Teaching skills and techniques

This self-contained monograph reports the recent approaches, methods and practices of technology-enabled personalized learning.

With the growing interest in undergraduate research as a high-impact practice, and the recognition that college education is increasingly moving online, this book - the first to do so - provides a framework, guidance from pioneering practitioners, and a range of examples across disciplines on how to engage remote students in research.

This book is about using the Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID) method to make improvements to the educational experience midcourse.

Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) is a pedagogical approach that requires students to answer questions related to an upcoming class a few hours beforehand, using an online course management system.

Discipline is of profound educational importance, both inside educational institutions and outside of them in personal and social life.

Bringing together international research on nature of science (NOS) representations in science textbooks, the unique analyses presented in this volume provides a global perspective on NOS from elementary to college level and discusses the practical implications in various regions across the globe.

Practice Theory and Education challenges how we think about 'practice', examining what it means across different fields and sites.

Philosophy for Children (P4C) is a movement that teaches reasoning and argumentative skills to children of all ages.

Responding to the issues and challenges of teaching and learning about climate change from a science education-based perspective, this book is designed to serve as an aid for educators as they strive to incorporate the topic into their classes.

Designed to facilitate teachers' efforts to meet the actual challenges and dilemmas they face in their classrooms, Becoming a Teacher Researcher in Literacy Teaching and Learning: provides background information and key concepts in teacher research covers the "e;how-to"e; strategies of the teacher research process from the initial proposal to writing up the report as publishable or presentable work illustrates a range of literacy topics and grade levels features twelve reports by teacher researchers who have gone through the process, and their candid remarks about how activities helped (or not) helps teachers understand how knowledge is constructed socially in their classrooms so that they can create instructional communities that promote all students' learning.

Coaching Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom is a practical resource to help Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 teachers explore and understand a range of concepts, principles and techniques gathered under the term 'emotional intelligence', and the way that this powerfully influences pupils' behaviour and learning in the classroom.

Children's Creative Music-Making with Reflexive Interactive Technology discusses pioneering experiments conducted with young children using a new generation of music software for improvising and composing.

Fully updated, and with new sections on behaviourism, attachment disorders, neuro-scientific developments and working with dis-engaged learners, this second edition of Turning the Tables contains real-life case studies, strategies for identification and handy hints and tips throughout.

Runner up in Teach Secondary's Technology and Innovation Awards 2014 sponsored by Lego, Brilliant Ideas for using ICT in the Inclusive Classroom provides lots of simple practical ideas showing teachers and support staff how they can use ICT to boost the achievement of all pupils.

Written to explain why children need to play and offering practical guidance on how to best support children's development through play, this fully updated third edition includes a wealth of new information to reflect recent changes in the curriculum and early years qualifications.

How to Teach Fiction Writing is a practical manual to help teachers of junior classes to focus on the key aspects of developing children's storywriting.

How to Teach Story Writing at Key Stage 1 is a practical manual for teachers, to be used directly in the classroom.

How is creativity understood and facilitated across music education settings?

The Big Ideas in Physics and How to Teach Them provides all of the knowledge and skills you need to teach physics effectively at secondary level.

Autism is a complex and often puzzling disorder in which pinning down a set of rules surrounding the teaching of children with it is almost impossible to do.

,It is an exceptionally thoughtful assessment of assessment, and I am (along with anyone else who broods about education) much in your debt.

This practical resource book for Key Stage 2 explores a range of emotions using both original poetry and well-known artworks to stimulate discussion in the classroom.

You don't have to be a genius to write a PhD.

You don't have to be a genius to write a PhD.

New York City life had crammed sidewalks, gasoline-filled puddles, and angry taxi drivers, but Juliette enjoyed the towering sky-scrapers, the half-block walk to school, and the restaurant smells wafting into her bedroom.

This book examines translanguaging pedagogy in Asia's English-medium instruction (EMI) higher education.

This edited book is a collection of keynote speeches in the 3rd Global Teacher Education Summit in Beijing Normal University from October 14 to 16, 2017.

Die jungen Menschen, die jetzt ein Lehramtsstudium beginnen oder neu in den Beruf eintreten, werden über viele Jahre das Bild der Lehrerin/des Lehrers in der Öffentlichkeit bestimmen und das Leben an den Schulen prägen.

Reduce Child Obesity: A Guide to Using The Kid's Choice Program in School and at Home provides school leaders with a practical guide for applying the Kid's Choice Program (KCP), which is a school-based program to promote healthy behaviors and reduce the risk of child obesity.

Dieses Buch widmet sich dem Verhältnis von Praxis- und Bildungstheorien.

Stories of the lives of white teachers, as white teachers, too often simplify the complexities and conflicts of their work with students of color.

Many teachers who work in urban schools find classroom management to be very problematic.

School change has been at center of school reform, and many schools have moved to meet the needs of students in various areas.

Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes Permanent points out a single, fundamental, and easily-corrected flaw that has held back American education for nearly a century-the design of instruction to achieve familiarization instead of mastery.

No matter what variety of educational program is used to motivate students the bottom line is knowing the people within the circle of influence are behind every effort the student faces.

The middle school years are a maze of academic duties, human growth and self-development, discovering self identity, and increasing social interaction with other people.

Transformation of public education requires the reawakening of the sleeping giant in the room: the learners.

This book offers an innovative approach to understanding and supporting teacher inquiry groups, Critical Friends Groups, "e;PLCs,"e; and other vehicles for the school-wide professional learning community.

A Creative Approach to the Common Core Standards: The Da Vinci Curriculum challenges educators to design programs that boldly embrace the Common Core State Standards by imaginatively drawing from the genius of great men and women such as Leonardo da Vinci.

This book should be read by anyone concerned about the future of education in the U.

This book is vital for new teachers!

Look no further if you are new to a teaching career in higher education regardless of whether you are doing it full- or part-time.

School-based Mental Health: A Framework for Intervention provides essential steps for integrating community-based personnel and programs into school systems for the provision of mental health services.

Teaching Language Teachers: Scaffolding Professional Learning provides an updated view of as well as a reader-friendly introduction to the field of Teaching Teachers, with special reference to language teaching.

This book is a compendium of lesson plans for classroom exercises designed to foster philosophical inquiry with young people.

Literacy, differentiated instruction, student engagement and academic achievement continue to be hot topics for educators, parents, legislators, and government officials.

Few individuals in the history of education have had greater impact on educational policy and practice than Benjamin S.

Using casual language and a straightforward approach, Better Writing: Beyond Periods and Commas provides students with an easy-to-read and effective guide for developing their writing skills.