Teaching skills and techniques

Rethinking the Education Doctorate so that practitioner knowledge is at the center of programmatic concern in teacher education raises provocative education policy/practice considerations.

Focusing on parent involvement in children's education in the USA, this volume covers such topics as: government support; parent-school communication; parent-child literacy projects; preparation for teachers; and parent centres.

This volume on teaching small classes is divided into the sections: lessons learned about best teaching practices in small classes; implementing and supporting small class programmes; evaluating small class initiatives; and teachers voices.

Schools and colleges of teacher education are called upon to prepare teachers to use technology.

(Sponsored by the Middle Level Education Research SIG and the National Middle School Association)The Young Adolescent and the Middle School focuses on issues related to the nature of young adolescence and the intersection of young adolescence with middle level schooling.

The purpose of this book is to provide new theoretical, methodological and empirical directions in research on teacher emotion.

This book is a valuable one for teacher educators and teacher education programs in the United States and Europe, since it is organized around numerous data sources.

This volume covers topics including: A New Theoretical Framework for Education, University Curriculum Reforms and Curriculum and Teaching in an Age of School Reform

This volume is the seventh in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series, and presents a collection of papers selected from those presented at the Sixth International Service-learning Research, hosted by Portland State University in Portland, Oregon in October 2006.

This book tells stories of life in a "e;failing"e; school.

This book will examine mentoring from a global perspective in an effort to discover the commonalties and differences, not only in diverse fields of practice, but across a wide range of contextual Place your subscription or standing order today!

Two major real-world problems prompted this study: maintaining the Catholic identity of the Catholic schools, and increasing interest in character education.

The idea of Peace Linguistics (PL) has been around for decades.

This work looks at service learning.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC).

The field of education generally, and teacher education particularly, is experiencing some general disquiet with traditional approaches to the identification and classification of knowledge.

A demonstration of instructional design, from the point of view of what the learner is going to do.

The volume 3 of this series is designed to present educators with current research and emerging issues in teaching, learning and motivation in a multicultural context.

This publication features Hiatt-Michael's research and practice during thirty-four years as Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University.

This volume of Advances in Teacher Education is about beliefs held by teachers and addresses the important topic of teacher beliefs from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

A multidisciplinary investigation of service-learning.

Comprises three sections: emerging models for connecting community services reform; the impact of school- and community-based interventions and children's learning and development; and state and federal policies for building partnerships to improve outcomes for children and families.

Mentoring has become an important aspect of professional development in a wide variety of fields such as education engineering and business.

The purpose of this text is to further flesh out some of the factors--specific dimensions of our n-dimensional hyperspace--important to inquiry in the classroom.

This book provides readers with the opportunity to hear what experts in the educational community think about the myriad issues involved in improving the quality of all teachers in our nation's classrooms.

This book draws on ideas about the nature of teaching and teacher knowledge, teacher development and school reform, and narrative as methodology for understanding the lives and work of teachers.

The significant change in public schools over the last two decades warrants a response in how we prepare teachers.

In an increasingly global learning environment, teachers are challenged to meet a myriad of student needs-provide basic literacy and mathematics skills, improve scientific and technological thinking, increase bilingual and multi-lingual competencies.

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

This edition is not just a rehash of old, albeit classic and still important, stuff.

Our goal in writing this book was to validate teachers for strong efforts in their life's work.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC).

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.

The power of teacher inquiry is revealed when educators examine their practices with the purpose of making necessary changes to improve the learning opportunities of their multilingual students, and working conditions in schools.

This volume covers topics including: A New Theoretical Framework for Education, University Curriculum Reforms and Curriculum and Teaching in an Age of School Reform

Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field is comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pioneers in the field of social issues and education.

Our highly interconnected global education environment provides unprecedented opportunities for teaching professionals and educational researchers to share best practice in teaching and learning across international borders and sociocultural frontiers.

This work fleshes out the assertion about the need for a revisioning of education to address the circumstances in which we now find ourselves.

Design thinking is a human-centered problem-solving process that organizations can use to address wicked and complex problems of practice.

School districts today face increasing calls for accountability during a time when budgets are stretched and students' needs have become increasingly complex.

This work fleshes out the assertion about the need for a revisioning of education to address the circumstances in which we now find ourselves.

(Sponsored by SIG-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education)This research anthology is the fifth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group - Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG - REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education.

Middle Grades Research: Exemplary Studies Linking Theory to Practice is the first and only book to present what is perhaps the most thoroughly scrutinized group of studies focusing on middle grades education issues ever assembled.

Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field is comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pioneers in the field of social issues and education.

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Our goal in writing this book was to validate teachers for strong efforts in their life's work.

In Esperanza School: A Grassroots Community School in Honduras, Eloisa Rodriguez takes us into the daily lived experiences of members of a community school, Esperanza School, situated in a rural area in Honduras.

This book, Blurring the Lines, has immediate appeal to policy-makers, and analysis in public and private sectors, as well as legal scholars and practitioners.

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.

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.