Teaching Skills & Techniques

Why do students stumble over certain concepts and ideas—such as attributing causality to correlation; revert to former misconceptions, even after s...

This book, New Writing Explorations: Researching Creative Writing, investigates creative writing as an area of research, building from a recognitio...

This volume provides insights into the teaching and learning practices and experiences of diversity educators and their students. College-level tea...

This book explores how different classroom discourses and concepts of knowledge permeate teaching in high- and low-performance classrooms. Drawing ...

Connect your students to science projects that are intriguing and fun!Let Randi Stone and her award-winning teachers demonstrate tried-and-tested b...

Provides guidance on how to read research and how to conduct research in the classroom. It aims to engender in teachers an awareness of the possibi...

"I felt inspired and renewed and validated." -Cathy Lutz, Teacher Madison Station Elementary School, MS "Both practical and inspirational." -Chris ...

Inquiry-guided learning (IGL) refers to an array of classroom practices that promote student learning through guided and, increasingly independent ...

A concise and easy-to-read K-12 methods text that covers practical information all teachers need to be effective The Fourth Edition of Effective...

Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing about the transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the last fe...

The Cricket Chronicles presents an extensive integrated unit of study focused on that familiar insect—the cricket. Teachers are given a complete gu...

Connect your students to science projects that are intriguing and fun!Let Randi Stone and her award-winning teachers demonstrate tried-and-tested b...

This work presents an ongoing international dialogue about the theory and Practice Of Curriculum Negotiating In The Classroom At Elementary, primar...

Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) is a pedagogical approach that requires students to answer questions related to an upcoming class a few hours beforeha...

However personally committed faculty may be to helping students learn, their students are not always as eager to participate in this endeavor, and ...

Computation, modeling, and simulation practices are commonplace in the STEM workplace, yet formal training embedded in disciplinary practices is no...

This one-stop resource for trainee teachers within the Further Education and Skills Sector (FES) incorporates all the core requirements of the new ...

Games-based teaching offers an engaging way for students and adult learners to interact with concepts and build their problem-solving and communica...

While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new environments for learning, they present many new challenges to faculty because, among oth...

Synthesizing the best current thinking about learning, course design, and promoting student achievement, this is a guide to developing college inst...

Your single-best way to nurture higher-order thinkingThere′s no doubt about it: the Common Core has us scrambling. With all the pressure to acceler...

This edited volume represents a collaborative effort from over 20 authors worldwide, who generously shared their expertise and insights on diversit...

Advanced Placement Classroom: A Midsummer Night's Dream takes students inside Shakespeare's well-loved comedy by providing teachers and students wi...

As societal expectations about attending college have grown, professors report increasing numbers of students who are unprepared for the rigors of ...