Teaching skills and techniques

Much of what we do in classrooms is intuitive, steered by what 'feels right', but all too often intuition proves a poor, sometimes treacherous guide.

In The Teaching of English as an International Language (1981) Gerry and his colleagues put forward their ideas on classroom practice in overseas schools.

Cultivate meaningful learning schoolwide.

Combing through research for effective teaching strategies is a big ask for busy educators.

Enhance students' reading abilities with technology.

By integrating classroom formative assessment practices into daily activities, educators can substantially increase student engagement and the rate of student learning.

In the second edition of this valuable resource, Allen Mendler offers both time-tested and newly developed strategies for how to reignite enthusiasm in even the most unmotivated students.

Improve the quality of organizational learning in your school and address how current demands for rapid change and accountability contribute to levels of fear and stress.

Co-author Swen Nater, one of John Wooden's former basketball players at UCLA, provides insightful first-hand accounts on the many life lessons he learned from Wooden that has applied to his life since becoming a teacher himself.

Carve out effective intervention and extension time at all three tiers of the RTI pyramid.

Build a solid mathematics program by emphasizing prioritized learning goals and integrating RTI into your curriculum.

To fully prepare students for college, careers, and life, it is essential for educators to nurture students' behavioral skills along with their academic skills.

Depth of knowledge (DOK) has become a priority for many schools.

Create a uniform game plan to foster a collaborative community of learners, develop a shared focus, and meet growth goals.

Learn from the world's best education researchers, theorists, and staff developers as they present recommendations on effective instruction.

Build a thriving school community that creates healthy, resilient, and successful students.

Align teaching with next-generation standards.

Motivate English learners to boost proficiency with confidence.

Student-centered classrooms make it possible for schools to fulfill their best and most enduring promise: to give students a fair chance to grow up literate, open-minded, and prepared to succeed.

A lively, enchanting story that wonderfully captures the daily ups and downs of being a child with attention deficit disorder through the adventures of Paige, a bright young girl whose inability to stay focused threatens to spoil her best efforts to win a school contest.

Research informed teaching is big news!

This book is unique in that it goes beyond individual teacher assistance to provide creative systems that work in concert with a student's literacy education.

The PLC journey begins by articulating a moral purpose: a dedication to ensuring that every student learns.

Developed as a companion to Embedded Formative Assessment, 2nd edition, this handbook guides K-12 teachers through the process of developing effective formative assessments.

First introduced in Unstoppable Learning, the Unstoppable Learning framework details seven essential elements of teaching and learning: (1) planning, (2) launching, (3) consolidating, (4) assessing, (5) adapting, (6) managing, and (7) leading.

Foster authentic learning in classrooms.

Increase student learning with engaging lesson plans and high-level tasks.

Effective teaching and learning must reflect what's happening technologically, socially, economically, and globally.

researchED is an educator-led organisation with the goal of bridging the gap between research and practice.

Get past the knowing-doing gap and confidently implement standards-based learning.

Fully engage learners in your classroom.

Education authorities from around the globe explore deeper learning, a process that promotes higher-order thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to better educate students and prepare them for college and careers.

Quality education is a human right and all individuals and peoples regardless of their social, ethnic, personal, economic, gender, or religion, should be able to participate and engage in productive and lifelong learning.

This book is written for teacher educators who are looking for strategies to teach a foreign or second language in a more meaningful way whilst applying active methodologies to develop critical thinking skills.

This book focuses on large and small group educational settings and offers brief strategies to engage learners to assure active learning strategies are core to the learning environment.

This book draws together various theoretical and research-based perspectives to examine the institutionalization of mentoring processes for beginning teachers.

This book explores the challenges and opportunities faced by universities as they move to digital education.

This book presents the most up-to-date research contributions focusing on progress in the field of physics education.

This book reflects on how teachers and students use new technologies in classroom settings in order to improve the capacity of teaching and learning in history to successfully meet the challenges of the twenty-first century through a complex understanding of the relation between past and present.

This volume discusses diverse methodologies in economics education, focusing on experiential economic education away from campus through study abroad, study away, and other off-campus programs.

This book is a small but practical summary of how one can and should learn science.

This unique book starts from the premise that students, scholars, and educators should be given access to a form of global education that is genuinely global.

This book questions the consensus that contemporary formal schooling is of clear cut and undoubted benefit to pupils.

This book engages ongoing debates about the nature, manifestation and purpose of entrepreneurship education (EE).

This book brings together the work of researchers from around the globe around the topic of children's first transitions to early care and education.

This book explores critical pedagogy and issues relating to entrepreneurialism, commodification, and marketization in education, and their deleterious effects on student agency and subjectivity.

This book centers equity in the approach to trauma-informed practice and provides the first evidence-based guide to trauma-informed teaching and learning in higher education.

This textbook is a practical, user-friendly and essential guide for doctoral students, their supervisors and advisors and administrators of doctoral programs in nursing and health sciences.

Ce livre discute les formes d’éducation traditionnelle, sociale et scolaire en Afrique en mettant en exergue le fait que la fin essentielle pour toutes celles-ci est de modeler l’individu afin qu’il soit obéissant.

This book addresses issues related to ethics and the scholarship of teaching and learning, and pays special attention to ethical concerns and experiences that have arisen from engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) work.