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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
A companion to Aspects of Teaching Secondary Geography, Teaching Geography in the Secondary School: A Reader brings together a wide range of key writings that look at central issues, debates and ideas surrounding geography education today. It encourages students to reflect critically upon the issues...
by Jayne Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Raising standards in mathematics is high on government education agendas and remains a key priority for schools. Schools strive to provide an outstanding education for their pupils preparing them to compete not only in a national but an international market. At the heart of this is the classroom and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
To maintain their status in the global marketplace, it is imperative for emerging economies to focus on the creation of high quality products in order to compete with organizations worldwide. To increase their economic momentum, it is necessary to utilize innovative and creative strategies to discovery...
by Keith Appleyard, Nancy Appleyard
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This essential text provides an accessible and up to date critical analysis of professionalism for student teachers and practitioners within the Further Education (FE) sector. Professional values, knowledge, understanding and skills form the core of the standards against which teachers are measured...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Technology use has become increasingly popular in education. Due to cultural influences and access issues, advances in digital teaching and learning in Chinese education have been slow; however, certain regions have been able to successfully integrate technology into their curriculum and instruction...
Latinos/as and Mathematics Education
Research on Learning and Teaching in Classrooms and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This book that explores the mathematics education of Latinos/as in 13 original research studies. Each chapter represents research that grounds mathematics instruction for Latinos/as in the resources to be found in culture and language. By inverting the deficit perspective, this volume redresses the...
Children's Literature and Learner Empowerment
Children and Teenagers in English Language Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Children's literature can be a powerful way to encourage and empower EFL students but is less commonly used in the classroom than adult literature. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to children's and young adult literature in EFL teaching. It demonstrates the complexity of children's...
Mathematics Education at Highly Effective Schools That Serve the Poor
Strategies for Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book presents research findings about school-level and district-level practices and successful strategies employed in mathematics education by highly effective schools that serve high-poverty communities. It includes both the theory and practice of creating highly effective schools in these communities.
In...
Preparing Mathematics and Science Teachers for Diverse Classrooms
Promising Strategies for Transformative Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
This book provides a theoretical basis and practical strategies to counter resistance to learning to teach for diversity (in culturally and gender-inclusive ways), and resistance to teaching for understanding (using student-centered and inquiry-based pedagogical approaches). Teacher educators from...
Un-Standardizing Curriculum
Multicultural Teaching in the Standards-Based Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this Second Edition of her bestseller, Christine Sleeter and new co-author Judith Flores Carmona show how educators can learn to teach rich, academically rigorous, multicultural curricula within a standards-based environment. The authors have meticulously updated each chapter to address current...
An Introduction to Career Learning & Development 11-19
Perspectives, Practice and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
An Introduction to Career Learning and Development 11-19 is an indispensible source of support and guidance for all those who need to know why and how career learning and development should be planned, developed and delivered effectively to meet the needs of young people.
It is a comprehensive...
Improving What is Learned at University
An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Received the ‘highly commended’ award by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2010.
What is learned in universities today? Is it what students expect to learn? Is it what universities say they learn? How far do the answers to questions such as these differ according...
Groundwork
A Practitioner’S Guide to Building Alternative Education Programs
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Fred Gann, founder of four alternative education programs, believes that all true alternative education programs exist for one fundamental purpose: to make a positive difference in a students life. In Groundwork, Gann delivers a roadmap to re-engage disenfranchised students through an effective alternative...
by Lynn Machin, Duncan Hindmarch, Sandra Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
A complete, all-in-one guide to the new Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training, suitable for use with any awarding organisation. It offers an easy-to-understand structure, incorporates key information on reflective practice and study skills, and provides full coverage of all the mandatory units....