Teaching Skills & Techniques

This book shows how schools can provide services to all members of the community, not just to children of school age. It also demonstrates how a sc...

Synchronous technologies, particularly interactive video conferencing (IVC), are becoming common modes of teaching and delivering college courses. ...

One of the current controversies in education concerns the inclusion in the classroom of both mildly and severely disabled students. The authors of...

Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science. It tracks the careers of all...

Teaching is often seen as an identity process, with teachers constructing and enacting their identities through daily interactions with students, p...

Many students learn about the Middle East through a sprinkling of information and generalizations deriving largely from media treatments of current...

This collection of original essays is designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in methods of teaching. While speaking to all the topics cove...

High Leverage Practices for Intensive Interventions provides special education teachers with descriptions and practical instructions on how to use ...

This book is concerned with the conflict in United States schools between principals and teachers over teacher supervision. Many teachers are unhap...

Critical issues facing the future of teacher education are presented in this book. The contributors tackle factors including: multicultural educati...

Show students how to transfer knowledge and skills from one subject to another. Make lessons more relevant and help students retain what they′ve le...

This volume introduces Virtual Exchange (VE) as an innovative form of online intercultural learning and investigates the myriad of ways VE is being...

This book helps readers understand, teach, and support children with persistent low academic achievement who don’t meet special education eligibili...

Responding to multiple scholarly, policy, and practical calls for a greater focus on clinical teacher preparation, this volume operates on the assu...

Learn how to differentiate instruction while maintaining a rigorous learning environment. In this practical book, rigor expert Barbara R. Blackburn...

Beck and Murphy focus on four specific conditions that are crucial to any successful school: * Strong, yet approachable leadership * Capacity-bui...

"A credible plan for transforming secondary education by educators already involved in pioneering the change." Ron Brandt Writer and Consultant, ...

Mastering the Conceptual Framework for Caring Classrooms 2.

In teacher education, field work in community-based spaces (including foster homes and programs for homeless youth) is frequently contrasted with "...

Systems for the appraisal of teachers have been in place since 1992, bringing with them considerable controversy. How effective are they? What does...

Learning Sciences Research for Teaching provides educators with a fresh understanding of the use and implications of learning sciences scholarship ...

Did you know that a circle has more than one side? Are you aware of the difference between 1:2 and ½? Could you spot when a 2D shape is actually 3D...

For successful classroom teaching, your students need to be engaged and active learners. In this book, there is practical advice that is grounded i...