Provides a roadmap for using creative strategies to engage both educators and students in the learning process. Focusing on key qualities... Læs mere
Highlights the value of open questions for differentiating instruction in the K-8 virtual environment; shows teachers... Læs mere
Discover new strategies to create equitable, engaging, interactive classroom environments where students from all backgrounds are motivated to take risks, share their unique perspectives, and develop their own identities as powerful life-long learners.
The Internet offers enormous possibilities for teachers who include discussion of media in their courses. This work contains... Læs mere
Aims help new and veteran teachers develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to successfully address racial controversies in their classrooms. The author explains what race and racism mean and why we need to talk about these topics in schools.
Features real teachers who share their stories, successful practices, and vivid examples of their students' creative and expository writing from online and multimedia projects, such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, electronic poetry, and more.
Drawing from over 20,000 episodes in the longitudinal database of Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow, this book gives case studies and teacher... Læs mere
This is an account of a year-long project between the author and 13 teachers in which they learned from each other to become better teachers. They dealt with issues concerning the day-to-day life of teaching, including coping with difficult pupils and various success stories.
This work probes the topic of teaching as a performing art, focusing on the role of teachers in galvanizing an audience - their students. It argues that teachers will better engage learners if they are prepared in the ""artistry"" of doing so.
Here, Walter Parker offers a contribution to the debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favour a cultural literacy... Læs mere
In this book, Thornton details why teachers must develop strong skills in curriculum planning and teaching methods in order for effective instruction to occur.