Teaching Skills & Techniques

As the online world of creative writing teaching, learning, and collaborating grows in popularity and necessity, this book explores the challenges ...

In Brighter Beginnings for Teachers, Patty Pullen identifies the issues that send teachers screaming from the profession, including the primary pro...

According to experts in educational measurement, current and past performance remains the best single predictor of future performance. This book se...

FAQs for TAs is a friendly and accessible guide covering the core questions that both new and existing teaching assistants may have about their job...

With an estimated 1.6 million English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners in the UK, and over 5 million in the USA, EAL research is urgently n...

Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this fully updated new edition of Designing Learning offers accessible guidance to help those new to ...

It is now widely recognized that learners are more successful when they are active participants in the learning relationship. This book offers a ge...

The book brings together for the first time a range of integrated essays produced out of a programme of research and scholarship designed to better...

Teaching Mindfulness to Teens as a Path of Empowerment is a teacher-level perspective on mindfulness instruction that has systems-level implication...

In calling this book Beyond the Culture Tours, the authors bring the reader's attention to a set of issues in the teaching of literature and cultur...

The Myth of Education in America contends that formal education should be “how you learn” not only “what you learn”. It emphasizes that utilization...

Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) involves children in school consciously assisting others to learn, and in so doing learning more effectively themselve...

This highly practical guide provides information that will help research students avoid needless mistakes. It informs and advises you about many of...

Ferrara, Jacobson, and their colleagues illuminate how community schools become a comprehensive, place-based strategy that both supports high-quali...

Inclusive Education includes two sections: readings and cases. The readings present approaches for creating inclusive classrooms and schools; their...

Stories from the Heart is for, by, and about prospective and practicing teachers understanding themselves as curious and literate beings, making co...

This book--a companion volume to Inclusive Education: A Casebook and Readings for Prospective and Practicing Teachers--is designed to assist instru...

The ID CaseBook provides instructional design students with 25 realistic, open-ended case studies that encourage adept problem-solving across a var...

Teaching Mindfulness to Teens as a Path of Empowerment is a teacher-level perspective on mindfulness instruction that has systems-level implication...

ConnectED Leaders is a call to action for superintendents and school system leaders to grow lead and engage in professional leadership networks. Th...

From lesson planning to instructional practice to classroom management, teachers must make choices constantly throughout their day. Sometimes thes...

Major changes on what we teach kids are taking place: from white privilege, to subliminal racism; from gender studies in the first grade, to the de...

This book answers the questions on what must be done to meet the educational goals required to maintain our democratic form of government, provide ...

This volume presents a complex portrait of the American teacher through a fascinating range of "story" narratives, including fictional short storie...

Forest School is a popular approach to young children playing and learning outside, which has become particularly important in the current climate ...

How can a potato be a battery?How quickly will a shark find you?What food should you take with you when climbing a mountain?The Really Useful Book ...

This is a book that looks at how drama has its basis in good early years practice. Most early years practitioners are doing some drama and are edgi...

The book reviews and examines students’ motivations and emotions in Chinese science classrooms.By adopting different approaches such as content ana...

The Myth of Education in America contends that formal education should be “how you learn” not only “what you learn”. It emphasizes that utilization...

This volume contains content and achievement standards for music, dance, theatre, and visual arts for grades K-12. Developed by the Consortium of N...

At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist assimilation, and evoke ...

As a school ethnography, this book explores the controversial schooling practices and strategies embedded in charter school management organization...

This entry in the James H. Stronge Research-to-Practice Series focuses on specific strategies teachers can use to improve the quality of their inst...

Turn your classroom into a thriving community of learners! In The Passion-Driven Classroom, bestselling authors Angela Maiers and Amy Sandvold show...

This book stresses the integration of the school library media center with the work of the classroom. She explores the general principles and dynam...

Grounded in recent research on the challenges of working with two-year-olds, Places for Two-year-olds in the Early Years explores how this often ov...

Research-based theories provide the basis for good decision-making in education. As well, teacher effectiveness and student learning are enhanced ...

Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) involves children in school consciously assisting others to learn, and in so doing learning more effectively themselve...

Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spa...

Leading Schools Through Trauma is a data-driven resource for education leaders and administrators preparing to help students heal from acute trauma...

This nationally recognized school finance expert has teamed up with a CHOICE award winning author to write a comprehensive book on managing school ...

Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) is a unique, classroom-tested model of reading instruction that breaks new ground by explicitly showing...

The Educator's Guide to Substance Abuse Prevention is for educators and other school personnel who are concerned about student drug use and school ...

This fun and engaging guide invites you to use sound-making as a collaborative, play-based practice in your early childhood classroom—first to tran...

What do people learn from visiting museums and how do they learn it? The editors approach this question by focusing on conversations as both the pr...

Appropriate classroom management is the base for an effective teaching/learning process. The practical help offered in this guidebook is based on e...

Here is a typical classroom scenario: out of the thirty children, two-thirds speak a different language at home and only speak English at school. E...