Putting Critical Language Pedagogy into Practice explores the practice of language teaching through the lens of critical pedagogy, reflexivity, and the importance of reflexivity for teacher development.
Moving away from a traditional 'one size fits all' approach, this thesis guide encourages readers to find their own path to submission, demonstrating that the process of writing is as unique as the individual candidate.
This practical guide shows how and why in-service and pre-service teachers should use inquiry in their social studies lessons to develop students critical thinking and decision-making skills.
As the number of children for whom English is an Additional Language in schools increases, how do teachers and trainees prepare to support them to succeed?
As the number of children for whom English is an Additional Language in schools increases, how do teachers and trainees prepare to support them to succeed?
Gifted students spend most of their time in the regular classroom, yet few general education teachers have the specialized training to address their unique needs.
Gifted students spend most of their time in the regular classroom, yet few general education teachers have the specialized training to address their unique needs.
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.
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.
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;.
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.
* Interviews with Black students and experienced educators provide guidance on how to teach successfully in multicultural classes* Insights and ideas to promote observation, reflection, and effective classroom practice* Ideal for initiating constructive discussion in pre-service courses, and for professional development* Defines the seven characteristics of successful multicultural teaching* Based on the acclaimed book These interviews with Black students, White and Black teachers, educational experts and school administrators poignantly bring to life the issues, strategies and competencies that teachers need to engage with-if they are to create the conditions that will enable their students of color to succeed and excel.
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.
How do you develop students' capacities as independent learners, build their confidence and motivation to identify their own research agendas, and facilitate their critical thinking and research skills for effectively exploring their chosen topic?
Fresh out of graduate school and desperate to pay off her student loans, Nicole Adams joins the faculty at Higher State U, a small university with a dubious past located in the middle of the Midwest.
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 victims blood and what looked like part of an eyebrow, one could make out the letters etched in an artistic, painstaking script that formed the killers message:Hippocritea 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.
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.
The authors--a once-skeptical chemistry professor and a director of assessment sensitive to the concerns of her teacher colleagues--use a personal voice to describe the basics of outcomes-based assessment.
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.
This guidebook aims to stimulate student affairs professionals and higher education faculty alike to adopt new approaches when discussing sensitive or controversial topics with their students.
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.
Co-published with and Students need more than just academic skills for success in college and career, and the lack of an explicit instructional focus on the "e;soft skills"e; critical to postsecondary success poses a challenge for many students who enter college, especially the underprepared.
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.
