Academic : Education : Theory and practice of education : Teaching (Principles and practice)

This book contains over 500 practical suggestions designed to help tutors establish active learning amongst their students. Divided into useful sections the tips cover the gamut of teaching and learning situations and comprise a 'start anywhere', dip-in resource suitable for both the newcomer and the old hand. Intended mainly for the university or college lecturer involved in learner-centred learning, the book offers fresh ideas and food for thought on six broad areas of the job: * Getting your students going * Starting off, and working together * The programme itself - lectures, assignments and feedback * Helping students to learn from resources * Assessment: demonstrating evidence of achievement * Skills for career and life in general This lively and stimulating book will prove valuable to lecturers, tutors, teachers, trainers and staff developers. more...

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I 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 in each chapter about real kids with real universal problems. You will identify with these adolescents and will see how these problems can be solved;a thoughtful explanation of current theories of comprehension instruction and how they might be adapted for use with adolescents;a What Works section in each of the last seven chapters that offers simple ideas you can immediately employ in your classroom. The suggestions can be used in a variety of content areas and grade levels(6-12);teaching tips and ideas that benefit struggling readers as well as proficient and advanced readers;appendixes with reproducible materials that you can use in your classroom, including coding sheets, double entry diaries, and comprehension constructors.In a time when students need increasingly sophisticated reading skills, this book will provide support for teachers who want to incorporate comprehension instruction into their daily lesson plans without sacrificing content knowledge. more...

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Tips for the first year and beyond! more...

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Creative Learning in the Primary School uses ethnographic research to consider the main features of creative teaching and learning within the context of contemporary policy reforms. In particular, the authors are interested in the clash between two oppositional discourses - creativity and performativity - and how they are resolved in creative teacher practice. The book complements previous work by these authors on creative teaching by giving more consideration to creative learning. The first section of the book explores the nature of creative teaching and learning by examining four key features: relevance, control, ownership and innovation. The authors devote a chapter to each of these aspects, outlining their properties and illustrating them with a wide range of examples, mainly from recent practice in primary schools. The second section presents some instructive examples of schools promoting creative learning, and of how creative primary schools have responded to the policy reforms of recent years. The chapters focus specifically on:.:. how pupils act as a powerful resource for creative learning for each other and for their teachers;.:. how teachers have appropriated the reforms to enhance their creativity;.:. and how one school has moved over a period of ten years from heavy constraint to high creativity.:. The blend of analysis, case-study material and implications for practice will make this book attractive to primary teachers, school managers, policy makers, teacher educators and researchers. more...

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Robyn Jackson, a National Board Certified teacher, discusses the seven principles that can help educators at any level improve their practice and become master teachers. more...

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