Becoming an Effective Teacher in America
Should you become a teacher? This book helps you decide and shows you how to become an effective resource for your students. Learn how to build a teaching philosophy, motivate learners, manage your classroom, and navigate the challenges facing today’s teachers.
This volume brings together the best papers from the International Conference on Education, Reflection and Development. Scholars discuss topics relevant for teacher training and didactic research in the context of globalization, of interest to anyone in education.
Tackling Online Education
Leading experts from eight countries discuss how national policy responses to COVID-19 shaped higher education. This book offers solutions to common problems like Zoom fatigue and lack of student engagement, and provides techniques for effective online teaching and learning.
Kindergarten Readiness for All
This book provides a framework for kindergarten teachers to support young children in their transition to school. It offers strategies to involve families, use assessment information, and teach social skills, providing concrete supports for children with a wide range of needs.
The Beginning Teacher’s K-6 Classroom
This book focuses on the purpose, theory, and practice of teaching. It explores learning theories, unlocking creativity, and the practical “nuts and bolts” of classroom management. An extremely helpful guide for beginning elementary teachers and teacher candidates.
The Professional Doctorate in Education
This book explores how professional doctorate programmes in education challenge and strengthen professional identities, knowledge, and practices. It offers useful and provocative insights for EdD students and for the colleagues who design and deliver these programmes.
This book expands universal design beyond physical spaces to focus on teaching and learning practice in higher education. Drawing on international expertise, it offers practical solutions for practitioners keen to enhance their practice and, as a consequence, student outcomes.
This book addresses the changing nature of research methodologies in mathematics, science, health and environmental education. It has a singular focus on methodology as something worth considering in itself, bringing methodology to the forefront of educational research.
Higher education is an important part of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This volume brings together research, teaching experiences, and reflections on actions taken in higher education institutes associated with these SDGs.
This volume introduces 10 different teaching approaches—including Montessori, Reggio Emilia, and Waldorf Pedagogy—that emerged from great transformations in schooling. It will appeal to students and researchers in the field of education and educational sciences.
A vital guide for higher education administrators and international students. It blends empirical findings, personal experiences, and cultural insights to enhance global learning and cross-cultural understanding.
This book guides the switch from traditional source-based optical radiation measurements to more efficient, higher-accuracy detector-based applications. It covers improved standards from the UV to the IR range, enabling low-uncertainty radiometric and photometric measurements.
Collaborative Working in Academic Research Projects
This guide to the principles of socioformation offers insights into collaborative working for building knowledge and research. It provides the reader with a clear analysis of collaborative processes, distinguishing them from cooperative working.
Answering questions like “Will I ever use this?,” this book shows why learning is most effective through experience. It provides the tools needed to make better use of experiences to improve teaching and learning.
Romanowski introduces intercultural communication, giving examples of classroom activities, as well as presenting empirical research. He offers a novel model of intercultural sensitivity assessment and outlines the results of intercultural communicative competence research.
This compendium is a clear reflection of the realities and dynamics of language teaching in Iranian classrooms and the new trends within the Iranian EFL community over the last decade. It covers a variety of recent topics within the context of English language teaching in Iran.
Learning Spaces for Inclusion and Social Justice
Stemming from a Nordic research project conducted in Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, this anthology draws lessons from success stories of individual immigrant students and whole school communities in developing learning contexts that are equitable and socially just.
This collection of essays discusses how formal, non-formal and informal education contributed to the creation and perpetuation of the Cyprus conflict, as well as to prejudices, inter-ethnic stereotypes, and misperceptions.
The 21st century demands new skills: media literacy, leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. However, their relationship with education is not yet fully established. This book discusses these skills through studies in the context of Turkey.
This monograph offers a thorough discussion of the relevance of incorporating robotics into the 21st century classroom. It explores essential topics including outcome-based education, robotics technology, its use in education, and its theoretical underpinnings, among others.