Teaching
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Author:Brady, MarionSummary:What's Worth Learning? addresses the central question of general education. For learners facing a complex, unpredictable, and dangerous future, it asks and answers the question: What knowledge is absolutely essential for every learner?...
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Author:Summary:Offers research stories of teachers and teacher educators who explore their own artistic and analytic practices in many settings. Contributors promote the development of arts-based narrative inquiries by using many artistic forms....
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Author:Kohl, HerbertSummary:In more than forty books on subjects ranging from social justice to mathematics, morality to parenthood, Herb Kohl has earned a place as one of our foremost "educators who write." With Marian Wright Edelman, Mike Rose, Lisa Delpit, and...
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Author:McGuire, Charles, Abitz, DianaSummary:The Best Advice Ever for Teachers offers a collection of the best thoughts, ideas, methods and aphorisms from the past and present for today's teacher. This book blends the observations of contemporary educators with words of wisdom...
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Author:Hooks, BellSummary:In Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to “transgress” against racial, sexual, and class...
- Author:Davidson, Sara Florence, Ferguson, Katya AdamovSummary:
Bring Indigenous pedagogies into your classroom with the books in the Sk̲ad'a Stories and this accompanying teacher guide.
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Author:Booth, DavidSummary:This resource explores ways for teachers to use drama and story to engage students in learning through all areas of the curriculum. Organized around proven ways to use all types of stories, each chapter feaures effective frameworks and...
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Author:Kelley, W. MichaelSummary:Navigate politics, paperwork, and legal issues Find your instructional style and make learning fun for your students! Gain the upper hand on your first day of school! This friendly guide reveals what they didn't teach you in your...
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Author:Gear, AdrienneSummary:A simple approach to teaching reading comprehension with effective strategies to help students think while they read. This practical book features chapters on the five powerful reading/thinking strategies — connecting, questioning,...
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Designed to facilitate reflective practice among FSL educators, this text and connects current research, theory, and classroom practice as it relates to literacy and french-as-a-second language teaching and learning.
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This collection of papers examines the relationship between the teaching of language and the teaching of literature to non-native students. The book attempts to identify key theoretical issues and principles as a basis for further...
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Author:Tanaka, Michele TDSummary:Across Canada, teachers unfamiliar with Aboriginal approaches to learning are seeking ways to respectfully weave Aboriginal content into their lessons. This book introduces an indigenist approach to education. It recounts how pre-...
- Author:Pratt, Daniel D.Summary:
This work is derived from several years studying the teaching of adults in Asia and North America. It presents five different perspectives on teaching adults. Each perspective is described as a set of actions, intentions and beliefs,...
- Author:Katz, JenniferSummary:
In an educational milieu in which standards and accountability hold sway, schools can become places of stress, marginalization, and isolation instead of learning communities that nurture a sense of meaning and purpose. In Ensouling Our...
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Author:Summary:This major textbook provides an exciting and authoritative introduction to one of the most important fields of political science. Featuring contributions from key international experts, Comparative Politics examines a wide range of...
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Author:Summary:This volume presents six alternative approaches to studying second language acquisition -- 'alternative' in the sense that they contrast with and/or complement the cognitivism pervading the field. All six approaches -- sociocultural,...
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Author:Greene, ElizabethSummary:Judith, at fifty, feels that her life is irremediably stalled, and she is depressed. Although she has a secure job teaching English at a university, she is the single mother of a son on the autistic spectrum who has been lurching...
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Author:Essif, LesSummary:Part memoir of the author's early life--including his experience as a New York City cop and a US Border Patrol agent before he became a college professor--and part polemical discussions of a host of diverse topics, from aging,...
