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This book is intended for faculty and faculty developers, as well as for deans, chairs, and directors responsible for promoting teaching and learning in higher education. Intentionally non-technical, it engages readers reflectively with a process for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634459792Author David MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Chalkboard PublishingPublisher Chalkboard PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Become mind-fit for life! Learning is learnable! Educators can explicitly teach not just content, knowledge and skills, but also positive learning attitudes and habits of mind. Guy Claxton's The Learning Power Approach will help teachers understand...

The coverage is complete, ranging from finding a mentor to working with parents. The book is meant to be short and sweet, and it is."-Lori L. Grossman, Instructional CoordinatorHouston Independent School District, TX "Describes ten basic, practical...

While Active Learning Classrooms, or ALCs, offer rich new environments for learning, they present many new challenges to faculty because, among other things, they eliminate the room's central focal point and disrupt the conventional seating plan to which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871203885Author Rita SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 135Imprint Association for Supervision & Curriculum DevelopmentPublisher Association for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871203458Author Giselle O. Martin-KniepFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Association for Supervision & Curriculum DevelopmentPublisher Association...

Brain Gains: So, You Want to Be Your Child's Learning Coach represents the final link to the first two books of the Brain Smart Trilogy. This third book recognizes the learning challenges children face each day in learning environments defined by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087649719Author Kris HinrichsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shell Education PubPublisher Shell Education Pub

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781975502560Author Emily J. KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Stylus PublishingPublisher Stylus Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543465235Author Dr G Victoria NaomiFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 227g

Grounded in research, Vibrant Learning, focuses on language-rich, literacy-based, collaborative classrooms as the foundation for transforming content area learning. The authors emphasize three areas: (1) strategies to support student understanding of...

Teaching in the Age of Disinformation makes a case for the importance of developing students' intelligent habits of mind so that they become more discriminating consumers of the information that comes at them from the Internet, social media, television...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807766545Author Rachel Karchmer-KleinFormat PaperbackImprint Teachers' College PressPublisher Teachers' College Press

This book introduces the Design-Based Research (DBR) methodology to develop a pedagogy named Wiki-based Collaborative Process Writing Pedagogy (WCPWP). Through this, teachers can enrich their teaching knowledge and orchestrate collaborative writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945351396Author Thomas S.C. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint TESOL International AssociationPublisher TESOL International...

To many college professors the words student evaluations trigger mental images of the 'shower scene' from ""Psycho"", with those bloodcurdling screams. They're thinking: ""Why not just whack me now, rather than wait to see...

Packed with current examples and practical insight, Wilson/Dilulio/Bose/Levendusky's AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES, ENHANCED 17th edition, gives you a clear understanding of the U.S. government -- and your role in it. It explains the...

Building on the success of the first, this new edition has been updated to cover the latest hiring trends, changing economic circumstances, and feedback from readers. The authors have expanded the book to deal with issues faced by minority candidates,...

Using Grading to Support Student Learning offers an accessible foundation for using grading practices to support student learning through classroom assessment. Purposeful, defensible grading and reporting mechanisms cannot be neglected in today's reform...

No other teaching experience will feel quite like the first time an instructor walks into a classroom to face a class of students.This book is a wise and friendly guide for new faculty and graduate student instructors who are about to teach for the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684945191Author Rajendra Prasad DobhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.

The modern K-12 teacher's must-have guide to teach students how to ask questions, weigh the evidence, and think critically and independently Students and teachers alike face a dilemma: Why think deeply when we can just take a shortcut by googling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354421099Author Ravi Nandan Sinha Narendra KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

Urban power and politics are topics of abiding interest for students of the city. This exciting collection of essays explores how Europe's cities have been governed across the last 500 years. Taken as a whole, it provides a unique historical overview of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942799856Author Jean ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint TESOL International AssociationPublisher TESOL International AssociationWeight(grams)...

Professors and students seem to come from different planets (or candy bars). Barriers frequently exist that impede their communication, such as age, income and cholesterol level.Humor can break down these barriers so that professors can better connect...

This volume examines the relationship between health literacy and health outcomes, and the role of schools in promoting health literacy through the curriculum. The volume utilizes research, literature reviews and case studies that examine how education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646043569Author Aja HannahFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 152g

Engaging Preschoolers in Mathematics is a guide for teachers and childcare professionals working at the Pre-K level that focuses on engagement with the process standards written by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. You will learn how to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817929329Author Williamson F. EversFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does technology have on student learning? Is distance learning effective? Should I give online tests and, if so, how can I be sure of the integrity of the students' work? These are some of the...

Cousin to The Teaching Portfolio, which documents a broad sampling of a faculty member's pedagogical work, the course portfolio focuses instead on the unfolding of a single course, from conception to results. The volume covers defining features and...

Who says learning can't be fun? Students Fired-up Over Fun Facts: Making Learning Fun is full of fun facts, presented in a quiz format that will have students clamoring to learn more. The multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, and open-ended...

This book addresses the nature of the learner and how to plan and deliver instruction for long term learning. The Field Guide is intended as a tool for administrators, teachers, parents or students as it includes activities and worksheets for planning...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

This book is a methodological guide intended for those who wish to better understand how to conduct research in the education and training sciences. It is organized into three main parts. The first part deals with postures, emphasizing the idea that...

This volume explores the twenty-first century classroom as a uniquely intergenerational space of religious disaffiliation, and questions about how our work in the classroom can be, and is being, re-imagined for the new generation. The culturally hybrid...

The Brighton Conference in 1975 was devoted to an examination of some of the problems arising from the re-organisation of teacher education in a period of economic stringency and widespread cuts in education. The book is divided into four sections. The...

Common Core implementation begins with asking the right questions! While the Common Core couldn't be clearer about what to teach, they never quite tackle how to teach. That's what makes Inquiring into the Common Core such an essential resource. It...