Education: Find a Book

The new teacher's handbook for understanding the roles, responsibilities, and relationships of teaching! Offers basic classroom layout suggestions for an optimal learning environment and frameworks any novice teacher can use to establish procedures that promote positive individual and group behavior. Provides clear guidelines for designing curriculum and instruction and methods for effective assessment. Additional features include: * Samples of oral and written communication for parents and colleagues * Ways to create classroom newsletters * Techniques for using Web sites for interactive learning

Career explorer with concise information on the necessary skills, training, certification/licensure, compensation, and employment outlook for a wide range of education settings. Careers outside of traditional settings include work in adult education, independent education, business or government settings, community-based educational services, and part-time opportunities. The authors provide a guide to self-assessment that helps readers to learn about those careers that best match their interests and temperament.

Drawing on cognitive psychology and other fields, Make It Stick offers techniques for becoming more productive learners, and cautions against study habits and practice routines that turn out to be counterproductive.

Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it's viewed as a process rather than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer effective learning environments for students.

Employ cognitive theory in the classroom every day. James Lang presents a strategy for improving student learning with modest but powerful changes that make a big difference--many of which can be put into practice in a single class period. Each chapter introduces a basic concept in cognitive theory, explains when and how it should be employed, and provides firm examples of how the intervention has been or could be used in a variety of disciplines. Small teaching techniques include brief classroom or online learning activities, one-time interventions, and small modifications in course design or communication with students.

Educators using the MI theory have achieved remarkable success in helping all students, including those who learn in nontraditional ways, to navigate school (and life outside it) with confidence and success. This expanded fourth edition provides educators at all levels with everything they need to apply MI theory to curriculum development, lesson planning, assessment, special education, cognitive skills, career development, educational policy, and more. In addition to the many strategies, templates, and examples, this edition is updated to examine how emerging neurodiversity research, trends toward greater instructional personalization, and rapidly evolving virtual learning tools have affected the use of MI theory to enhance student achievement. It also includes brand-new lesson plans aligned to nationwide standards and a revised list of resources for further study.

Increase your sociocultural awareness and knowledge in order to consider how students' experiences are shaped in and through physical education classes. This book may be especially useful to teacher candidates and as a professional development tool. Using a case study approach, this book addresses social and cultural issues that can and do arise in physical education.