Teacher training

Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning.

Countering the commonplace view of teaching as inclusive, this collection highlights the persistence of inequalities in the teaching profession.

Ipsative assessment is a powerful new approach that provokes a radical rethink of the purposes and methods of assessment.

This volume stands as a demonstration of resistance to 'the known' (i.

This book sets out an original Youth Work-based SRE programme and explores how a range of socioeconomic, cultural and sexual norms, values and attitudes differently shape decision-making on sex, intimacy and future plans across different contexts.

This truly accessible resource shows secondary school practitioners how to help make every child and young person feel like they really matter when they are in school, so they can develop confidence, resilience, love of learning, a positive sense of self and healthy relationships.

Curriculum reform, performance assessment, standards, portfolios, and high stakes testing-what's next?

Many national initiatives in K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education have emphasized the connections between teachers and improved student learning.

Economic, academic, and social forces are causing undergraduate schools to start a fresh examination of teaching effectiveness.

Curriculum reform, performance assessment, standards, portfolios, and high stakes testing-what's next?

For the past 17 years, the U.

Economic, academic, and social forces are causing undergraduate schools to start a fresh examination of teaching effectiveness.

Value-added methods refer to efforts to estimate the relative contributions of specific teachers, schools, or programs to student test performance.

The mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is to establish high and rigorous standards for what teachers should know and be able to do, to certify teachers who meet those standards, and to advance other education reforms for the purpose of improving student learning in American schools.

What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding?

Written by teachers and teacher educators, this book presents practice-focused ideas and provocative questions to help teachers plan for inclusive curriculum and assessment within key learning areas in school education.

Finland is the undisputed pioneer in architectural education.

In this edited collection, the authors grapple with both the strengths and challenges that HBCUs face as the nation's demographics change, from their place in American society and growing diversity on HBCU campuses to class and elitism issues to study abroad and honors programs.

Presenting school reform grassroots activists - teachers, parents, and organizers alike - in their own words, the editors document the newly emerged role of digital networks of activists in school reform and analyze their efforts as acts of critical literacy.

In order to determine how history education can be harnessed to reduce conflict attitudes and intentions and create a culture of peace, this book examines how history curricula and textbooks shape the identities of their students through their portrayals of ingroup and outgroup identity, intergroup boundaries, and value systems.

This book provides a comparative look at key issues that characterize and contextualize upper secondary science education in sixteen countries in Oceania, South America, Asia, Europe, North America, Africa, and the Middle East, incluing links with elementary and early science, final assessment, and the secondary/tertiary education interface.

Scholars from three continents collaborate to create a truly global understanding of curriculum in the world's most populous country.

Using case studies from Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors to this volume examine aspects such as audience response, film education for children, and the impact on crime in the various studios, clubs, film festivals, NGOs, peripatetic workshops, and alternative film schools where filmmaking is taught.

"e;What the teacher wants me to say is more important than what I want to say.

Learning theories and teaching approaches summarised, explained and critiqued for trainee teachers.

In a readable and highly accessible ethnographic account that is shaped by the stories of families and the voices of parents, De Wolfe examines how parents of children with autism navigate the educational and medical systems, understand their own and their children's bodies, and support and educate one another.

This practical book shares the tools and processes that higher education professionals can take to develop empathy and perspective-taking.

This volume brings into focus the pivotal educational years during adolescence, when many learners are exposed to implicit and explicit messages that STEM is not a viable educational pathway for them.

Including relevant case studies and interviews with practitioners, Augmented Education explores the nature of learning where the 'real world' is augmented by use of the virtual to create new learning possibilities, tools, and environments.

A comprehensive and accessible overview for language educators, researchers, and students, this book examines the relationship between technological innovation and development in the field of computer-assisted language learning, exploring relevant theories and providing practical evidence about the use of computer games in language learning.

Dieses kompakte Lehrbuch führt Studierende des Lehramtes zielgenau in das gesamte Spektrum der wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsmethoden ein: von der ersten Recherche bis hin zur pädagogisch orientierten Bachelor- oder Masterarbeit.

Dieses kompakte Lehrbuch führt Studierende des Lehramtes zielgenau in das gesamte Spektrum der wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsmethoden ein: von der ersten Recherche bis hin zur pädagogisch orientierten Bachelor- oder Masterarbeit.

Moore asks the question of whether and under what conditions experience constitutes a legitimate source of knowledge and learning in higher education.

The book focuses on the debate about myth as a counter-concept to contemporary scientific thinking.

Utilising a wide range of theoretical traditions from philosophy, sociology and anthropology, this book aims to raise the reader's awareness of the power as well as the limitations of language in relation to special education.

Este libro analiza los acontecimientos laborales que experimentan las maestras durante sus primeros años de ejercicio profesional, a partir de una comparación entre los problemas de enseñanza vividos por las docentes de Educación Infantil de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional entre el 2006 y el 2008.

Jesus is the King of kings, the Lord of lords.

Develop your professional identity and feel prepared to teach!

Teaching in secondary schools requires a professional mindset, a range of skills and the confidence to face challenging situations.

An insightful and informative guide for many of the situations and issues high school English Language Arts teachers face every day.

Teaching and Learning History Online: A Guide for College Instructors offers everything a new online history instructor needs in one package, including how to structure courses, integrate multimedia, and manage and grade discussions, as well as advice for department chairs on curriculum management, student advising, and more.

Teaching and Learning History Online: A Guide for College Instructors offers everything a new online history instructor needs in one package, including how to structure courses, integrate multimedia, and manage and grade discussions, as well as advice for department chairs on curriculum management, student advising, and more.

This book encourages readers to think about reading not only as an encounter with written language, but as a lifelong habit of engagement with ideas.

This book encourages readers to think about reading not only as an encounter with written language, but as a lifelong habit of engagement with ideas.

In this groundbreaking book, one of the world's leading authorities on ways of developing equitable education systems addresses the greatest challenge facing education systems around the world, that of developing schools that are effective in educating all children.

With classroom response systems (or CRSs, also known as Student Response Systems, Individual Response Systems, or, informally, "e;clickers"e;) in use in higher education for some 20 years, there is now both ample research and a wealth of examples and ideas to draw on for faculty who are contemplating their use, or exploring new ways to integrate them in their teaching.

Is the lecture an outmoded teaching method that inhibits active learning or is it a potentially powerful tool that is an essential part of every teacher's repertoire?

This handbook gathers in one volume the major research and scholarship related to multicultural science education that has developed since the field was named and established by Atwater in 1993.

This book shines a light on novel and less familiar domains of early English language education for children aged 3 to 12, in mainstream and out-of-school settings.