Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
by Anne Belton
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book is intended to be an easy-to-use resource to help health care professionals improve their approach when teaching people to manage chronic disease. It is evident in the industry that many believe they merely have to tell a patient what to do and it will be done. This book will give nurses,...
Teaching Tough Kids
Simple and Proven Strategies for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
How can you really make a difference for your students?
Teaching Tough Kids delivers a refreshing collection of realistic ideas to sustain the organisational and behavioural transformations of all students, particularly those who 'do it tough'; who learn and react differently. They are complex...
Multicultural Science Education
Preparing Teachers for Equity and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This book offers valuable guidance for science teacher educators looking for ways to facilitate preservice and inservice teachers’ pedagogy relative to teaching students from underrepresented and underserved populations in the science classroom. It also provides solutions that will better equip...
Teach, Breathe, Learn
Mindfulness in and out of the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
In Teach, Breathe, Learn, Meena Srinivasan highlights how mindfulness can be an effective tool in the classroom. What makes this book truly unique is her perspective as a classroom teacher, wrestling daily with the conditions about which she writes.
"Teach, Breathe, Learn provides accessible,...
by Louis Cozolino
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Creating a healthy, social classroom environment.
This book explains how the brain, as a social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late life. Positioning the brain as distinctly social, Louis Cozolino helps teachers make connections to neurobiological...
The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children
What Do We Know?
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children remains the only book that provides a comprehensive summary of the empirical research on the social and emotional development of gifted children by leading authorities in the field. It includes several features that make it the leading text on...
Language and Literacy Development, Second Edition
What Educators Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
This established text--now revised and updated--reveals how spoken language skills are acquired and how they affect children’s later reading and writing achievement. With a unique focus on the needs of educators, the book examines the foundations of language in the developing brain. It explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Achievement goal theory has emerged as one of the preeminent approaches to motivation. Goals, Goal Structures, and Patterns of Adaptive Learning presents the findings of a large scale, longitudinal study that use goal theory as the lens through which to examine the relation among achievement goals,...
by Jacky Kilvington, Ali Wood
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Does gender, sex and sexuality influence children's play, and their learning? Can/should professionals try to influence children's gender and sexual concepts? Can/should professionals try to prevent gender stereotyping? These and other questions are explored in a lively and thought-provoking text...
Real World Career Preparation
A Guide to Creating a University Student-Run Communications Agency
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
University student-run communications agencies allow students to work with real clients and get real world experience before they graduate from college and enter the workforce. Student-run agencies are increasing in popularity, but building a successful agency is challenging.
With more than...
Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV
The Learner-Centered Paradigm of Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV provides a research-based description of the current state of instructional theory for the learner-centered paradigm of education, as well as a clear indication of how different theories and models interrelate. Significant changes have occurred in...
Learning to Teach with Assessment
A Student Teaching Experience in China
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
This ethnography asks the question, what does learning to teach mean to student teachers and to those around them in an exam-driven rural school in China? The author writes of the process of using the assessment as a tool for teacher learning, understanding disadvantaged students in the community...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The contribution of this volume to the literature on peer learning is its focus on approaches that reflect a common concern with cognitive processes based in developmental, information processing, or more generally, constructivist perspectives on peer learning. Although the clear importance of the...
Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Learning
A Corpus-Based Cross-sectional Study of Chinese Learners of English
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book highlights research that expands on our knowledge of second- language collocation acquisition. It presents original findings based on the largest collocation database to date, encompassing over 8,000 collocations: verb + noun, adjective + noun, and noun + noun. These collocations, collected...