Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
by Derek Cabrera, Laura Colosi
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Cutting-edge skills for twenty-first-century learners and educators.
Designed to transform teaching practice, this book provides the tools to understand thinking patterns and how learning actually happens. It empowers teachers to structure learning in the most meaningful way, helping students explore new paths to knowledge.
Holistic Pedagogy
The Self and Quality Willed Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
This book illuminates what must always be at the heart of powerful schooling and authentic learning. Its focus is on free learning, with an emphasis on early East Asian thought as a vehicle through which learning may emerge. The volume describes learning as helping the learner become more conscious,...
Mathematics Education and Technology-Rethinking the Terrain
The 17th ICMI Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Mathematics Education and Technology-Rethinking the Terrain revisits the important 1985 ICMI Study on the influence of computers and informatics on mathematics and its teaching. The focus of this book, resulting from the seventeenth Study led by ICMI, is the use of digital technologies in mathematics...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
The International Handbook of Leadership for Learning brings together chapters by distinguished authors from thirty-one countries in nine different regions of the world. The handbook contains nine sections that provide regional overviews; a consideration of theoretical and contextual aspects; system...
Rewired
Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Look around at today's youth and you can see how technology has changed their lives. They lie on their beds and study while listening to mp3 players, texting and chatting online with friends, and reading and posting Facebook messages. How does the new, charged-up, multitasking generation respond to...
Sticky Assessment
Classroom Strategies to Amplify Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Sticky Assessment is a straightforward guide to assessment, designed to demystify assessment and to give teachers the tools they need become better assessors. Translating the latest research into a concise and practical volume, this book helps teachers to monitor student learning, make assessment...
Wanted on Warrants
The Fugitive Safe Surrender Program
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Since 2005, the Fugitive Safe Surrender (FSS) program has been implemented in more than twenty cities around the country. Tens of thousands of individuals with active warrants for their arrest have voluntarily surrendered to law enforcement in a church or other neutral setting. The sites are transformed...
Problem-Based Learning in Clinical Education
The Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Developed in the context of health sciences education in the late 1960s, problem-based learning (PBL) is now widely deployed as an education methodology. Its problem-solving, collaborative, student-centred ethos is seen as a more appropriate system of pedagogy than earlier ‘chalk-and-talk’ modes....
Why Students Underachieve
What Educators and Parents Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2006
Here is a timely response to the research findings of the last decade. Why Students Underachieve: What Educators and Parents Can Do about It focuses on the need to understand how prevalent trauma is in the lives of our students and how it impacts the brain, subsequent learning, and behavior. This...
Unlocking Student Talent
The New Science of Developing Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do we truly help students achieve their fullest potential? What are the roles of motivation, deliberate practice, and coaching in developing talent and abilities in students? This hands-on guide examines each of these elements in detail providing definitions, relevant research, discussions, examples,...
Informing the Practice of Teaching Using Formative and Interim Assessment
A Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book focuses on interim and formative assessments as distinguished from the more usual interest in summative assessment. I was particularly interested in seeing what the experts have to say about a full system of assessment. This book has particular interest in what information a teacher, a school...
by Malcolm L. Van Blerkom
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Measurement and Statistics for Teachers deftly combines descriptive statistics and measurement in the classroom into a student-friendly, practical volume. Based on a course taught by the author for the past 25 years, this book offers to undergraduate education students a clear account of the basic...
by Brian Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Reading Out Loud
Read better than the class average.
Reading Out Loud is as easy for beginners and those with learning difficulties as it is for ordinary students who want to improve their reading.
It's PRESSURE FREE which relaxes the student allowing him to listen and repeat...
The Action Research Planner
Doing Critical Participatory Action Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting a critical participatory action research project. The authors outline new views on ‘participation’...