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Author: Anthony B. Pinn, Caroline Field Levander & Michael O. Emerson

This book considers how interdisciplinary conversation, critique, and collaboration enrich and transform humanities and social science education for those teaching and studying traditional Americanist fields. The transit ...

Author: Samuel Totten & Stephen Feinberg

"Teaching and Studying the Holocaust" is comprised of thirteen chapters by some of the most noted Holocaust educators in the United States. In addition to chapters on establishing clear rationales for teaching this histo ...

Author: John Blanchard

Teachers, school managers and governors are now more publicly accountable than ever. They are expected to know how their school is performing and how to improve that performance. Target setting is a key tool in the dr ...

Author: Andy Armitage, Jane Evershed, Robin Bryant & others

"Like good teacher education itself, this book is a carefully crafted mix of theory and practice. It is vital for all those entering this complex sector to understand its history, some of the key philosophies and conce ...

Author: Andy Armitage, Robin Bryant, Richard Dunnill & others

'...clearly written, well organised, easy to use, practical and accessible for both new and continuing teachers' - "The Lecturer". The third edition of this bestselling text examines the breadth of post-compulsory educat ...

Author: O'Connor

This guide focuses on using Document Based Questions (DBQs) to challenge students to interpret primary sources such as letters, diaries, speeches and other historical records.

Challenge your students to interpret p ...

Author: Terry Russell

As well as discussing the effective teaching of ICT as a curriculum subject, the author uses sample case studies to illustrate the wider role at Key Stages 3 and 4, for GCSE and for post-16 in the form of VCE. He advises ...

Author: Karen M Hubert

Genre fiction is finally given its due, with 3 to 5 essays for each genre style, filled with exercises and student samples. This fun loving T&W classic was designed to help teachers expand their writing curricula with po ...

Author: Richard English

There is increasing emphasis on the importance of arithmetical skills and this text enables trainee primary teachers to build their own confidence in arithmetic to enhance their teaching of it. Focused on the teaching of ...

Author: Bernice McCarthy & Dennis McCarthy

'4MAT has transformed my teachers from adequate to outstanding' - Robin Kvalo, Principal, Rusch Elementary School, Portage, WI 'Principals and teachers have continually requested 4MAT training as the 'basic core' of know ...

Author: Gloria Callaway & Mary Kear

Provides a comprehensive guide to resourcing and planning a broad, balanced art and design curriculum. The text sets out underlying principles for effective practice, offers individual chapters on drawing, printmaking, p ...

Author: Rob Barnes

This second edition of a classic and popular book includes new chapters, figures and colour plates. The book blends practical ideas with sound principles of art education. For the teacher or trainee-teacher looking for i ...

Author: Darcie Clark Frohardt

Using more than 100 illustrations from 20 Caldecott Medal or Honor books, this delightful resource provides teachers with all the tools necessary for teaching art. Classroom teachers will find that the explanations of ar ...

Author: Charles Wankel

This book covers a wide range of approaches to applying social media in teaching arts and science courses. The first part of the book, Social Learning and Networking Approaches to Teaching Arts & Science, covers collabor ...

Author: Diana Laurillard

Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next generation. Teachers in the twenty-first century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technologi ...

Author: Diana Laurillard

Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next generation. Teachers in the twenty-first century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technologi ...

Author: Cynthia G. Hawkins

Teaching as a Lifestyle is dedicated to the "spirit" of transformation through the individual gifts that we possess. It gives an overview of the author's educational journey here in America: hoping that the reader will r ...

Author: Marjorie Spock

The author, an experienced Waldorf teacher and eurythmist, radiates her enthusiasm and sense for beauty as she takes us through the various stages of development of the child. She shows us that "ripeness is all, " that n ...

Author: Geoffrey Squires

This work argues that the lack of agreed theory of teaching is one of the most important and yet intractable problems facing education. Questions of training and assessment currently take place according to the criteria ...

Author: Ian Westbury, Stefann Hopmann & Kurt Riquarts

This volume presents a mix of translations of classical and modern papers from the German Didaktik tradition, newly prepared essays by German scholars and practitioners writing from within the tradition, and interpretive ...