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Teaching and Learning
International Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Our highly interconnected global education environment provides unprecedented opportunities for teaching professionals and educational researchers to share best practice in teaching and learning across international borders and sociocultural frontiers. This volume presents a diverse range of innovative...
by Louise Starkey
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age is for all those interested in considering the impact of emerging digital technologies on teaching and learning. It explores the concept of a digital age and perspectives of knowledge, pedagogy and practice within a digital context.
By examining teaching...
by Enakshi Sengupta, Patrick Blessinger
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
This volume is focused on the core areas of imparting education to the refugee population and highlights the recent developments intended to meet an urgent need: that of the refugees who have no or very little previous schooling and who are in need of both language learning and furthering their studies...
The Ones We Remember
Scholars Reflect on Teachers Who Made a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Paulo Freire wrote that “sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.” Sometimes, of course, this formative effect is not the result of a simple, isolated gesture but rather of a proactive and sustained series...
English as an Additional Language
Approaches to Teaching Linguistic Minority Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Do you have EAL students in your class? Would you like guidance on teaching your subject to EAL students? With linguistic diversity on the increase, teachers from all subject areas and levels of school education are working with students for whom English is an additional language, helping them to...
by Charles B. Corbin, Karen E. McConnell, Guy Le Masurier
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This innovative new textbook, with a full suite of related resources, has been created to support student development and enhancement of healthy behaviors that influence their lifestyle choices and fitness, health, and wellness.
A key feature of this curriculum is the complete integration of...
Change Is Gonna Come
Transforming Literacy Education for African American Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While many books decry the crisis in the schooling of African American children, they are often disconnected from the lived experiences and work of classroom teachers and principals. In Change Is Gonna Come, the authors look back to go forward, providing specific practices that K–12 literacy...
Teaching for Learning
101 Intentionally Designed Educational Activities to Put Students on the Path to Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Despite a growing body of research on teaching methods, instructors lack a comprehensive resource that highlights and synthesizes proven approaches. Teaching for Learning fills that gap. Each of the one hundred and one entries:
describes an approach and lists its essential features and elements
demonstrates...
Lessons from the Virtual Classroom
The Realities of Online Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Lessons from the Virtual Classroom, Second Edition
The second edition of the classic resource Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom offers a comprehensive reference for faculty to hone their skills in becoming more effective online instructors. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent...
Online Distance Education
Towards a Research Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda provides a systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas of priority in online distance education research. In each chapter an international expert or team of experts provides an overview of one relevant issue in online distance education,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Developing students’ creative problem-solving skills is paramount to today’s teachers, due to the exponentially growing demand for cognitive plasticity and critical thinking in the workforce. In today’s knowledge economy, workers must be able to participate in creative dialogue and complex problem-solving....
Biotechnology, Education and Life Politics
Debating genetic futures from school to society
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
What should individuals and society do when genetic screening becomes widely available and with its impact on current and future generations still uncertain? How can our education systems around the world respond to these developments?
Reproductive and genetic technologies (RGTs) are increasingly...
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...
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,...