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The Power of Positive Teachingby Yvonne Bender
Nomad Press 2004; US$ 9.95Valuable and innovative classroom management strategies fill this indispensable guide to effective teaching. Explained in an easy-to-follow, concise format, each 23-page strategy includes a brief introductory scenario illustrating the technique's usefulness in the classroom, steps to implementing the strategy, a discussion of potential problems and suggestions for managing them, and viable ideas for adapting the techniques to fit different teaching situations. Quick-reference teacher-friendly sections include strategies that gain and maintain students' attention, build teamwork, keep students organized, enhance review and reinforcement lessons, and help sustain a positive learning environment. more...
The Smart Study Guideby Louise Tamblin; Pat Ward
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2006; US$ 33.95Drawing on the latest research into memory, information processing and learning, this book helps students to tailor their study techniques to their own particular learning style and psychological make-up. An exploration of the tools and techniques essential to success in studying and passing examinations. Suitable for classroom, distance learning, online, or blended learning environments. Includes questionnaires, activities, key learning points, illustrations, diagrams, flow charts, and mindmaps. more...
Summarization in Any Subjectby Rick Wormeli
ASCD 2004; US$ 29.95A national boardcertified teacher shares time-tested ways to make this underused but highly effective instructional strategy part of every teacher?s repertoire. more...
One Child at a Timeby Pat Johnson
Stenhouse Publishers 2006; US$ 14.40Every elementary teacher deals with students who struggle as readers on a daily basis. In One Child at a Time, experienced literacy specialist and consultant Pat Johnson provides a framework she has used with hundreds of students in scores of classrooms to help teachers understand and assist individual children. The four-step process outlined in the book enables teachers to focus carefully on specific behaviors and needs, analyze them with theoretical and practical lenses, design targeted instruction, and then assess and refine the teaching in conferences with the child. Pat shows how to use this framework successfully with a range of learners, including young children, English language learners, and students in the upper elementary grades... more...
Teachers and Technoliteracyby Colin Lankshear; Ilana Snyder; Bill Green
Allen & Unwin 2000; US$ 25.45Shows how schools can best manage technology infrastructure and use of technology in the classroom. more...
Supporting Language and Communicationby R Sage
Sage Publications Ltd. 2006; US$ 31.00Examining aspects of communication, this book considers how a positive learning environment can nurture a good understanding of communication. It will help teaching assistants to acquire skills and strategies that they can call on to provide optimum support when working with children in a variety of situations, in both primary and early years settings. Contents include: an exploration of current issues, such as the difference between home and school language; how to communicate material and information effectively to pupils; a consideration of the needs of particular groups of speakers; what might be the consequences of poor communication skills, and how to address these difficulties. more...
Schoolyard-Enhanced Learningby Herbert W. Broda
Stenhouse Publishers 2007; US$ 14.00Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning shows how the school grounds?regardless of whether your school is in an urban, suburban, or rural setting?can become an enriching extension of the classroom. In this comprehensive handbook, Herb Broda blends theory and practice, providing readers with practical suggestions and teacher-tested activities for using the most powerful audio-visual tool available?the outdoors. Emphasizing the practical, this innovative book offers teachers step-by-step guidance to help ensure success when they take a class outside. It provides:Background that helps present the case for outdoor learning: educational theory that supports the concept; overview of the terminology; research on the benefits related to student achievement; alignment... more...
I Read It, but I Don't Get Itby Cris Tovani
Stenhouse Publishers 2000; US$ 15.60I Read It, but I Don't Get It is a practical, engaging account of how teachers can help adolescents develop new reading comprehension skills. Cris Tovani is an accomplished teacher and staff developer who writes with verve and humor about the challenges of working with students at all levels of achievement?from those who have mastered the art of "fake reading" to college-bound juniors and seniors who struggle with the different demands of content-area textbooks and novels. Enter Cris' classroom, a place where students are continually learning new strategies for tackling difficult text. You will be taken step-by-step through practical, theory-based reading instruction that can be adapted for use in any subject area. The book features:anecdotes... more...
Data Collection and Analysisby Roger Sapsford; Victor Jupp
Sage Publications Ltd. 2006; US$ 59.00Building on the strengths of the bestselling first edition, this expanded version includes: three chapters focusing on: research and information on the Net; discourse research; ethnographic and discursive qualitative analysis; up-to-date examples of research in action and material on questionnaire design, composite measurement and techniques of quantitative and qualitative interviewing. more...
Multimedia Learningby Richard E. Mayer
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 30.00Evidence based, rigorous text reviewing 12 principles of experimental studies grounded in cognitive theory of multi-media learning. more...