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Presents cooperative learning as a strategy within a framework of other practices, deals with student interaction patterns and presents ideas for getting started with cooperative learning.
"This book focuses on increasing the reader' s understanding of how effective teachers prevent and respond to misbehaviour to create a learning environment that encourages student learning." - back cover.
Knowledge of the processes of educational change is said to be the missing ingredient in attempts to bring about educational innovation and reform. Whether these efforts involve grass roots innovation or large-scale societal reform, failure to understand and act on existing knowledge of the change process has accounted for the widespread lack of success in making educational improvements. This volume analyzes what is known about successful or productive change processes, and identifies corresponding action strategies at the individual, school, local and state levels. Included in this book is a major treatment of the topic of the 'ethics of planned change', a neglected topic in recent literature, especially since strategies for intervening in the change process are receiving more attention. This book is intended to be used by teachers in training and in service, teacher trainers, educational researchers, education historians and administrators.
The first report from a study of high schools.
Reports on the research findings of the Teacher Education Project, analysing classroom case studies which looked at students as good and bad class managers, at students' very first encounters with classes and at their handling of classes.
The focus of this book is on how knowledge of instruction can assist in responding to that never-ending press to create meaningful and powerful learning environments. Another perspective is a personal reflection that reflects our own evolution and current understanding about creating meaningful learning environments.
Draws on neuroscientific research to provide advice on creating brain-compatible classrooms for middle school and high school; and includes case studies.
Social organization varies greatly from school to school, and this variation fosters different, though equally valid, conceptions of teaching. In this book, the author presents problems and successes that recur in 78 diverse elementary schools.
This is a book for teachers, by teachers, from elementary school to university level classrooms. It is about the use of creative instructional strategies in K-12 classroom settings, and the transformations the teachers made in their journeys from being traditional practitioners to “becoming pedagogical” in their approaches to teaching and learning across the curriculum. Over twenty teachers conducted research in their classrooms on the implementation of creative strategies, tactics, graphics organizers, and visual journals in teaching and learning. They have written their inquiries in a narrative style, informed by various forms of arts based educational research. Their research is appro...