Teaching skills and techniques

In this book, Canadian scholar David Geoffrey Smith reflects on over thirty years of research and teaching in the human sciences, including education.

This text is a collection of essays by noted curriculum scholar and philosopher of education, David W.

This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholar-educators.

Teaching Social Studies: A Methods Book for Methods Teachers, features tasks designed to take preservice teachers deep into schools in general and into social studies education in particular.

Teaching Again exposes the very human core of the teaching experience.

The Art and Science of Mentoring is a collection of chapters and vignettes that honors one of the leading experts of mentoring, Fran Kochan.

In response to changes in the workforce, scholars are calling for mentoring that is more fluid, flexible, and responsive to the needs of diverse groups of individuals, whether culturally (Kochan & Pascarelli, 2012; Kochan, Searby, George, & Mitchell Edge, 2015) or intergenerationally (Thorpe, 2012) diverse.

Peer Coaching is a collaborative, reciprocal practice where faculty members observe, reflect, and improve their instructional practices with the goal of improved learning for all students.

What's Worth Learning?

(Orginally published in 2004)A major focus of teacher education is the development of preservice teachers.

Much of the research and writing on faculty of color and persistence in the Academy speaks to mentoring, recruitment, retention, job satisfaction, and the Imposter Syndrome.

Project-Based Learning; it's a term that most educators have heard and probably have heard good things about, Often, though, they aren't quite sure precisely what its defining characteristics are other than involving students in projects that are supposed to somehow result in their learning things of value.

The coaching metaphor first entered the educational literature over twenty-five year ago when Ted Sizer urged classroom teachers to model the pedagogical relationship between coaches and athletes.

In our current systems of education, there is a trend toward compartmentalizing knowledge, standardizing assessments of learning, and focusing primarily on quantifiable and positivist forms of inquiry.

Mentoring in Formal and Informal Contexts is a collection of invited works on mentoring in the many contexts in which it exists.

Taking a community of practice perspective that highlights the learner as part of a community, rather than a lone individual responsible for her/his learning, this ethnographically-influenced study investigates how Latina/o English Language Learners (ELLs) in middle school mathematics classes negotiated their learning of mathematics and mathematical discourse.

This book takes stories of learning relationships from popular films, television programmes and literature, and uses them as a catalyst for beginners and experts alike to reflect critically on their own mentoring and coaching practice.

(Orginally published in 2008)The goal of AMTE Monograph 4, "e;Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education: Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching"e;, is to provide detailed accounts of case use that will inform the mathematics teacher education community on the range of ways in which cases can be used to foster teacher learning and the capacity to reflect on and learn from teaching.

This book provides illustrations of urban school-university partnerships recognized by the Shirley Schwartz Award of Council of Great City Schools.

This book presents a vision of education for democracy built around promoting equity and social justice.

The twin objectives of the series Psychological Perspectives on Contemporary Educational Issues are: (1) to identify issues in education that are relevant to professional educators and researchers; and (2) to address those issues from research and theory in educational psychology, psychology, and related disciplines.

Professional Development Schools are complex and comprehensive school university partnerships focusing on professional development of new teachers and veteran teachers while providing high quality education to P-12 students.

The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines.

The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines.

The authors of this volume collectively demonstrate the importance of critical service-learning in this historic moment as we participate in, and witness ongoing struggles for justice around the world.

Leading faculty members in educational psychology, who are expert classroom teachers, describe inherent difficulties encountered when teaching different subject matter in educational psychology to diverse populations of students, including undergraduate teacher candidates, psychology and child development majors, and graduate students in education and psychology.

This is a book for teachers, especially new and soon-to-be teachers.

Drawing from over 20 years of teaching experience in the U.

The purpose of this book is to help new teachers transition from students in education courses to proactive educators who can translate what they have learned in methods classes into realistic practices as novice teachers.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly fields of teaching and curriculum.

The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines.

Family and Community Partnerships: Promising Practices for Teachers and Teacher Educators, offers a fresh new look at the competencies, strategies, and practices that effective educators develop to build strong partnerships with families and communities.

The purpose of this book is to guide teachers to understand theory related to teaching multilingual students and put it into practice in their classrooms.

(Orginally published in 2009)The sixth monograph of AMTE highlights examples of the important scholarship of the mathematics teacher education community.

The intent of this playbook is to enable PK-12 teachers, teachers-in-training, counselors, and coaches to use character and peace education lessons to enrich their curriculum and help students expand their knowledge and understanding of themes and content in each of the book's chapters.

This guidebook is designed to be the elementary school teacher's friend in addressing a wide variety of questions regarding the use of educational and instructional technologies.

There is much variability with regard to the type, depth and effectiveness of training teachers receive in understanding and meeting the needs of English language learners (ELLs) in public schools across the country, yet the rise in the number of learners has been substantial.

In April 2020, middle level education lost one of its most ardent and influential advocates with the passing of Dr.

A Book for Every Teacher: Teaching English Language Learners is a unique and compressive text written for mainstream classroom teachers.

This volume takes a critical look at teaching and learning English across the globe.

English Medium Instruction (EMI) is the use of English to teach academic content in countries where English is not the first language.

Teachers increasingly are being charged to conduct research on teaching and learning in their classes.

Teachers provide today's youth with the tools to become a positive part of society.

This book focuses on practical and productive techniques that can be used in a variety of behavior crisis situations that may occur in a classroom.

This book presents a range of evidence-based analyses focused on the role of contextual factors on urban teacher learning.

This book explores the wide range of contexts in which research into creating connections in learning and teaching may take place.

What's Worth Learning?

This book challenges the reader to consider issues of language and linguistic discrimination as they impact world language education.

For most of US history, most of America's Latino population has lived in nine states-California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, Florida, New Jersey, and New York.

This book edition offers a collection of scholarship and reflections that goes beyond theoretical conversations.