NEW ARRIVALS

1 Mar to 15 Mar

Bellanca, James
Designing professional development for change: a guide for improving classroom instruction
370.7155 BEL

This book offers many practical methods for designing staff development experiences that facilitates high levels of learning transfer into the classroom. School administrators will find guidelines for professional development that cultivates meaningful connections and encourages academic improvement and lifelong learning for students. Topics in this read include methodologies that helps to ensure sustainable results, mediated learning and skillful coaching and much more.

Gray, Donald, Colucci-Gray, Laura and Camino, Elena (eds.)
Science, society and sustainability: education and empowerment for an uncertain world
303.483 SCI

The key factors discussed in this book concerns the theoretical foundation of sustainability science and the relationships between science and society to provide a coherent framework for accounting the complexities of its own nature. The other idea in this book talks about sustainability education that is essentially a series of examples of applications of the ideas of sustainability science within educational contexts.

Bignold, Wendy and Gayton, Liz (2009)
Global issues and comparative education
370.9 GLO

This book studies the impact and nature of comparative education and differentiates primary practices and makes curriculum comparisons. It takes an age-phase approach that analyses selected educational systems from around the world and how globalisation has played a key role in its development. It provides strategies and guidance that equips readers with the necessary skills to for educational study and research.

Canestrari, Alan S. and Marlowe, Bruce A. (2010)
Educational foundations: an anthology of critical readings
370.115 EDU

Educational Foundations examines questions that is aimed at students who are about to enter teaching as a profession. The essays I this read raise many probing questions such as identifying today's students, what makes a good teacher, why teach and much more. It takes a hard look at traditional educational practices which serve as a model of reflection upon newer vignettes. It also performs as a platform from which students can discuss and debate their opinions on the subject and develop their own critical questions and voices.

Graves, Michael F. (2009)
Teaching individual words
372.6 GRA

How important is vocabulary? The author elaborates further by implementing a vocabulary instruction program that allows educators to use a method that is represented by an entire new concept. The four key components that makes up this method are; providing frequent and extensive language experiences, selecting individual words to teach, teaching word-learning strategies and fostering word consciousness.

Sharp, John (2009)
Success with your education research project
370.72 SHA

This series addresses key study skills in the context of education courses by helping students to identify their weaknesses, increase their confidence and realise their full academic potential. It discusses concepts such as information skills, research methods, critical thinking and assignment writing. Also covered in this edition are topics such as using the net effectively and plagiarism and many other subjects that are designed to provide guidance for research students.

Cooper, Hillary and Chapman, Arthur (2009)
Constructing history 11-19
907.1241 CON

This book describes and exemplifies strategies for teaching history lesson across pupils aged 11-19. It describes active learning approaches embedded in pupil-led enquiries through case studies which involves student in planning and carrying out historical questioning, how to present their findings and was to develop that historical thinking. The examples shown in this book can be used as a model for teachers to apply and modify according to the classroom needs.

Glasgow, Neal A. and Hicks Cathy D. (2009)
What successful teachers do: research-based classroom strategies for new and veteran teachers
371.102 GLA

This book has been written for novices and veterans teachers alike to provide practical applications that promote strong instruction and classroom management. Bridging the gap between need for teachers yet expecting excellence in teaching is the challenge for all teachers or any other individuals within the educational system. The strategies presented are designed as resources to assist educators in their profession.

Kiewra, Kenneth A. (2009)
Teaching how to learn: the teacher's guide to student success
371.102 KIE

This innovative guidebook offers methods to strengthen instruction and help K-12 students to acquire learning strategies using the SOAR: Selecting key lesson ideas, Organising information using comparative charts and other representations, Associating ideas to create meaningful and memorable connections, and Regulating and reinforcing learning through practice. It draws upon the latest research in teaching methods and explore themes such as SOAR, fostering better student behavior and motivation, and embedding student learning techniques within content instruction.

November, Alan (2008)
Web literacy for educators
371.3344678 NOV

The World Wide Web is usually the first place where many students will go to find information. However, this poses many dangers and challenges as both student and teachers must become web literate. In this book, readers will learn strategies on how to find, sort and evaluate information on the web. It also illustrates ways that educators can utilise the Internet to strengthen student's critical thinking skills. The resources of this book include, formative assessment, unfiltered research, plagiarism and explanations of commonly used terminology.

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