION, AND INSIGHT
The world we are preparing our students to succeed in is one bound together by words and phrases. Our students learn their literature, history, math, science, or art via a firm foundation of strong...
Teach Like a Champion Field Guide 2.0
A Practical Resource to Make the 62 Techniques Your Own
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The must-have companion workbook to the bestselling Teach Like a Champion 2.0
Teach Like a Champion Field Guide 2.0 is the teacher's hands-on guide to improving their craft. In Teach Like a Champion 2.0, veteran teaching coach Doug Lemov updated, improved upon, and replaced the original edition...
by Jeremy S. Hyman, Jeffrey Durso-Finley, Jonah T. Hyman
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Two award-winning professors, a former admissions officer at a major university (now a counselor at a prestigious high school), and a gifted high school senior (now in the throes of the college admissions process himself) team up to offer you over 600 tips, techniques, and strategies to help you get...
Academic Advising Approaches
Strategies That Teach Students to Make the Most of College
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Strong academic advising has been found to be a key contributor to student persistence (Center for Public Education, 2012), and many are expected to play an advising role, including academic, career, and faculty advisors; counselors; tutors; and student affairs staff. Yet there is little training...
Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Praise for Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs
"An essential guide to the thorny task of not only developing successful first-year programs, the critical building blocks for student college completion, but also sustaining them over time. It should be at the top of...
Making Thinking Visible
How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities
Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics...
The Law of Higher Education, 5th Edition
Student Version
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Based on the fifth edition of Kaplin and Lee’s indispensable guide to the law that bears on the conduct of higher education, The Law of Higher Education, Fifth Edition: Student Version provides an up-to-date textbook, reference, and guide for coursework in higher education law and programs preparing...
How to Teach English Language Learners
Effective Strategies from Outstanding Educators, Grades K-6
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
This hands-on book offers teachers a much-needed resource that will help maximize learning for English Language Learners (ELLs). How to Teach English Language Learners draws on two wide-ranging teacher quality studies and profiles eight educators who have achieved exceptional results with their ELL...
by Tonette S. Rocco, Timothy Gary Hatcher
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing is a groundbreaking resource that offers emerging and experienced scholars from all disciplines a comprehensive review of the essential elements needed to craft scholarly papers and other writing suitable for submission to academic journals. The authors...
Because Writing Matters
Improving Student Writing in Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
This updated edition of the best-selling book Because Writing Matters reflects the most recent research and reports on the need for teaching writing, and it includes new sections on writing and English language learners, technology, and the writing process.
by Judith A. Muschla, Gary Robert Muschla, Erin Muschla
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Helpful advice for teaching Common Core Math Standards to middle-school students
The new Common Core State Standards for Mathematics have been formulated to provide students with instruction that will help them acquire a thorough knowledge of math at their grade level, which will in turn enable...
by Torria Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Update the visual design of your course in pedagogically sound ways
Visual Design for Online Learning spotlights the role that visual elements play in the online learning environment. Written for both new and experienced instructors, the book guides you in adding pedagogically relevant visual...