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Overcome Any Obstacle to Creativity (Hardcover): Tony McCaffrey Overcome Any Obstacle to Creativity (Hardcover)
Tony McCaffrey
R1,940 Discovery Miles 19 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The overall purpose of the book is to present (1) the best science on creativity and innovation in the most practical way possible and (2) a new way of teaching called the Nonsense Method, which relies on humans' incredible ability to create sense out of apparent nonsense and have fun while doing it. The central theory of the book, the Obscure Features Hypothesis for Innovation (OFH), is the first approach to innovation that yields effective counter techniques to all known cognitive obstacles to innovation. The OFH states that any creative solution is built upon at least one commonly overlooked (i.e., obscure) or new feature of the problem. Each chapter ends with puzzles that relate to the cognitive obstacle and counter technique discussed in the chapter. Two hints and a solution for each puzzle are given at the book's end. The Nonsense Method of Teaching focuses upon universal puzzles that can be adapted to any subject. These universal puzzles situate vocabulary words and ideas from any subject matter in situations that need to be connected and thus made sense of.

Mindful Teaching and Learning - Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being (Paperback): Karen Ragoonaden Mindful Teaching and Learning - Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being (Paperback)
Karen Ragoonaden; Contributions by Tom Bassarear, Kathryn Byrnes, Sabre Cherkowski, Kelly Hanson, …
R1,195 Discovery Miles 11 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mindful Teaching and Learning: Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being features a community of scholar-practitioners from across disciplines, methodologies, and ideological perspectives exploring and examining contexts that support mindful teaching, mindful learning, and a pedagogy of well-being. Collectively, these chapters document and analyze the opportunities and challenges within pedagogical sites and discuss how the disposition of mindfulness can be nurtured and sustained in educational practice and praxis. Bolstered by the positive evidence-based standards emanating from clinical settings, mindfulness based training has spread into a variety of other fields like psychology, healthcare, and more recently, education. Within pedagogical environments, an emergent secular conception of mindfulness, under the auspices of educational psychologists like Langer (1987; 1997), Goleman, (2008), Lantieri (2008), Roeser, Skinner, Beers, and Jennings, (2012), and Schonert-Reichl and Lawlor (2010), is making headway. Consequently, Mindfulness Training (MT) resources have been applied to educational contexts in order to maximize the academic, emotional, physical, and psychological benefits provided by this mind-body approach to well-being. Acknowledging the increasing evidence base for the efficacy of mindfulness interventions as well as the elevated stress levels reported by many educators and their students, this book discusses how mindful practices, praxis, and research can inform and support pedagogy, curriculum, and leadership initiatives in higher education in the twenty-first century. Alongside the multitude of recent studies in the area of Mindfulness, contributors discuss their own experiences using Self-study, Contemplative pedagogy, Living Educational Theory, and Curriculum Inquiry. The content of this book examines ways in which to develop habits of mind and courses of action, as well as a curriculum of study that can support educators as they cultivate competencies for thriving and coping with the modern demands of being a teacher.

Visual Approaches to Instructional Design, Development, and Deployment (Hardcover): Shalin Hai-Jew Visual Approaches to Instructional Design, Development, and Deployment (Hardcover)
Shalin Hai-Jew
R5,532 Discovery Miles 55 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Educational practices have seen a wide array of technological advancements in recent years. As learning methods making the transition to online and virtual settings, instructors are required to develop teaching plans that conform to the new era of e-learning. Designing, developing, and deploying these new instructional plans remain a challenge for educators due to a lack of research and knowledge in graphic design techniques. Visual Approaches to Instructional Design, Development, and Deployment is a collection of innovative research on visual-forward approaches to instructional design and applications of visual planning methods in creating effective learning environments. This book focuses on the advancement of online learning techniques using visual design technologies. While highlighting topics including image curation, visual planning, and textual thinking, this book is ideal for instructional designers, researchers, practitioners, instructors, developers, administrators, graphic artists, academicians, and students seeking current research on advancements in instructional design through the use of visual thinking strategies.

Hands Up (Hardcover): Mr Redd Hands Up (Hardcover)
Mr Redd
R702 Discovery Miles 7 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Generating Transworld Pedagogy - Reimagining La Clase Magica (Hardcover): Belinda Bustos Flores, Olga A. Vasquez, Ellen Riojas... Generating Transworld Pedagogy - Reimagining La Clase Magica (Hardcover)
Belinda Bustos Flores, Olga A. Vasquez, Ellen Riojas Clark; Contributions by Kris D. Gutierrez, Mayra Martinez Avidad, …
R3,902 R2,746 Discovery Miles 27 460 Save R1,156 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Generating Transworld Pedagogy: Reimagining La Clase Magica lays the foundation for addressing one of the greatest challenges in the 21st century: meeting the educational needs of a diverse society living in a complex, technology-driven world. It extends bilingual and bicultural transformative critical pedagogy by appropriating the use of mobile devices and digital tools within an after-school setting. Four theoretical concepts anchor this collection: the dialectic method, concepts of culture, a bilingual/bicultural critical pedagogy, and the notion of the sacred sciences. Generating Transworld Pedagogy showcases the intersection of learners' linguistic, cultural, and historical knowledge as critical tools for learning and for navigating the broader society. The volume serves as an ideal framework for preparing teacher educators and teacher candidates for a world in motion. It provides a deeper understanding of the conditions needed to create the ideal learning and teaching opportunities for bilingual learners. Special highlights include a comprehensive resource for integrating linguistic and cultural diversity within a technological and global perspective for 21st century teachers and learners; a resource for launching the model in new sociocultural contexts; an exemplar of the innovative uses of mobile technology and digital literacies within the learning setting; and a model for engaging in socially-designed community-based research that can extend to an international scale.

The Challenge of Greatness - The Legacy of Great Teachers (Paperback): Michael Gose The Challenge of Greatness - The Legacy of Great Teachers (Paperback)
Michael Gose
R1,173 Discovery Miles 11 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Challenge of Greatness: The Legacy of Great Teachers reveals the characteristics and teaching strategies of Great Teachers. Simultaneously the book describes a Pantheon of thirty-two great teachers, and challenges the reader to continue their legacy by becoming one. Recognizing the uniqueness of a great teacher, the book raises the kind of issues they face, and a range of possibilities from which they find solutions.

Inquiry-Based Learning - Designing Instruction to Promote Higher Level Thinking (Hardcover, Third Edition): Teresa Coffman Inquiry-Based Learning - Designing Instruction to Promote Higher Level Thinking (Hardcover, Third Edition)
Teresa Coffman
R2,078 R1,476 Discovery Miles 14 760 Save R602 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Inquiry-Based Learning: Designing Instruction to Promote Higher Level Thinking focuses on learning and pedagogy around inquiry using technology as a cognitive tool. Specific inferences and applications of learning through an inquiry approach are explored and illustrations are drawn from educational settings. This third edition text explores realistic approaches and encourages reflective practice through the creation of instruction around a variety of curricular topics, to include digital citizenship, information literacy, social media, telecollaborative activities, problem-based learning, blended learning, and authentic assessments. Emphasis is placed on developing 21st century skills within a thinking curriculum. Readers consider a scenario that continues throughout each chapter in the design and development of inquiry lessons. Chapter reflections and skill building exercises assist readers in developing competencies around the inquiry process as well as the pedagogy required in using this approach with authentic tools.

A Guide to Better Teaching - Skills, Advice, and Evaluation for College and University Professors (Hardcover, New): Leila... A Guide to Better Teaching - Skills, Advice, and Evaluation for College and University Professors (Hardcover, New)
Leila Jahangiri, Tom Mucciolo
R2,007 Discovery Miles 20 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Guide to Better Teaching is a self-help book that provides anyone teaching a college course with a thorough understanding of what it takes to be an effective teacher. Derived from the authors' extensive research, several interactive assessment tools are included that measure levels of effectiveness according to learner preferences. Each chapter is filled with detailed explanations, relevant stories, and action-driven tables that help them in understanding and applying skills. This book aims to enhance teaching skills by offering critical perspectives, practical suggestions, and techniques for improvement. Whether a new teacher, an adjunct faculty, or a seasoned professor, this comprehensive information can be used to analyze effectiveness or the effectiveness of others. The suggestions and the assessment tools are applicable to the entire spectrum of organizational leaders and managers, in education, government or industry whose work requires giving presentations or communicating in a public forum. To access the free skills assessment tools, please click here.

Change the World with Service Learning - How to Create, Lead, and Assess Service Learning Projects (Paperback): Katy Farber Change the World with Service Learning - How to Create, Lead, and Assess Service Learning Projects (Paperback)
Katy Farber
R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Change the World with Service Learning is written in a clear and easy-to-use style designed for the teacher integrating Service Learning into the curriculum. The book guides educators from all content areas and grade levels to create meaningful Service Learning projects with their students by providing a no-fluff, step-by-step, teacher-to-teacher description of how to create, plan, teach, and celebrate Service Learning which meets and exceeds local, district, and national curricular expectations. The tools presented in Change the World with Service Learning will lead to projects which can have a lasting and positive impact on both the participating students, as well as those they are designed to serve.

Unlearning Failure - Can Urban Schools Be Transformed in the New Millennium? (Paperback): Dierdre G. Paul Unlearning Failure - Can Urban Schools Be Transformed in the New Millennium? (Paperback)
Dierdre G. Paul
R766 Discovery Miles 7 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book seeks to leave the reader feeling optimistic and forward-thinking about our collective ability to provide a better educational future for all of our children. Rather than simply recite problems, Unlearning Failure seeks to explore credible solutions. If we are to fix the current urban schooling mess that we find ourselves in, we might well need to reignite our collective outside-the-box thinking as well as revisit measures previously labeled controversial.

Paradigm Shifts in 21st Century Teaching and Learning (Hardcover): Senol Orakci Paradigm Shifts in 21st Century Teaching and Learning (Hardcover)
Senol Orakci
R5,901 Discovery Miles 59 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of the most important transformations in the world today is the adaptation to education and teaching methods that must be made to enhance the learning experience for Millennial and Generation Z students. The system in which the student is passive and the teacher is active is no longer the most effective form of education. Additionally, with the increased availability to information, knowledge transfer is no longer done solely by the teacher. Educators need to become moderators in order to promote effective teaching practices. Paradigm Shifts in 21st Century Teaching and Learning is an essential scholarly publication that examines new approaches to learning and their application in the teaching-learning process. Featuring a wide range of topics such as game-based learning, curriculum design, and sustainability, this book is ideal for teachers, curriculum developers, instructional designers, researchers, education professionals, administrators, academicians, educational policymakers, and students.

Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Modern Education Delivery, VOL 1 (Hardcover): D.B.A., Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Modern Education Delivery, VOL 1 (Hardcover)
D.B.A., Mehdi Khosrow-Pour,
R6,596 Discovery Miles 65 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rethinking Teacher Education - A Bold Alternative to Pre-Service Programs (Paperback): Selma Wassermann Rethinking Teacher Education - A Bold Alternative to Pre-Service Programs (Paperback)
Selma Wassermann
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book offers concrete and specific suggestions for improving teacher education programs, including improved strategies for selection into the program; key ingredients for pre-service course work; courses that emphasis skill development in critical areas of teaching practice and more effective evaluation of student teaching that emphasizes professional development.

Fostering Reflective Teaching Practice in Pre-Service Education (Hardcover): Zineb Djoub Fostering Reflective Teaching Practice in Pre-Service Education (Hardcover)
Zineb Djoub
R5,757 Discovery Miles 57 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As with any industry, the education sector often goes through frequent changes. It is every educator's duty to keep up with these shifting requirements and alter their teaching style accordingly. Fostering Reflective Teaching Practice in Pre-Service Education is an essential reference source that provides a detailed analysis of the most efficient and effective ways for teachers to adapt to changes in their industry. Featuring relevant topics such as reflective teaching methodology, lifelong learning programs, pioneer service learning, and technology integration in education, this book is ideal for current educators, future teachers, academicians, students, and researchers that would like insight into the best practices for keeping up with the demanding changes in the education field.

Learning Wheels (Hardcover): David C Mims Learning Wheels (Hardcover)
David C Mims
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Transforming Education in Practice - In Search of a Community of Phronimos (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Wai-yan Ronald Tang Transforming Education in Practice - In Search of a Community of Phronimos (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Wai-yan Ronald Tang
R3,621 Discovery Miles 36 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book inspires educational practitioners with special regard to the way how practice in the frontline service is able to inform leadership and policy decision. It empowers them to identify what features are counted as professional and how they could be turned into sources for developing wise judgment and eliciting creative acts in teaching, lesson planning and course design, collaboration, and knowledge excavation to shape policy decision and planning. In addition, for those who are used to conceive the world and their practice from a positivist tradition may find the insights of this book illuminating particularly when they are looking for a paradigm shift in understanding their practice. Last but not least, educators and teacher educators in particular will find the ideas in this book more promising in escalating the awareness of teachers of the next generation towards what is 'good' (phronesis) in terms of their professional attitude and actual performance (informed by both techne and episteme) in their relevant settings.

Upper Elementary Reading Lessons - Case Studies of Real Teaching (Paperback): Marilyn J. Chambliss, Linda Valli Upper Elementary Reading Lessons - Case Studies of Real Teaching (Paperback)
Marilyn J. Chambliss, Linda Valli
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Engaging students in worthwhile learning requires more than a knowledge of underlying principles of good teaching. It demands considerable practice as well as images of what good teaching in particular situations and for particular purposes might look like. This volume provides these images. These cases were written from authentic, unrehearsed lessons taught by upper-elementary classroom teachers to diverse groups of real students in intact classrooms. Each lesson contains elements of sound instructional practice from which both preservice and in-service teachers can benefit. Cases are not meant to be ideal, but rather to evoke ways of seeing and thinking about good classroom instruction for all learners. Accompanied by analytic commentaries from experts representing a particular perspective, such as special education and ESOL, these unrehearsed cases are written with the understanding that teaching is complex and multi-dimensional. The cases are drawn from a four-year study of 4th and 5th grade mathematics instruction of culturally diverse classrooms with relatively high rates of students from low-income families.

Breaking Away from the Textbook - Creative Ways to Teach World History (Paperback, 2nd Edition): Ron H. Pahl Breaking Away from the Textbook - Creative Ways to Teach World History (Paperback, 2nd Edition)
Ron H. Pahl
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Teaching history should not simply be an endless recitation of irrelevant facts, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book instead focuses on exciting classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with human issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the world today. Simply put, this book makes world history fun. Soon your students will be busy debating, thinking, applying, and learning about information that will stay with them for a lifetime. The key to this wonderful work is that it incorporates various disciplines including art, music, and writing to create a vibrant classroom. Volume I covers prehistory to the Renaissance and Volume II covers the Enlightenment to the 20th century. Includes pictures and drawings, appendices, indexes, maps, and a bibliography. Volume III: More Creative Ways to Teach World History covers ancient times through the 20th century and beyond. Appropriate for all grade levels.

How to Teach without Instructing - 29 Smart Rules for Educators (Paperback): Rolf Arnold How to Teach without Instructing - 29 Smart Rules for Educators (Paperback)
Rolf Arnold
R1,096 Discovery Miles 10 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Teaching" and "learning" are two interrelated terms used to express our thinking about a major aspect of human development. However, didactics developed into an art, the "art" of teaching, while the processes of learning were neglected and not researched. Nowadays, many people perceive "learning" as an undesirable activity. The experience of learning is thought of as something expected of them from the outside and it is often remembered as stressful, a pressure to perform, a fear of failure, and alienation. But there are also some enriching experiences such as the joy of discovery, to ultimately achieve after many attempts something that you could not do previously, or to see a situation in a new light. How to Teach Without Instructing relinks teaching and learning. It examines the teaching practices in institutions of learning and formulates "rules" that assist teachers in their efforts to focus their teaching on the learner. The rules are based on situations that are routinely encountered in the teaching environment.

Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University (Hardcover): Robert Samuels Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University (Hardcover)
Robert Samuels
R1,784 Discovery Miles 17 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This timely intervention into composition studies presents a case for the need to teach all students a shared system of communication and logic based on the modern globalizing ideals of universality, neutrality, and empiricism. Based on a series of close readings of contemporary writing by Stanley Fish, Asao Inoue, Doug Downs and Elizabeth Wardle, Richard Rorty, Slavoj Zizek, and Steven Pinker, this book critiques recent arguments that traditional approaches to teaching writing, grammar, and argumentation foster marginalization, oppression, and the restriction of student agency. Instead, it argues that the best way to educate and empower a diverse global student body is to promote a mode of academic discourse dedicated to the impartial judgment of empirical facts communicated in an open and clear manner. It provides a critical analysis of core topics in composition studies, including the teaching of grammar; notions of objectivity and neutrality; empiricism and pragmatism; identity politics; and postmodernism. Aimed at graduate students and junior instructors in rhetoric and composition, as well as more seasoned scholars and program administrators, this polemical book provides an accessible staging of key debates that all writing instructors must grapple with.

Disciplinary Literacy and Explicit Vocabulary Teaching: A whole school approach to closing the attainment gap (Paperback):... Disciplinary Literacy and Explicit Vocabulary Teaching: A whole school approach to closing the attainment gap (Paperback)
Kathrine Mortimore
R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Firmly rooted in research evidence of what works within the classroom for our most disadvantaged students, Disciplinary Literacy and Explicit Vocabulary Teaching offers teachers and school leaders practical ways in which those students who are behind in their literacy capabilities can make excellent progress. Building on the work of Geoff Barton in his influential book Don't Call it Literacy, Kathrine Mortimore outlines the unique literacy challenges posed by specific subject areas for those with weaker literacy skills, and more importantly how these challenges can be addressed and overcome. A student's GCSE results are vital in giving them the choices they deserve in order to go on to the next stage of their academic careers. This book draws on the success stories of schools and subjects that have made significant improvements in the outcomes of the children they teach, regardless of their starting points. From the inevitable success of Michaela Community school, to the gains made by the English department at Torquay Academy and the rapid reading improvements at Henley Bank, this book draws on both whole school initiatives and subject-specific strategies which have had proven success. This book places a wide and balanced knowledge-rich curriculum at the centre of any school improvement strategy designed to improve literacy, and illustrates the role that all subjects must combine to play in building the vital background knowledge and vocabulary that young people need in order to read independently. This curriculum must then be delivered using those teaching methods that have had the greatest impact on disadvantaged learners, and this book sets out how the methodology of direct and explicit instruction can be adopted within each subject area. Alongside this is a useful summary of staff development and inset which offers practical ways in which teachers' adoption of these effective strategies can be facilitated. There are also useful sections on creating a whole school dictionary of essential vocabulary, creating a culture of reading and writing, and also those key literacy barriers experienced by those students with some of the most common special educational needs.

Teaching Practices and Language Ideologies for Multilingual Classrooms (Hardcover): Ashok Bhusal Teaching Practices and Language Ideologies for Multilingual Classrooms (Hardcover)
Ashok Bhusal
R5,773 Discovery Miles 57 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While standard language ideology (SLI) is harmful in its exclusion of minorities through expression of language and race, translingualism provides a positive scaffolding characterized by the disposition of openness. Translingualism suggests that each utterance creates meaning and is a direct rebellion against SLI. It privileges unprivileged varieties of English over so-called Standard English. In order to combat SLI, scholars have emphasized the need for congenial multicultural spaces where students can use their cultural and linguistic resources as an asset and which supports the idea of students learning from each other through their diversity. Teaching Practices and Language Ideologies for Multilingual Classrooms is an essential scholarly publication that examines the educational necessities for diverse student populations and multilingual students and provides rich teaching resources for guiding the creation of classroom environments that engages multilingual students and supports their writing and problem-solving skill development. Featuring a range of topics such as ethics, code-switching, and language education, this book is ideal for teachers, instructional designers, academicians, sociologists, administrators, language professionals, researchers, and students.

Unlearning Failure - Can Urban Schools Be Transformed in the New Millennium? (Hardcover): Dierdre G. Paul Unlearning Failure - Can Urban Schools Be Transformed in the New Millennium? (Hardcover)
Dierdre G. Paul
R1,392 Discovery Miles 13 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book seeks to leave the reader feeling optimistic and forward-thinking about our collective ability to provide a better educational future for all of our children. Rather than simply recite problems, Unlearning Failure seeks to explore credible solutions. If we are to fix the current urban schooling mess that we find ourselves in, we might well need to reignite our collective outside-the-box thinking as well as revisit measures previously labeled controversial.

Memories from My Classroom (Hardcover): Mr Redd Memories from My Classroom (Hardcover)
Mr Redd
R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Structuring Learning Environments in Teacher Education to Elicit Dispositions as Habits of Mind - Strategies and Approaches... Structuring Learning Environments in Teacher Education to Elicit Dispositions as Habits of Mind - Strategies and Approaches Used and Lessons Learned (Hardcover)
Erskine S. Dottin, Lynne D. Miller, George E. O'Brien
R2,976 R2,103 Discovery Miles 21 030 Save R873 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book focuses on faculty members in a learning community in the College of Education at Florida International University. It discusses their pedagogical efforts to structure learning environments consistent with the philosophical orientation in the college's conceptual framework to call forth dispositions, or key habits of mind that are consistent with reflective intelligence.

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