This comprehensive guide captures important trends in international relations (IR) pedagogy, paying particular attention to innovations in active learning and student engagement for the contemporary International Relations (IR) classroom. This book is organized into three parts: IR course structures and goals; techniques and approaches to the classroom; and assessment and effectiveness. It is up-to-date with teaching practices highlighted by leading journals and conferences sponsored by the International Studies Association (ISA) and the American Political Science Association (APSA). Collectively, the chapters contribute to continuing dialogues on pedagogy in the field and serve as a critical resource for faculty in IR, political science, and social science.

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Dr. Paul Swan is an award-winning author and mathematics educator. He is a well-known author with books published in many different countries including the USA, UK, Canada, Malaysia, and Australia. After a long career which has included working a the primary and secondary school level and 18 years as a University mathematics educator, Dr. Swan started consulting to leadership groups and international companies to help improve the way that mathematics is taught throughout the world. He continues to lecture, write and develop games and materials to help children enjoy learning mathematics.

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Providing an insightful and comprehensive introduction to the world of journal publishing within the fields of political science and international relations, this book offers in-depth guidance to maximize the likelihood of publishing success. Using their extensive experience as journal editors, Marijke Breuning and John Ishiyama also include crucial advice on how to select an appropriate journal, revise manuscripts, and how to increase the impact of published work. Common questions are answered, such as: when is the right time to submit your manuscript; how to select a co-author; and when to contact an editor, as well as the challenging aspect of how to deal with rejections. Other key topics are thoroughly reviewed and explored, including guidance on ethics and integrity in publishing journal articles, emerging practices regarding research transparency, and new frontiers in academic journal publishing such as Open Access. This engaging book will be an invaluable resource for graduate students and scholars looking to improve their understanding of the journal publishing process, as well as providing an essential guide for those undertaking this journey for the first time.

Will your children be ready for the new national times table check? All children in Year 4 will have to sit an on-screen times tables check; this series will help to prepare children by supporting their learning and understanding of times tables. Each workbook provides practice, problem-solving activities, games and quick-fire quizzes to build fluency of times-tables facts. A free online practice test will also help children to prepare for this important national check. Each book uses concrete resources, problem solving and reasoning to build a mastery of multiplication and division, not just rote learning. Perfect for use at home or in the classroom. An accompanying Teacher's Guide is also available providing lessons and activities to build confidence and fluency in times tables.

This instructional guide for literature is the ideal tool to help students analyze and understand this classic story. The engaging and rigorous lessons and activities utilize research-based literacy skills that will help students become efficient readers. Students will dive eagerly into the story of Andrew's quest to get just one freckle! They will practice guided close reading, study text-based vocabulary, analyze characters and story elements, and much more while making cross-curricular connections to mathematics, science, social studies, and other areas. Strengthen your students' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!

Games, Simulations and Playful Learning in Business Education takes a fresh, insightful look at original and innovative ways of incorporating games, simulations and play to enhance the quality of higher education learning and assessment across business and law disciplines. Chapters cover wide-ranging business areas such as marketing, accounting and strategy and include practical advice, tips and thoughts on how to strengthen existing learning techniques to include a fun element. Contributors examine the core achievements that can be gained from playing games and simulations and how these can be adapted to learning within the business environment using a variety of techniques such as remote online learning, creating a digital game application and taking part in simulations that teach life skills for employability. The book also highlights the value and importance of skill learning through games alongside traditional methods to provide a more pleasurable learning experience. Examining all aspects of teaching and education, this book will be an invaluable resource for academics in business and law schools based in the UK and internationally.

This peer-reviewed edited volume provides strategies and practices for teaching nonprofit management theories and concepts in the context of the undergraduate, graduate, and online classroom environments. Each chapter discusses and summarizes pertinent theories and concepts with concrete examples of nonprofit management education courses. Concept discussions then follow up with exercises or simulations and various resources for instructors to apply in either physical or virtual classrooms. The majority of the chapters are connected to one or more core nonprofit curriculum areas as identified by the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council (NACC) curriculum guidelines. Instructors, faculty, and program directors of nonprofit management and philanthropy courses at undergraduate and graduate levels can use Teaching Nonprofit Management as a guide for teaching and for creating course syllabi. The book can also serve as a supplemental textbook, as it covers the core curricular areas identified by the NACC. Contributors include: S. Arsneault, J. Beneson, K.C. Bezboruah, T.K. Bryan, H.L. Carpenter, E.A. Castillo, L.P. Corbett, E.J. Dale, D.J. Hamann, J.A. Jones, L.-Y. Liu, D.P. Mason, L. McDougle, S.C. Mendel, L. Miltenberger, H.A. O'Connor, A. Schatteman, G.G. Shaker, C.C. Strawser, C.E. Suarez, S.K. Vaughan, P.C. Weber, M. Wooddell, J.A. Young

Education has undergone a series of changes based on the new technologies, strategies, and best practices that have been developed in recent years. Specifically, the way various subjects are taught has developed considerably as education turns toward a more digital approach. Geography education is no different and has had to adjust to these innovative practices in order to provide students with the best possible curricula. Didactic Strategies and Resources for Innovative Geography Teaching presents educational strategies and resources to promote cross-disciplinary approaches to teaching geographic knowledge and skills. The book also discusses how geography education boosts essential cognitive and attitudinal processes in personal development, fosters critical thinking, and builds a society committed to its environment. Covering key topics such as mobile learning, natural learning environments, and geographic information systems, this reference work is ideal for teachers, geographers, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

This collection of irresistible games targets the math skills students in grades 2-3 need to know, including addition, subtraction, time, money, and place value. The 30 easy-to-prep activities use common manipulatives and consist of one-page reproducible game boards and simple directions students can follow independently. A great way to keep student pairs engaged and learning during seatwork and center time--and perfect to send home so students can get in even more practice. For use with Grades 2-3.

This comprehensive guide provides readers with strategies for teaching Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in all its forms, whether through formal university programmes or in the form of short courses offered to professionals and practitioners. Featuring contributions from 39 university teachers and short course trainers, the centerpiece of the book is the suite of 37 recipes for teaching different aspects of EIA. This internationally relevant resource collectively embodies and applies the best practice principles for teaching EIA, developed through a two-year research project with input from a diverse group of international experts. It provides practical and innovative learning activities with complete instructions for successful delivery, and thus represents a truly comprehensive and up-to-date contribution to the field. This latest contribution to our Elgar Guides to Teaching series serves as both a basis for reflection upon curricula and teaching practices, and as a source of inspiration for learning activities that can be adopted and adapted for different contexts by EIA teachers and trainers. It will be a valuable resource to help both new and seasoned EIA educators expand their toolbox in order to teach EIA more effectively.

As entrepreneurship education grows across disciplines and permeates through various areas of university programs, this timely book offers an interdisciplinary, comparative and global perspective on best practices and new insights for the field. Through the theoretical lens of collaborative partnerships, it examines innovative practices of entrepreneurship education and advances understanding of the discipline. Exploring and showcasing how global collaboration can foster entrepreneurship education, international contributors share their experiences as educators, scholars and thought-leaders involved in the Babson Collaborative. Chapters illustrate the challenges faced by educators and creative methods for tackling them, offering useful insights from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Highlighting the significance of the field to higher education environments, this book encourages active participation in entrepreneurial practice and collaboration between stakeholders and disciplines to ensure high-quality education in a variety of settings. This insightful book is a rousing and inspiring view of entrepreneurship education for scholars and academic entrepreneurs who are working to build robust education ecosystems in the field.

Looking for ways to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature? Students will be whisked away to enchanting worlds as they analyze this popular children's book series. Magic Tree House Series: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides engaging activities that incorporate the following research-based literacy skills: close reading tasks; text-based vocabulary practice; cross-curricular activities; text-dependent questions; reader response writing prompts; leveled comprehension questions; story elements comprehension tasks; diverse and relevant assessments. Strengthen your students' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!

Can you learn to be an entrepreneur in a week? The book focuses on short entrepreneurship education initiatives and includes eleven courses from European research-based universities. The book provides insights on best practice and lessons learned from experience for potential and current organizers of such initiatives. Entrepreneurship initiatives are a common response to top-down decisions to include entrepreneurship in all disciplines and study programs. There is often also a regional or societal goal for these activities. Different types of programme are analysed, from those aiming to instil an entrepreneurial mindset, those preparing the individual for an entrepreneurial career to those based on collaborations between universities. The authors make comparisons of the audiences, goals, organization and pedagogical approaches in each case to answer whether entrepreneurship can be taught in one week. By reading this book university managers, course designers and those delivering entrepreneurship initiatives will be able to make a more informed decision regarding if and how they should be organized. Contributors include: L. Aaboen, V.L. Ausrod, O. Belousova, A. Blesa, C. Cantu, S. Costa, S. Delanoe-Gueguen, A. Groen, J. Guldager, J. Heinonen, U. Hytti, P.P. Iglesias-Sanchez, A. Jacobsson, A. La Rocca, H. Landstroem, E.M. Laviolette, C.J. Maldonado, L. Martinez, G.-B. Neergard, A. Ouendag, M. Ripolles, C.A.F. Rosenstand, E. Simmons, R. Sorheim, P. Stenholm, C. Tollestrup

The definitive guide to creating and using experiential exercises in the classroom. For anyone interested in continuously improving their teaching practice, this book provides an overview of the theory and empirical evidence for active learning and the use of experiential exercises. Using a prescriptive model and checklist for creating, adapting or adopting experiential exercises in the classroom, the authors demonstrate evidence-based best practices for each step in the development and use of experiential exercises, including tips, worksheets and checklists to facilitate use of these practices. In addition, the book provides rich examples which illustrate how educators have used this model and practices in their own classrooms, and resources to help find experiential exercises, learn more about effectively using them, and connect with organizations, journals, and people dedicated to the use of experiential exercises in the classroom. Higher education educators seeking to improve their teaching practice, to increase effectiveness and to learn how to develop and use experiential exercises as well as doctoral students learning how to develop and use experiential exercises will find direction and inspiration in Experiential Exercises in the Classroom.

Explore the what, why, and how of close reading to give students in grades K 2 the tools they need to be successful. In this must-have guide, teachers will learn the key elements of a close reading lesson as well as strategies for analyzing and selecting a text and how to support students based on their progress and performance. The included lesson template will allow teachers to not only use the provided lessons and texts but also create their own. Correlated to standards, this book includes grade-specific sample close reading lessons and digital copies of teacher and student resources.

Will your children be ready for the new national times table check? All children in Year 4 will have to sit an on-screen times tables check; this series will help to prepare children by supporting their learning and understanding of times tables. Each workbook provides practice, problem-solving activities, games and quick-fire quizzes to build fluency of times-tables facts. A free online practice test will also help children to prepare for this important national check. Each book uses concrete resources, problem solving and reasoning to build a mastery of multiplication and division, not just rote learning. Perfect for use at home or in the classroom. An accompanying Teacher's Guide is also available providing lessons and activities to build confidence and fluency in times tables.

This ready-to-use resource contains 30 exciting story starters that model good writing and help any student get past writer's block The prompts provide scaffolding through rich characters, imaginative settings, and an edge-of-your-seat cliffhanger. "And then . . ." students put their natural storytelling skills to work, dreaming up their own unique endings. Teachers are sure to enjoy reading about what's under the door in the floor, what the voices in the root beer are saying, what arrived via special delivery, and other stories with endless possibilities. For use with Grades 3-6.

Spark scientific curiosity from a young age with this six-level course through an enquiry-based approach and active learning. Collins International Primary Science fully meets the requirements of the Cambridge Primary Science Curriculum Framework from 2020 and has been carefully developed for a range of international contexts. The course is organised into four main strands: Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Earth and Space and the skills detailed under the 'Thinking and Working Scientifically' strand are introduced and taught in the context of those areas. For each Student's Book at Stages 1 to 6, we offer: A full colour and highly illustrated Student's Book Photo-rich spreads show that science is 'real' and puts it into context Earth and Space content covers the new curriculum framework Thinking and Working Scientifically deepens and enhances the delivery of Science skills Actively learn through practical activities that don't require specialist equipment or labs Scaffolding allows students of varying abilities to work with common content and meet learning objectives Supports Cambridge Global Perspectives (TM) with activities that develop and practise key skills Provides learner support as part of a set of resources for the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework (0097) from 2020 This series is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the new curriculum framework 0097 from 2020.