Posts Tagged ‘Teaching’

Textbooks and the Students Who Can’t Read Them: A Guide for the Teaching of Content

June 2nd, 2010

Textbooks and the Students Who Can't Read Them: A Guide for the Teaching of Content (Cognitive Strategy Training Series)

Classroom teachers are faced with an immediate dilemma: how to engage their students in the content of teaching and inspire them to study, when so many lack the skills to read and easily understand the content. It has also become clear that assigning readings, lecturing, and then asking questions is an ineffective way to teach them. This book proposes how to involve low readers more effectively in textbook learning. It presents instructional techniques to improve students’ willingness to work in mainstream textbooks–particularly those students with low reading skills. These techniques optimize learning of new content by focusing on three phases: Teachers *prepare* the student for new learning (Before Reading), *help* them (During Reading), and then help them *integrate* the new learning into what they already know (After Reading). The net effect of providing these active “handles” for learning from text is to maintain the confidence and motivation of the low-reading
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Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History

June 1st, 2010

Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History (Multicultural Education Series) (Multicultural Education (Paper))

In this follow-up to his landmark bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen continues to break silences and change our perspectives on U. S. history. Loewen takes history textbooks to task for their perpetuations of myth and their lack of awareness of today’s multicultural student audience (not to mention the astonishing number of facts they just got plain wrong). How did people get here? Why did Europe win? Why Did the South Secede? In Teaching What Really Happened, Loewen goes beyond the usual textbook-dominated viewpoints to illuminate a wealth of intriguing, often hidden facts about America’s past. Calling for a new way to teach history, this book will help teachers move beyond traditional textbooks to tackle difficult but important topics like conflicts with Native Americans, slavery, and race relations. Throughout, Loewen shows time and again how teaching what really happened connects better with all kin
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Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies, Grades 5-12

April 9th, 2010

Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies, Grades 5-12

Review

“An excellent guide for making history a compelling subject to students through the use of sleuthing and crime analysis metaphors and techniques. Any teacher using the models outlined in the book will find his or her classes more exciting for all involved. ” (Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. , Professor )”Great teachers are national treasures, and Yohuru Williams is one of them. In this book he shares ideas and teaching methods. He also includes some terrific historic vignettes. ” (Joy Hakim, Author )”No longer is history something to be ingested and regurgitated on a test, but rather something that absorbs the intellectual imagination of the learner. That is a rare quality in good teaching. The author has done a marvelous job of bridging what are otherwise conflicting paradigms. ” (Lynn E. Nielsen, Professor of Education )”This book offers experienced social studies teachers endless ideas and inspiration to revitalize their classrooms so that students look forward to learn
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Teaching Nursing: Developing A Student-Centered Learning Environment

January 23rd, 2010

Teaching Nursing: Developing A Student-Centered Learning Environment

This text offers nurse educators a comprehensive conceptual and practical introduction to student-centered pedagogies and their classroom and clinical applications. The book examines the complexities of teaching and learning nursing, explains the theoretical foundations of student-centered learning, describes various methods and models for student-centered learning in nursing, and explores the issues and challenges of constructing nursing curricula and implementing student-centered pedagogies. Practical examples of learning activities are presented throughout the book in chapter boxes. “Doody’s Core Titles™ 2009. ”

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Teaching Law by Design: Engaging Students from the Syllabus to the Final Exam

December 27th, 2009

Teaching Law by Design: Engaging Students from the Syllabus to the Final Exam

Professors Michael Hunter Schwartz, Sophie Sparrow and Gerry Hess, three leaders in the teaching and learning movement in legal education, have collaborated to offer a new book designed to synthesize the latest research on teaching and learning for new and experienced law teachers.   The book begins with basic principles of teaching and learning theory, provides insights into how law students experience traditional law teaching, and then guides law teachers through the entire process of teaching a course. The topics addressed include: how to plan a course; how to design a syllabus and select a text; how to plan individual class sessions; how to engage and motivate students, even those tough-to-crack second- and third-year students; how to use a wide variety of teaching techniques; how to evaluate student learning, both for the purposes of assigning grades and of improving student learning; and how to be a lifelong learner as a teacher.

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Handbook of Clinical Teaching in Nursing and Health Sciences

December 16th, 2009

Handbook of Clinical Teaching in Nursing and Health Sciences

Due to the a growing nursing faculty shortage, clinicians are being recruited directly from the practice setting for clinical teaching without formal training in educational strategies. Handbook of Clinical Teaching in Nursing and Health Sciences serves as a quick-reference for support of clinical teaching for nurses and other health professionals. It allows a clinical instructor to identify a question about clinical teaching and quickly get ideas about how to effectively handle a situation or create the best learning environment within the clinical context.

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Practical Teaching in Emergency Medicine

December 14th, 2009

Practical Teaching in Emergency Medicine

Review

“This excellent book covers the major ideas and theories of teaching in the emergency department. As the first book of its kind, it will become the benchmark. ” (Doody’s Reviews, June 2009)

Inherent to the teaching and practice of emergency medicine are specific challenges not found in other specialties - the unknowns of the emergency department, the need to identify life- and limb-threatening conditions, the pressure to solve problems and find solutions quickly, and the orchestration of clinical specialists and ancillary services. Because of these unique demands, books written by clinicians from other disciplines, that extrapolate their information from other specialties, aren’t always suitable references for teachers of emergency medicine. This book is different – it shows how to incorporate effective teaching strategies into the unique teaching atmosphere of the emergency department, how to effectively lecture, lead small groups, give f
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The Seven Laws of Teaching

November 17th, 2009

The Seven Laws of Teaching (1886)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter III. THE LAW OF THE LEARNER. 1. Passing from the side of the teacher to the side of the pupil, our next inquiry is for the Law of the Learner. Here the search must be for that one characteristic, if there be such, which divides and differentiates the learner from other persons — for that essential element which makes the learner a learner. Let us place before us the successful scholar, and note carefully whatever is peculiar and essential in his action and attributes. His intent look, his absorbed manner, his face full of eager action or of profound study, — all these are but so many signs of deep interest and active attention. This interest and attention, the inseparable parts of one mental state, make up the essential attribute of every true learner. The very power to
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Methods for Teaching Foreign Languages: Creating a Community of Learners in the Classroom

August 24th, 2009

Methods for Teaching Foreign Languages: Creating a Community of Learners in the Classroom
Only in socio-cultural approach to language learning, this comprehensive book based on the standards of national communication for language learning. It aims to provide readers with the knowledge and skills to establish and maintain effective communities of students in the language classroom. Communication, development communication; Creating Communities of students in class, class ratio, educational planning and evaluation, interpersonal functioning, the way of interpretation, the form of improving the training skills. For new secondary teachers and high level of modern foreign languages. From the back cover in the exclusive sociocultural approach to language learning, this comprehensive book based on the standards of national communication for language learning. It aims to provide readers with the knowledge and skills to establish and maintain effective classroom communities of Ica foreign language
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Teaching Foreign Languages in the Block

August 23rd, 2009

Teaching Foreign Languages in the Block (Teaching in the Block)
Provides detailed teaching strategies, lesson plans and evaluation of samples, so that language teachers can make better use of overtime.
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