How can teachers make sound pedagogical decisions and advocate for educational policies that best serve the needs of students in today's diverse classrooms? What is the pedagogical value of providing culturally and linguistically diverse students greater access to their own lang…
by Brown, G.
fromApplied Linguistics and Language Study
"Through the use of dramatic narratives, The Drama of DNA brings to life the complexieites raised by the application of genomic technologies to health care and diagnosis. This creative, pedagogical approach shines a unique light on the ethical, psychosocial, and policy challenge…
Religious educators today are called upon to enable young people to develop as fully-rounded human beings in a multicultural and multi-faith world. It is no longer sufficient to teach about the history of religions: religion is not relegated to the past. It is no longer sufficie…
A faculty member publishes an article without offering coauthorship to a graduate assistant who has made a substantial conceptual or methodological contribution to the article. A professor does not permit graduate students to express viewpoints different from her own. A graduate…
The Author presents a case for implementing a mastery learning science classroom and then shows us how to do it. Using research-based student performance data, Morgan compiles impressive statistics that support her assertion, Mastery learning results in improved student learning…
A high level of literacy in both print and digital media is required for negotiating most aspects of 21st-century life, including supporting a family, education, health, civic participation, and competitiveness in the global economy. Yet, more than 90 million U.S. adults lack ad…
Go in depth on Common Core Standards for middle schools to learn how they help students build on and extend skills acquired in earlier grades and prepare them for the nuanced communication and analytical work they will encounter in high school. Getting a copy for every teacher e…
The Guidelines for Good Practice of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (ealta) stress the importance of collaboration between all parties involved in the process of developing instruments, activities and programmes for testing and assessment. Collaborat…
Over the coming decades, every academic discipline will have to respond to the paradigm of more sustainable life practices because students will be living in a world challenged by competition for resources and climate change, and will demand that every academic discipline demons…
by Schwartz, Michael Hunter, Hess, Gerald F., Sparrow, Sophie
What makes a great law professor? This study identifies the methods, strategies, and personal traits of professors whose students achieve exceptional learning. What the Best Law Teachers Do introduces readers to twenty-six professors from law schools across the United States. Th…
'Teaching Epidemiology' is written for those who are teaching epidemiology for the first time or for those who have to teach a new course in epidemiology. The book covers core issues as well as disease or exposure oriented topics, and provides a carefully selected set of reading…
This book examines new research on how classroom response systems are being used in higher education to increase learner engagement in an epoch of increasing globalisation and diversity. These enabling technologies are reshaping and reframing the practice of teaching and learnin…
by WIlson, Mark, Woods, Kerry, Griffin, Patrick, Darling-Hammond, Linda, Care, Esther, Griffin, Patrick, (ed), Care, Esther, (ed), Adams, Raymond, Adamson, Frank, Ahonen, Arto K., Awwal, Nafisa, Buder, Juergen, Bui, Myvan, Bujanda, Maria Eugenia, Campos, Elsie, Cheah, Horn Mun, Comfort, Kathleen, Hardin, Susan-Marie, Hesse, Friedrich, Kankaanranta, Marja, Lim, Pik Yen, Mountain, Roz, Ng, Hui Leng, Poon, Chew Leng, Sassenberg, Kai, Scalise, Kathleen, Scalise, Sam, Schonau, Diederik, Scoular, Claire, Tan, Sean, Vista, Alvin, Zoanetti, Nathan
fromEducational Assessment in an Information Age
This second volume of papers from the ATC21STM project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills. Readers are guided through a detailed description of the methods used in this process. The major elements of this new volume are the ide…
Use this handbook in self-help, study group, and teacher workshop situations to implement the research-based classroom management practices from the ascd best-seller "Classroom Management That Works". The authors guide you through the classroom management approaches that support…
The "gold standard" for evaluation and testing in nursing education, this revision helps educators measure and evaluate the level of learning that their students have achieved and presents fundamental concepts of what constitutes reliable tools and rubrics for measuring students…
