Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
by Geoff Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book will supplement the training currently being offered to all secondary English departments. It offers a view of the place of the English 'strand' in the overall Key Stage 3 strategy and gives support to English departments in their preparations for a new way of working. It will encourage...
by John White, John Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Why is it that some teachers have a kind of magical charisma and charm which sets them apart from their peers? This book gives us a fresh and exciting answer – They have the classroom X-Factor! White and Gardner’s gripping text, The Classroom X Factor, examines the notion of having what the public...
The Forms of Things Unknown
Teaching Poetry Writing to Teens and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A college student writes: “These words I write/ open their mouths wide/ screaming the most intimate secrets.”
An inmate in a maximum-security men’s prison writes: “Within my writing, I am able to break down my prison walls and escape, leave the gangster façade behind.”
The...
Health and Physical Education for Elementary Classroom Teachers
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
In elementary schools across the United States, teachers are often tasked with teaching health education or physical education, although they may not have specialist training. Health and Physical Education for Elementary Classroom Teachers: An Integrated Approach is the perfect resource for these...
Language and Image in the Reading-Writing Classroom
Teaching Vision
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
This volume offers concrete answers to the question of how we can use imagery to enrich the teaching of reading and writing. The chapters are organized according to two guiding principles. First, each addresses specific aspects of the inextricable integration of imagery and language in the teaching...
by HowExpert
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
This e-book has been constructed to equip the modern day Sunday School teacher with the necessary tools to be both successful and efficient in their endeavors. This book covers a wide range of topics, including “How to Prepare The Lesson,” “How to Choose The Right Crafts,” and “How to Make...
Social Justice Literacies in the English Classroom
Teaching Practice in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely book focuses on different social justice pedagogies and how they can work within standards and district mandates in a variety of English language arts classrooms. With detailed analysis and authentic classroom vignettes, the author explores how teachers cultivate relationships for equity,...
Mathematics as a Constructive Activity
Learners Generating Examples
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
This book explains and demonstrates the teaching strategy of asking learners to construct their own examples of mathematical objects. The authors show that the creation of examples can involve transforming and reorganizing knowledge and that, although this is usually done by authors and teachers,...
Teaching Mathematics Online
Emergent Technologies and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Educational technologies (e-learning environments or learning management systems for individual and collaborative learning, Internet resources for teaching and learning, academic materials in electronic format, specific subject-related software, groupware and social network software, etc.) are changing...
Recipe for Great Teaching
11 Essential Ingredients
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In this well-seasoned book, charismatic educator Anita Moultrie Turner shows new teachers, veteran teachers, and staff developers how to blend 11 essential ingredients into effective and productive classrooms where all students can succeed. Easy to read and hard to put down, this Recipe for Great...
Learning to Teach in the Digital Age
New Materialities and Maker Paradigms in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Learning to Teach in the Digital Age tells the story of a group of K–12 teachers as they began to connect with digital making and learning pedagogies. Guiding questions at the heart of this qualitative case study asked how teaching practices engaged with and responded to the maker movement and digital...
Teaching Young Adult Literature
Developing Students as World Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Teaching Young Adult Literature: Developing Students As World Citizens (by Thomas W. Bean, Judith Dunkerly-Bean, and Helen Harper) is a middle and secondary school methods text that introduces pre-service teachers in teacher credential programs and in-service teachers pursuing a Masters degree in...
Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education
Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
(Orginally published in 2008) The goal of AMTE Monograph 4, "Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education: Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching", is to provide detailed accounts of case use that will inform the mathematics teacher education community on the range of ways in which cases can...
Mathematics Education as a Research Domain: A Search for Identity
An ICMI Study Book 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
No one disputes how important it is, in today's world, to prepare students to un derstand mathematics as well as to use and communicate mathematics in their future lives. That task is very difficult, however. Refocusing curricula on funda mental concepts, producing new teaching materials, and...