Teaching skills and techniques

Reading provides the foundation allowing students to access and analyze information.

The Cognitive Rigor Matrix superposes two of the most common tools used in K-12 education: Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and Depth of Knowledge.

Planning for Success demonstrates the power of applied listening through focus, meaning, and understanding context.

This book outlines how administrators in our school system can move from managerial efforts to leadership functions.

Teachers evaluate students' work constantly.

Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music.

All teens today, born after 2000, were thrust into a world with challenges and opportunities non-existent for previous generations.

Clinical experiences, supported by well-prepared mentor teachers and university-based teacher educators, are essential for developing successful teacher candidates.

This book is intended to introduce concepts about music composition to band and orchestra students of all ages and engage them in actual creative composing projects.

Creating Calm Classrooms presents easy-to-follow and guaranteed to succeed strategies, teacher behaviors and class management practices that the author successfully deployed to create oases of peace and tranquility in his classrooms in more than twenty years of teaching in urban schools.

Charles Sullivan, one of the winningest coaches in the history of the sport of volleyball, is a physical education teacher and sports psychology professor at Springfield College by trade.

Help your students learn math and get results by working smarter, not harder!

School leaders and educators confront complexity daily in their service.

Coplin uses his 50+ years of undergraduate teaching experience to present a series of roles, strategies and tactics to help professors prepare undergraduates for life after college.

Do you teach math to Spanish-Speaking ELLs (especially K-8)?

With chapters from experienced teachers and school and district leaders, this text provides a wealth of practical strategies and inspirational guidance on incorporating social-emotional and ethical learning across a district and educational community.

The results are in: observations are not improving teaching and learning.

Given the constantly changing student demographics in our public schools, teacher educators are tasked with preparing teacher candidates with reflective and critical teaching insights for reaching the needs and identities of all of our students.

Inquiry Paths to Literacy Learning, a collection of chapters from secondary teachers and university researchers, offers English language arts teachers several models and considerations for how to design and implement inquiry-based teaching and learning.

In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons.

Teaching In Special Education: Managing the Chaos addresses the question-how do special education teachers function in general education settings?

What Do You Do Around Here Anyway?

What role did women's leadership play in the introduction and revival of the Montessori Method in America?

Engaging Worlds: Core Texts and Cultural Contexts asks what do we learn of texts, cultures, and the world's dynamics when we read core texts, widely and deeply, in core-structured programs of the world's colleges and universities?

This textbook provides a survey of the Speech and Communication Studies areas of Communication, focusing on human communication through the transactional model of communication.

This book should be a handy tool for teachers of mathematics as they develop plans to confront the problem of misconceptions, which are common with students that often have their own notion of certain mathematical concepts, right or not.

Case Method and the Arabic Teacher: A Practical Guide compiles original case studies that address the unique challenges of teaching Arabic at the high school level.

In this second edition of Job One, editors Peter M.

Alleviating Bullying examines the facets of bullying that have become a major concern around the nation.

This book is a collection of essays that reflect the desire and determination guiding many practitioners and researchers as they work together in more meaningful and relevant ways for literacy.

Play & Culture Studies is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed series published by the Association for the Study of Play.

This book examines the current social, political, economic, and religious climate of the world, makes projections for the future, and then makes suggestions for what the contributors believe educators need to think about in order to adequately prepare young people to successfully navigate that future.

Kids today are in a media-saturated environment.

Who's the New Kid in Chemistry?

Before the COVID-19 pandemic surged across the globe, several decades of unprecedented population shifts created a worldwide "e;asylum crisis"e; that impacted millions of children and the educators that support them worldwide (Pinson & Arnot, 2007).

Instruction in the areas of professional organization, planning, and learning theory, especially as it pertains to precluding student disciplinary issues, has been diminished in most teacher preparation programs.

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Instruction in the areas of professional organization, planning, and learning theory, especially as it pertains to precluding student disciplinary issues, has been diminished in most teacher preparation programs.

High School to College Transition Research Studies offers two uniquely designed sections that provide a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research findings surrounding a diverse group of college students.

There are a number of books focused on the craft of college-level teaching.

Awareness in Action is a user-friendly text/workbook designed for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing mental health degrees (e.

In a time when liberal arts education is increasingly under attack, this volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future.

The scope of this research focuses on a sample of undergraduate university students who attended the Westchester campuses of Pace University in New York to determine the relative significance of ethnicity in the educational and professional options perceived by Italian-American vs.

Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching: The Legacy of Gloria Jean Merriex focuses on the theory and practices of a highly successful mathematics teacher of African American children in a high-poverty school.

This book supplies detailed explanations for young singers, teachers, and professional singers with "e;troubled"e; voices.

Making Math Learning Fun for Inner City School Students is an effective tool for educators and a textbook for professors of higher education.

This book is intended for university students and anyone interested in learning Standard Swahili grammar as spoken in the East African Community of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.

Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon.

The Audacity to Teach!

In a fast-paced and innovative world, traditional training methods can no longer be relied on to improve performance, engagement or promote behavioural change.