Teaching skills and techniques

Already Readers and Writers: Honoring Students' Rights to Read and Write in the Middle Grade Classroom is meant to help all middle school educators encourage their students to build literate lives both within the classroom and well beyond it.

Through a mix of history, theory, and story, Anna Plemons explores the fate of the Arts in Corrections (AIC) program at New Folsom Prison in California in order to study prison education in general as well as the disciplinary goals of rhetoric and composition classrooms.

Rob and Amanda Montgomery provide practical guidance and activities for K-12 teachers to get students out of the classroom and writing in real-world settings.

Salt of the Earth is an autoethnography and cultural rhetorics case study that examines white supremacy in the authors hometown of Grand Saline, Texas, a community long marred by its racist culture.

Through a rich mix of essays, memoirs, and poetry, the contributors to The Poverty and Education Reader bring to the fore the schooling experiences of poor and working class students, highlighting the resiliency, creativity, and educational aspirations of low-income families.

Rhetorics of Overcoming addresses the in/accessibility of writing classroom and writing center practices for disabled and nondisabled student writers, exploring how rhetorics of overcomingthe idea that disabled students must overcome their disabilities in order to be successfulmanifest in writing studies scholarship and practices.

In this third book in the Continuing the Journey series, Ken Lindblom and Leila Christenbury explore teaching English language, speaking, and listening.

A deep dive into the rich resources available for teaching Shakespeares plays, Bring on the Bard is for every high school teacherearly career to veteranlooking for new, hands-on activities to draw students of all ability levels into the work and world of Shakespeare.

What Works in Writing Instruction offers the best of what is currently known about effective writing instruction to help teachers help middle and high school students develop as writers.

The Lifespan Development of Writing presents the results of a four-year project to synthesize the research on writing development at different ages from multiple, cross-disciplinary perspectives, including psychological, linguistic, sociocultural, and curricular.

Reframing the Relational examines how writing specialists and faculty in other disciplines communicate with each other in face-to-face conversations about teaching writing.

Teach Living Poets opens up the flourishing world of contemporary poetry to secondary teachers.

Ted Kesler, with a community of grade school teachers and students, demonstrates how students creative responses lead to deep comprehension of diverse texts and ultimately help them to develop their literate identities.

During a time of increased book banning and censoring, of scrutiny of the word critical, andeven calls for surveillance of K12 teachers, the burgeoning field of critical media literacy is moreimportant than ever.

Collaborative learning is not only a standard part of writing pedagogy, but it is also a part of contemporary culture.

In Growing Writers, veteran teacher educator Anne Elrod Whitney explores how the principles defined in NCTEs Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing position statement can support high school writers and teachers of writing through knowledge and a conscious search for meaning in our writing activities.

A reflective and practical guide for secondary school teachers on using innovative technologies in the classroom to support multimodal literacy development.

Named one of the 20 Best New Rhetoric Books to Read in 2021 by BookAuthorityWinner of the 2021 Vision Award from the Coalition for Community WritingHumanities scholar Aja Y.

Discussion Pathways to Literacy Learning examines the function of classroom discussion as an essential element in inquiry and literacy learning.

A friendly and practical guide for teaching English grammar in the context of real, lived language.

How might writing instructors dedicated to community-writing or service-learning courses take into account and even mobilize the lived experiences of all their students?

In Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep, some of todays most celebrated writers for children share essays that describe a critical part of the informational writing process that is often left out of classroom instruction.

Drawing on both the production aspects of theater and the generative learning elements of drama, Theater, Drama, and Reading provides language arts teachers the tools and resources they need to help students transform text from print to interaction and deeper understanding.

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As a high school teacher, Ricki Ginsberg realized that a truly student-centered classroom requires student input.

Weaving together reading pedagogy and social emotional learning (SEL) frameworks, this text presents an integrated, research-based approach to reading instruction grounded in instructional and collaborative strategies that address students' social emotional needs.

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.

First published in 1994, Tilting the Tower explores the status of lesbians and lesbian studies in the high school and university classroom and in the academy.

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.

First published in 1994, Tilting the Tower explores the status of lesbians and lesbian studies in the high school and university classroom and in the academy.

This book is intended for everyone in higher education - whether in the classroom, student affairs, administration, admissions, health services or faculty development - who is, or expects to be teaching, advising, or serving student veterans.

As part of the discovery of cognitive science, teachers are waking up to the powers of dual coding - combining words with visuals in your teaching.

This is a guide to teaching creative writing to primary school children aged 8-11.

In an era when education can extend far beyond traditional classrooms, this volume explores how young people engage with civic life and shape their futures through creative, critical, and collective action.

Gain a thorough understanding of the business side of health care with the practical approach in Harrison/Harrison/Taylor's INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH CARE FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING, 2E.

This book addresses the combination of pedagogical, curricular, and institutional commitments necessary to create and sustain diversity on campus.

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?

The Vespa Handbook builds on the success of Steve and Martin's acclaimed books, The A Level Mindset and The GCSE Mindset, by introducing 40 new activities that will help teachers improve the grades of their students.

Shifting to standards-based learning is a big change.

Discover a clear path for creating and utilizing high-quality proficiency scales.

What do successful assessments look like?

Improve your practice with a model of instruction for secondary teachers that facilitates student learning, supports individual growth, and fosters community in competency-based education (CBE) systems.

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Transform teaching and learning with personalized competency-based education (PCBE).

This critical analysis looks at the disproportionate number of African American males in special education.

Editors Letizia Guglielmo and Sergio C.

Macbeth, a story of ambition, terror, and conscience, speaks to our students and our era.

English teacher Brent Peters and history teacher Joe Franzen show readers how food literacy works in the English classroom, beyond the English classroom, and beyond the school day.