Written by international speaker Brad Johnson and school fitness consultant Melody Jones Includes powerful studies on how physical activity in the classroom improves students' brain functioning and engagement Offers activities and games that teachers can use to incorporate physical exercise into their lessons

Written by popular author and consultant Nicki Newton. Based on the bestselling book Guided Math in Action. Contains easy-to-implement activities for fifth grade guided math groups.

Written by popular consultant Julie Hasson Contains powerful stories and takeaways for teachers Provides research-based advice on effective teaching

An Evidence-based Guide to College and University Teaching outlines a definition of "model teaching" based on research evidence and accepted best practices in high education. Teachers at all levels of skill and experience can benefit from clear, objective guidelines for defining and measuring quality teaching. To fulfil this need, this book outlines six fundamental areas of teaching competency-model teaching characteristics-and provides detailed definitions of each characteristic. The authors define these essential characteristics as training, course content, the assessment process, instructional methods, syllabus construction, and the use of student evaluations. This guide outlines through research and supplemental evidence how each characteristic can be used toward tenure, promotion, teaching portfolios, and general professional development. Additional features include a self-assessment tool that corresponds to the model teaching characteristics, case studies illustrating common teaching problems, and lists of "must reads" about college teaching. An Evidence-based Guide to College and University Teaching describes how college faculty from all disciplines and at all levels of their career - from graduate students to late-career faculty - can use the model teaching characteristics to evaluate, guide, and improve their teaching. The book is additionally useful for teachers, trainers, and administrators responsible for promoting excellence in college teaching.

Written by popular consultant Julie Hasson Contains powerful stories and takeaways for teachers Provides research-based advice on effective teaching

- Provides information for teachers and school leaders to better understand what is meant by 'curriculum' and what a creative curriculum might look like in each individual school - Includes chapters on curriculum intent, implementation and impact, as well has how to create a broad and balanced curriculum - Offers practical ideas for busy teachers than can be adapted to a variety of themes and subjects - Useful resource for parents, including parent overviews to show how keeping parents involved is an important element to teaching and learning

- Provides information for teachers and school leaders to better understand what is meant by 'curriculum' and what a creative curriculum might look like in each individual school - Includes chapters on curriculum intent, implementation and impact, as well has how to create a broad and balanced curriculum - Offers practical ideas for busy teachers than can be adapted to a variety of themes and subjects - Useful resource for parents, including parent overviews to show how keeping parents involved is an important element to teaching and learning

1. This practical guide provides all of the information practitioners need to consider when making the decision to engage with young children and their carers. 2. This is the first book to provide practical guidance on how to attract young children and their carers into the museum. This will ensure that the book is essential reading for experienced and junior professionals, who are working in museums large and small around the world. 3. There is no competition to this book. Drawing on current neurological research and best practices in early childhood education and development, this guide presents case studies from a variety of different institutions around the world and will be truly unique as a result.

Winner of the ELATE Richard A. Meade Award 2018 Identifying key areas of teacher education that cross countries and disciplines, this book provides the first extensive research-based insight into how secondary English teachers are prepared at institutions of higher education in the United States of America (US) since the last major study in 1995. In the two decades since then, English teacher education programs have developed in contextually dependent ways that often have been driven by institutional, economic, social and political considerations. The authors provide an overview of their nationwide study of English teacher educators, which was conducted over a four-year period. They analyze the context under which teacher educators currently prepare pre-service English teachers in the US and support teacher educators in other countries to make comparisons to their own unique historical and cultural settings. The authors also offer a comprehensive evaluation of the content, practices and skills being taught to future teachers of English in university-based teacher preparation programs in the US. The book draws on evidence from a nationwide questionnaire, case studies of teacher educators in their respective programs, course syllabi and focus group interviews to focus on areas of instruction that resonate with teacher educators in countries where English is the dominant language of communication. These areas include: - field experiences - standards and assessment - teaching literacy to integrate reading and writing - working with English language learners to address cultural and linguistic diversity - new technologies in English education

* Provides models of curricular integration and assessment practices to inform the design of and research on computational tools and practices. * Addresses critical areas of computational thinking such as challenges in implementation and unsubstantiated claims for effectiveness. * Covers a diversity of perspectives including unplugged CT, CT as a vehicle for learning, and CT in and across subjects.

* Synthesizes a range of creative and innovative teaching strategies under the theme of risk and uncertainty. * Speaks to our current condition-global disruption, extreme uncertainty, and the need for innovation to create both opportunities and challenges for students and professors. * Focused on practice, this book provides time-tested and evidence-based models, ideas, strategies, and tools to apply in a range of educational contexts. * The book uses specific examples and stories from a variety of educational places and disciplines to inspire, spark creativity, and encourage risk-taking and innovation in the and out of the classroom.

* Synthesizes a range of creative and innovative teaching strategies under the theme of risk and uncertainty. * Speaks to our current condition-global disruption, extreme uncertainty, and the need for innovation to create both opportunities and challenges for students and professors. * Focused on practice, this book provides time-tested and evidence-based models, ideas, strategies, and tools to apply in a range of educational contexts. * The book uses specific examples and stories from a variety of educational places and disciplines to inspire, spark creativity, and encourage risk-taking and innovation in the and out of the classroom.

This book includes studies that represent the state of the art in science education research and convey a sense of the variation in educational traditions around the world. The papers are organized into six main sections: science teaching processes, conceptual understanding, reasoning strategies, early years science education, and affective and social aspects of science teaching and learning. The volume features 18 papers, selected from the most outstanding papers presented during the 10th European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) Conference, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in September 2013. The theme of the conference was "Science Education Research for Evidence-based Teaching and Coherence in Learning". The studies presented underline aspects of great relevance in contemporary science education: the need to reflect on different approaches to enhance our knowledge of learning processes and the role of context, designed or circumstantial, formal or non-formal, in learning and instruction. These studies are innovative in the issues they explore, the methods they use, or the ways in which emergent knowledge in the field is represented. The book is of interest to science educators and science education researchers with a commitment to evidence informed teaching and learning.

Through expert analysis, this text proves that John Dewey's views on efficiency in education are as relevant as ever. By exploring Deweyan theories of teaching and learning, the volume illustrates how they can aid educators in navigating the theoretical and practical implications of accountability, standardization, and assessment. The Contemporary Relevance of John Dewey's Theories on Teaching and Learning deconstructs issues regarding accountability mechanisms, uniform assessment systems, and standardization processes through a Deweyan lens. Connecting the zeitgeist of the era from which Dewey's ideas emerged and current global political, social, and economic contexts, the book emphasizes the importance of resilient systems in reconciliating the tension between standardized assessments and individual student development. Contributors provide insights from a range of settings across Pre-K, primary, secondary, and higher education and address topics including teacher agency, voice, leadership, and democracy. The volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and academics with an interest in philosophy of education, education policy and the impact of neoliberal agendas, as well as teaching and learning more broadly.

Evolving out of ethnographic fieldwork, this text examines how ideas of social justice are articulated and communicated by pre-service teachers and graduate teaching assistants in the US. By positing the concept of "help" as a central tenet of social justice within teacher education, this volume offers a unique performative analysis of how the concept is communicatively constituted in teacher education and training. Using a social justice framework, the book examines the ways in which new teachers contend with their identities as educators, and demonstrates how these communicative performances influence pre-service and new teachers' perceptions of their role, as well as their responsibility to engage with social justice and critical approaches in the classroom. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators in higher education with an interest in teacher education, critical communication studies, and the sociology of education more broadly. Those specifically interested in teacher training, mentoring, and social justice in the classroom will also benefit from this book.

The World Leaders in Education: Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods explores the practices and policies that the highest-ranking nations in education implement to achieve their success. Topics include the education of disadvantaged students; cultural attitudes toward education; teacher preparation; and teacher salaries. Eight countries are examined: China, Japan, Singapore, Canada, New Zealand, South Korea, Finland, and the United States. The United States is discussed for several reasons, including its large number of strong performers on international tests and its notable history in education. The book looks at both the successes and the failings of these nations, and also mentions the possibilities and limitations of implementing the practices of world-class nations in education in areas where students tend to perform poorly on tests like the PISA. This book may be used for undergraduate and graduate courses such as comparative education.

Chinese language, the first language spoken and used by the largest population in the world, has witnessed a significant global increase. Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) has thus received unprecedented attention, and teaching and learning of CSL have transcended the national boundary. This book reports a case study of training teachers of CSL in Australia with a significant implication to the western English-speaking countries such as Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA. The book is unique in several ways. On a theoretical level, the book analyses knowledge-based and competence-based teacher education, provides an in-depth examination of post-method pedagogy and deconstructs traditional aspects of second language teacher education, making a case for the new concept of "three dimensions". On a practical level, the Australian-based case study employs qualitative methods to gather the feedback from teacher educators, teacher trainees and students who are undergoing CSL training, and further reports on studies on CSL teaching practicum in local schools and abroad. Training Teachers of Chinese in Australia is a book for established scholars, researchers, educators, and research higher degree students who are interested in teacher education, second and foreign language education and Chinese as a second language (CSL).

Training Teachers in Emotional Intelligence provides pre- and in-service teachers with foundational knowledge and skills regarding their own and their students' emotions. Teachers are increasingly charged with providing social-emotional learning, responding to emotional situations in the classroom, and managing their own stress, all of which have real consequences for their retention and student achievement. Focused on the primary/elementary level, this book is an accessible review of children's emotional development, the role of emotions in learning, teaching, and teachers' professional identity. The book provides strategies for teachers to foster their emotional awareness, use emotions to promote learning and relationships, foster emotional competencies in students, and stay emotionally healthy.

This book details the development and impacts of anti-sexism professional development (PD) workshops for preservice teachers. Designed to help teacher candidates recognize gender inequity and think more deeply about their role as anti-sexist educators, Dismantling Educational Sexism through Teacher Education explores how workshops can respond directly to issues manifesting in US schooling such as misrepresentation, androcentric pedagogy, and sex(ual/ist) harassment using an intersectional approach. By documenting participants' learning, the text offers valuable insight into how teacher candidates view their role in combatting sexism and illustrates how an anti-sexism curriculum can positively impact on educators' beliefs, discourses, and teaching practices. This volume will be a valuable resource for researchers and scholars involved in teacher education and issues of gender equity more broadly, as well as teacher educators seeking a theoretical framework for anti-sexism trainings.

This book offers insights into the lived experiences (e.g., teaching, research, and practicum supervision) of TESOL teacher educators in diverse institutional and socio-cultural contexts. Informed by a situated, ecological perspective, it draws on a variety of research approaches (e.g., qualitative, action research, and self-study), and sheds light on how language teacher educators engage in daily practice and social interactions. This edited collection examines how TESOL educators cope with potential contextual obstacles (e.g., the theory-practice divide), and how they seek their continuing professional development in complex, shifting higher education settings. The book offers critical and thoughtful reflections of current practice and policies in language education and higher education, and provides practical implications on the preparation and development of frontline language teachers.

- Despite the greatly increased interest in drama integration in the foreign-language classroom over the past two decades in Great Britain and the USA, there is no text on the English-speaking market that offers such a comprehensive resource for teachers of German - this book is thus aimed both at language instructors who have no or little experience in play direction or drama pedagogy, as well as those who have experience but still appreciate fresh ideas and approaches, particularly considering the exciting current trends in contemporary theatre -

- Despite the greatly increased interest in drama integration in the foreign-language classroom over the past two decades in Great Britain and the USA, there is no text on the English-speaking market that offers such a comprehensive resource for teachers of German - this book is thus aimed both at language instructors who have no or little experience in play direction or drama pedagogy, as well as those who have experience but still appreciate fresh ideas and approaches, particularly considering the exciting current trends in contemporary theatre -

What if, rather than just surviving another school day, educators were inspired and thriving? What if administrators and teachers knew how to confidently lead their schools toward a Project Based Learning environment? What if leaders in education had the skills, structures, and resources to equip every teacher in their building to create a PBL classroom? The process and structures for Project Based Learning have been tested, researched and ready for education professionals to implement! Ryan Steuer, host of the PBL Simplified Podcast and founder of Magnify Learning, has combined the structures of Project Based Learning with Win Stories, Fail Stories, and Practical Steps that give every educator a place to start. Within PBL Simplified, teachers will find stories and resources they can use right away in their classroom to improve learner outcomes-no matter if they are new to PBL or a veteran PBL facilitator. By applying Ryan's leadership insights, instructional coaches and principals will be able to avoid common pitfalls of PBL implementation and create a Project Based Learning plan with buy-in from teachers, parents and community partners. Don't start implementing PBL without first reading PBL Simplified!

This edited book compiles pedagogical practices and studies of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) from two sites: Spain, where CLIL has been widely implemented for more than a decade, and Japan, where the CLIL approach is still in its relative infancy, and quickly gaining momentum. Focusing on three aspects of the CLIL implementations: policy, practice and pedagogy, the authors describe how CLIL has evolved in distinctive socio-political, historical and cultural contexts. The chapters range across primary, secondary and tertiary education, and examine English language teaching and learning at both the macro level - through language education policy - and the micro level - with a focus on classroom interaction and pedagogy. This book fills a gap in the English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) literature, and will be of particular interest to language teachers, teacher trainers, and students and scholars of applied linguistics more broadly.

* Shares the successes and the problems that were solved by a diverse group of UK and international educators during the global pandemic. * Will help and inspire any teacher develop skills to support blended learning in whatever teaching situation they find themselves. * Introduces new ways of working and pedagogical approaches appropriate for developing global skills. * Encourages teachers to build on new skills developed during and post COVID-19 including distance and blended learning, use of technology and new ways of relating to students.