Teaching category: 65474 books
Intentional and Targeted Teaching
A Framework for Teacher Growth and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
What is FIT Teaching? What is a FIT Teacher?
The Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching®—or FIT Teaching®—is a research-based, field-tested, and experience-honed process that captures the essentials of the best educational environments. In contrast to restrictive pedagogical...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Teaching Thinking is a comprehensive guide to research on teaching thinking. Teaching thinking is key to growing a more successful economy, is needed for increased democratic engagement and is vital for the well-being of individuals faced with the...
The Effectiveness of Mathematics Teaching in Primary Schools
Lessons from England and China
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The Effectiveness of Mathematics Teaching in Primary Schools: Lessons from England and China provides a unique insight into the mathematics classrooms of these two countries and arrives at a time when the world is eager to know how Chinese learners consistently excel at learning mathematics and other...
Evaluating Teaching and Learning
A practical handbook for colleges, universities and the scholarship of teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Every semester, colleges and universities ask students to complete innumerable course and teaching evaluation questionnaires to evaluate the learning and teaching in courses they have taken. For many universities it is a requirement that all courses be evaluated every semester. The laudable rationale...
by Diane Lapp, James Flood, Cynthia H. Brock
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This popular text, now in its Fourth Edition, introduces pre-service and in-service teachers to the most current theories and methods for teaching literacy to children in elementary schools. The methods presented are based on scientific findings that have been tested in many classrooms. A wealth...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
The quality of primary and secondary school mathematics teaching is generally agreed to depend crucially on the subject-related knowledge of the teacher. However, there is increasing recognition that effective teaching calls for distinctive forms of subject-related knowledge and thinking. Thus, established...
Guerrilla Teaching
Revolutionary tacti for teachers on the ground, in real classrooms, working with real children, trying to make a real difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Guerrilla Teaching is a revolution. Not a flag-waving, drum-beating revolution, but an underground revolution, a classroom revolution. It’s not about changing policy or influencing government; it’s about doing what you know to be right, regardless of what you’re told. It’s sound advice for...
Teaching Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom
Comic Books, Film, Television and Picture Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Teaching Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom shows how everyday literacy sessions can be made more exciting, dynamic and effective by using a wide range of media and visual texts in the primary classroom. In addition to a wealth of practical teaching ideas, the book outlines the vital importance...
Teaching, Training and Learning
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
This edition has been designed to meet the requirements of:- Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS)- Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CTLLS)- Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (DTLLS)- Certificate in Education- Post Graduate Certificate in...
Teaching Chinese Literacy in the Early Years
Psychology, pedagogy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The Chinese language is now used by a quarter of the world’s population and is increasingly popular as a second language. Teaching Chinese Literacy in the Early Years comprehensively investigates the psychology, pedagogy and practice involved in teaching Chinese literacy to young children.
This...
Learning by Teaching
Evidence-based Strategies to Enhance Learning in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This book provides an essential overview of "learning by teaching", unpacking the underpinning theory, research evidence and practical implications of peer learning in a variety of classroom contexts.
It aims to offer practical guidance for practitioners in structuring effective peer...
by Dominic Wyse, Russell Jones, Helen Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Are you looking for one book that gives a comprehensive account of primary and early years English, language and literacy teaching?
This fully revised fourth edition of Teaching English, Language and Literacy includes up-to-date research and updated discussion of effective teaching. Throughout...
Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching
Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely and critical look at the teaching of English shows how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools across the United States. Drawing on the work of four ESL teachers who pursued anti-racist pedagogical practices during their first year of teaching, the...
Pose, Wobble, Flow
A Culturally Proactive Approach to Literacy Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book proposes a pedagogical model called “Pose, Wobble, Flow” to encapsulate the challenge of teaching and the process of growing as an educator who questions existing inequities in schooling and society and frames teaching around a commitment to changing them. The authors provide...