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The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Contributions of Research Universities
This anthology presents the best papers delivered at three conferences sponsored by the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning program at Indiana University Bloomington. The SOTL program is a systematic research and research-based program aimed at deepen...
MPN: aad008a30402550906676e8a61993cb1
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MasterClass in Music Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning
MasterClass in Music Education "provides vivid, topical, reflective and above all 'real' accounts from existing teachers researching in the field, together with theoretical insights and a guided view of the relevant existing literature. Students embarking upon research will gain a many-faceted understanding of the possibilities for using action research and other research methods to explore the interesting and challenging issues confronting music education. At the same time, they will be able to develop an ...
MPN: 6f7a7aa7214fe68c172738e2624f92b3
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Six Degrees of Education: From Teaching in Mumbai to Investment Research in New York
Ignatius Chithelen views himself as a goat rather than as an Asian Tiger - he read Dostoevsky instead of mastering calculus, while in college in Mumbai. Though he got six degrees, his going to college was perhaps an accident. He provides an unorthodox road map for changing careers, while discussing his jobs. He moved from journalism in Mumbai and New York to investment research at SoGen fund. It was run by a Frenchman who was a rare boss on Wall Street. As he discusses his education, Chithelen offers insigh...
MPN: bcab7d57b43d4b3d60eeb466ffd84565
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Talis New Insights from Talis 2013: Teaching and Learning in Primary and Upper Secondary Education
This report offers a broader view of teachers and school principals across all levels of compulsory education, and all the similarities and differences in the issues they are facing.
MPN: cf4eaeec6a35e097aaeef5db1ca1607b
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Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning
Universities continue to struggle in their efforts to fully integrate information and communications technology within their activities. Based on examination of current practices in technology integration at 25 universities worldwide, this book argues for...
MPN: b87ae90d21b36d49b374b912dba1ffba
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Articles on Mathematics Education Reform, Including: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Constance Kamii, Saxon (Teaching Method) , Core-Plus
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant...
MPN: d8767cf0b1fda482f24f0daa8a4bda3a
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Foundations of Early Childhood Education: Teaching Children in a Diverse Society
Foundations of Early Childhood Education: Teaching Children in a Diverse Society" is designed to help increase the quality in early care and education programs through training teachers. It features skill building with a solid theoretical base, and provi...
MPN: b55e63aa36759c31e22c18fe39c71328
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New Perspectives in Primary Education: Meaning and Purpose in Learning and Teaching
This text is intended to provide reflective primary teachers, teachers in training and researchers with insight into new ways of thinking about and developing primary education.
MPN: 6984fccfde70678f7ccac463cf3a7957
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Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change
Ira Shor is a pioneer in the field of critical education who for over twenty years has been experimenting with learning methods. His work creatively adapts the ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire for North American classrooms. In "Empowering Educatio...
MPN: be98574396be458e28e8adb0178943eb
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Comprehensive School Health Education: Totally Awesome Strategies for Teaching Health
The most widely used college health education text and teacher resource book, "Comprehensive School Health Education" provides everything needed to teach health in grades in grades K-12. This text prepares teachers to design and implement a curriculum that integrates the 2007 National Health Education Standards (NHES) , the six categories of risk behavior identified by the CDC, and the ten content areas of school health. Included are Totally Awesome Teaching Strategies (TM) , reproducible Teaching Masters, ...
MPN: c4652c5eb2cdff461653c1af7668269a
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Building a Science of Nursing Education: Foundation for Evidence-Based Teaching-Learning
Building the Science of Nursing Education: Foundation for Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning" is the culmination of a seven-year project by the NLN Task Group on Teaching-Learning Paradigms. The contributors, all seasoned nurse educator-scholars, thoro...
MPN: 48a6792ec39f948dc13aa308959d8b3a
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High-Impact Teaching Strategies for the 'XYZ' Era of Education
In today's classrooms, the teacher/student divide isn't just generational - it is "digital." Exposure to digital technology from birth hard-wires the human brain to learn differently. For 21st Century learners, traditional 'chalk and talk' instruction belongs to a bygone era. Instead, these students need interactive teaching strategies. This book offers 26 proven, interactive strategies to help teachers improve academic results, student engagement and classroom behavior. Importantly, while replicating many ...
MPN: 56651d23c20d2da6c07e5f4a9b69d07c