Teaching Methods category: 9681 books
Teaching Speaking and Listening
One Step at a Time, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book offers a systematic yet flexible programme for teaching spoken language one step at a time. It targets the essential spoken language skills crucial for every child's educational development - Conversation; Listening; Narrative; Discussion -and provides auditing tools, checklists and guidance...
by Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Bob Fecho
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms. It underscores the value of providing students with a range of different critical approaches and tools for interpreting texts and the need to...
Digital Humanities Pedagogy
Practices, Principles and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Academic institutions are starting to recognize the growing public interest in digital humanities research, and there is an increasing demand from students for formal training in its methods. Despite the pressure on practitioners to develop innovative courses, scholarship in this area has tended to...
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 Science in Elementary and Middle School
A Cognitive and Cultural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
A practical methods text that prepares teachers to engage their students in rich science learning experiences
Featuring an increased emphasis on the way today's changing science and technology is shaping our culture, this Second Edition of Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School provides...
Critical Thinking Now
Practical Teaching Methods for Classrooms around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Today’s curricula can (and should) incorporate critical thinking methods because they are the means by which people best understand, learn, and retain higher level concepts. Contrary to what many professional trainers assume, teaching critical thinking is not achieved by shoveling facts at an audience...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
While the great scientists of the past recognized a need for a multidisciplinary approach, today’s schools often treat math and science as subjects separate from the rest. This not only creates a disinterest among students, but also a potential learning gap once students reach college and then graduate...
Teaching on a Tightrope
The Diverse Roles of a Great Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Teaching on a Tightrope offers those seeking to play the teacher's role a way of thinking about the major components of teaching. These components or dimensions are described in terms of pairings that interact and overlap with each other, e.g., teaching as art and science, content and process, theory...
by Lorraine Lauf, Karin Brodie, Stephen Modau
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
For too many students, mathematics consists of facts in a vacuum, to be memorized because the instructor says so, and to be forgotten when the course of study is completed. In this all-too-common scenario, young learners often miss the chance to develop skills—specifically, reasoning skills—that...
Reading-Writing Connections
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Reading-Writing Connections: From Theory to Practice is an extraordinary language arts methods text that enables elementary and middle school teachers to create classroom environments where all students can become lifelong readers and writers. Focusing on developmentally appropriate methods and materials,...
Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies
Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies. Writing explicitly for pre-service social studies...
by Douglas K. Brumbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Middle school teaching and learning has a distinct pedagogy and curriculum that is grounded in the concept of developmentally appropriate education. This text is designed to meet the very specific professional development needs of future teachers of mathematics in middle school environments.
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by Ellina Grigorieva
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Through its engaging and unusual problems, this book demonstrates methods of reasoning necessary for learning number theory. Every technique is followed by problems (as well as detailed hints and solutions) that apply theorems immediately, so readers can solve a variety of abstract problems in a systematic,...