Teacher training

Key components of practitioner inquiry provide an effective approach to lasting educational change.

Designed specifically for middle and high school educators, this guidebook clearly and thoroughly breaks down effective classroom-based interventions for students with ADHD.

Strongly grounded in research and rich with practical examples for educators, this book demonstrates the importance and benefits of kinaesthetic learning in young children's learning and development.

This is a story about English language learners - one in particular - and a reflection on what we, as educators, can do to promote their success.

Digital Learning in High-Needs Schools examines the challenges and affordances that arise when high-needs school communities integrate educational technologies into their unique settings.

Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) is a pedagogy that is based on research on how people learn and has been shown to lead to better student outcomes in many contexts and in a variety of academic disciplines.

Decoding the Disciplines is a widely-used and proven methodology that prompts teachers to identify the bottlenecks - the places where students get stuck - that impede learners' paths to expert thinking in a discipline.

As the debate regarding the increasing use of adjunct faculty in higher education continues to swirl, the voices of adjunct faculty themselves are rarely heard.

Service delivery is part and parcel of every higher education professional's job, both to improve service to students and to each other as "e;internal customers"e;.

Should academic careers always unfold in exactly the same way?

A growing number of people completing or holding graduate degrees now seek non-faculty positions-also called alternative academic, or "e;alt-ac"e; positions-at different stages in their careers.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework that has convincingly demonstrated that implementation increases retention and improved outcomes for all students.

This engaging and practical book offers science teacher educators and K-12 science teachers alike the tools to engage in a dialogic mode of collaborative action research (D-CAR), a collaborative mode of action research focused on teachers' experiences with students, reflection upon these experiences, and peer learning.

This anthology shares educational practices to engage young people in critical digital media consumption and production.

This seminal volume responds to the pressing need to prepare all children and young people for a sustainable future in light of the climate crisis, providing clear and accessible information and strategies on how to fully embed sustainability into pedagogy and supporting current and future educators.

El libro aborda el aparataje institucional constituido para seleccionar a los postulantes a la universidad, investigando los procesos y redes de trasfondo que le han ido dando forma a través de una historia de 170 años.

What are the foundational moments of meaningful scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects?

Situated against a backdrop of multiple global pandemics-COVID-19, racial injustice and violence, inequitable resource distribution, political insurrections and unrest-this timely and critical volume argues for a divestment in white privilege and an investment in anti-racist pedagogies and practice across early childhood contexts of research, policy, and teaching and learning.

Offering a rich, critical investigation of how technology can be used to strengthen and promote lesson study in both virtual and hybrid environments, this edited book presents insights into the numerous challenges as well as opportunities for supporting teachers' and teacher educators' professional learning in such a novel setting.

Despite flecks of the victim's blood and what looked like part of an eyebrow, one could make out the letters etched in an artistic, painstaking script that formed the killer's message:Hippocrite"e;Great.

Designing courses to deliver effective teaching and significant learning is the best way to set students up for success, and this book guides readers through the process.

Dusting Off Thunderbolts is not just another book about how to be a good leader.

Why is it critical for faculty development centers to reexamine their core mission today?

Between 2000 and 2015 the Asian American Pacific Islander population grew from nearly 12 million to over 20 million--at 72% percent recording the fastest growth rate of any major ethnic and racial group in the US.

Through the narratives of practitioner-researchers, this practical guide shares the proven processes, phases and supports that are most effective for generating living-educational-theories with values of human flourishing.

Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Leadership in Higher Education has been designed to bring together case studies to facilitate the development of effective and well-equipped leaders within the higher education sector.

In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods and the reasons why they teach Shakespeare.

Demands for quality at all levels of education are higher than they have ever been.

Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School is the key text for all those preparing to become art and design teachers in secondary school.

The perceived value of philosophy to medical education is increasing.

What does "e;good"e; teaching mean, and how can we know it when we see it?

Co-published with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), which sponsored the project from which the book emerged.

If you have ever been apprehensive about initiating classroom discussion, fearing silences, the domination of a couple of speakers, superficial contributions, or off-topic remarks, this book provides strategies for creating a positive learning experience.

This book introduces community college faculty and faculty developers to the use of faculty learning communities (FLCs) as a means for faculty themselves to investigate and surmount student learning problems they encounter in their classrooms, and as an effective and low-cost strategy for faculty developers working with few resources to stimulate innovative teaching that leads to student persistence and improved learning outcomes.

This edited volume explores the impact of recent events worldwide that commanded rapid transformation with the areas of teaching, learning, assessment, administration, and academic support systems in today's higher education institutions globally.

However personally committed faculty may be to helping students learn, their students are not always as eager to participate in this endeavor, and may react with both active and passive resistant behaviors, including poor faculty evaluations.

Este libro parte de la consideración de que la lectura es un factor esencial en el desarrollo personal y social de los niños y niñas.

This edited book explores different international practices in reforming science teacher education programs for STEM education.

Co-published with NACADAAdvisors are focused on the success of their students.

Students who know how to collaborate successfully in the classroom will be better prepared for professional success in a world where we are expected to work well with others.

This volume presents multiple perspectives on the uses of the history of mathematics for teaching and learning, including the value of historical topics in challenging mathematics tasks, for provoking teachers' reflection on the nature of mathematics, curriculum development questions that mirror earlier pedagogical choices in the history of mathematics education, and the history of technological innovations in the teaching and learning of mathematics.

This edited book explores different international practices in reforming science teacher education programs for STEM education.

Should academic careers always unfold in exactly the same way?

This book takes a comprehensive look at community engagement strategies in education to demonstrate the diverse nature of school-community relations and their value to promote their effective development.

Huh is the Egyptian god of endlessness, creativity, fertility and regeneration.

Situated against a backdrop of multiple global pandemics-COVID-19, racial injustice and violence, inequitable resource distribution, political insurrections and unrest-this timely and critical volume argues for a divestment in white privilege and an investment in anti-racist pedagogies and practice across early childhood contexts of research, policy, and teaching and learning.

American psychologist and psychiatrist David Ausubel is well known for his famous quote:"e;The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows.

This book takes a comprehensive look at community engagement strategies in education to demonstrate the diverse nature of school-community relations and their value to promote their effective development.