Teaching category: 65474 books
Becoming Confident Teachers
A Guide for Academic Librarians
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Becoming Confident Teachers examines the teaching role of information professionals at a time of transition and change in higher education. While instruction is now generally accepted as a core library function in the 21st century, librarians often lack sufficient training in pedagogy and instructional...
Using SOLO as a Framework for Teaching
A case study in maximising achievement in science
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Maximise achievement. Using SOLO as a Framework for Teaching shows how this powerful model can be transferred simply and effectively into all aspects of everyday teaching and learning. It allows the development of challenging hierarchical learning intentions and brings clarity to both the teacher...
Teaching Particulars
Literary Conversations in Grades 6-12
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
In Teaching Particulars, Helaine Smith engages her students, grammar school through twelfth grade—and any avid reader—in the questions that great literature evokes. Included are chapters on Homer and Genesis; plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Beckett; poems by Jonson, Donne, Coleridge,...
The Online Teaching Survival Guide
Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Essential reading for online instructors, updated to cover new and emerging issues and technologies
The Online Teaching Survival Guide provides a robust overview of theory-based techniques for teaching online or technology-enhanced courses. Covering all aspects of online teaching, this book...
Teaching and Learning at a Distance
Foundations of Distance Education, 6th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Teaching and Learning at a Distance is written for introductory distance education courses for preservice or inservice teachers, and for training programs that discuss teaching distant learners or managing distance education systems. This text provides readers with the basic information needed to be...
The Skillful Teacher
On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teaching
Students say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch their thinking, and keep them actively involved in class. But with increasingly diverse classrooms and constantly changing technology, each semester...
The New Art and Science of Teaching Writing
(Research-Based Instructional Strategies for Teaching and Assessing Writing Skills)
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
For educators to be effective, they must intentionally select and implement research-based instructional strategies and conduct assessments. Using a clear and well-organized structure, the authors apply the strategies and techniques originally presented in The New Art and Science of Teaching by Robert...
Teaching for the Students
Habits of Heart, Mind, and Practice in the Engaged Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“In this age of unparalleled accountability, our students seem to get lost in the shuffle of standards-driven curricula and other external factors. . . . Have we forgotten what authentic teaching and learning look and sound like? Have we forgotten that students must always be at the center of...
Language and Literacy 3-7
Creative Approaches to Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
This practical guide considers the research evidence that is needed to inform enlightened practice, and offers concrete suggestions and teaching approaches for early years settings and classrooms. This comprehensive book shows the 'what' the 'how' and the 'why' of innovative, creative practice for...
Teaching Aboriginal Studies
A practical resource for primary and secondary teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Teaching Aboriginal Studies has been a practical guide for classroom teachers in primary and secondary schools, as well as student teachers, across Australia. Chapters on Aboriginal history and culture, stereotypes and racism, government policies and reconciliation provide essential knowledge for...
The Art of Teaching Secondary English
Innovative and Creative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2004
At a time when school-based English is in danger of becoming reductive and mechanistic, the authors of this book reconsider the fundamental philosophy of English teaching, evaluate current practice and offer a practical framework for new approaches to teaching this important subject.
The authors...
Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School ... English
The Centrality of Language in Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
What is the role of the individual school 'subject' and 'subject teacher' within school? Is it to teach a set of core subject knowledge, skills and understanding in a way that remains faithful to long-standing subject cultures and pedagogies? Or is there another way to consider how the curriculum...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This landmark volume provides a broad-based, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning. Fifty-seven chapters are organized in eight thematic sections:
*social contexts of second language learning;
*research methodologies in second-language...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
A Practical Guide to Teaching Music in the Secondary School provides valuable support, guidance and creative ideas for student teachers, mentors and practising teachers who want to develop their music teaching. Written to accompany the successful textbook Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School,...