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"Teaching Hemingway in his time
Teaching Hemingway and Modernism presents concrete, intertextual models for using Hemingway's work effectively in various classroom settings, so students can understand the pertinent works, definitions, and types of avant-gardism that inflected his art. The fifteen teacher-scholars whose essays are included in the volume offer approaches that combine a focused individual treatment of Hemingway's writing with clear...
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The theories and techniques used by teachers to allow pupil learning is included in the teaching methods. These approaches are calculated in portion by the content to be studied and besides by the learner's temperament. To be suitable and profitable for a specific teaching method, it must be related to the learner's characteristics and the species of learning it is assumed to bring about. There are guidelines for developing and choosing teaching methods...
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What do you do when none of your English students will talk? How do you convince shy students to say more than 2 words? Why on earth did you decide to become an ESL teacher?
I've asked myself those questions before, many times in fact during the 5 years I was an ESL teacher in China. It sucked.
If the students weren't talking they were usually misbehaving. The students that were talking I was getting sick of hearing from. And the shy students that...
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Living and teaching abroad! Oh, it sounds so wonderful, and it can be, but it can also be quite the challenge. That's why you found this book, and you're looking at it for one of three reasons:
You're thinking of teaching abroad;
You're already overseas teaching ESL or TEFL;
You're back home wondering what to do now.
Making the move to being an ESL teacher is great - you're excited about new people, places and experiences.
What do you need to know...
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Revamp the traditional pillars of pedagogy for the digital world. Using real-world examples and relevant stories, the author shares how educators can empower learners to design their instruction, curate their curriculum, and build feedback loops to assess their development. Acquire a deep understanding of the student's role in the digital classroom, and recognize the importance of making mistakes to move forward.
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#1 The media storm that erupted in 1956 upon the publication of a book titled “Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals, Handbook I: Cognitive Domain”, was largely the result of a misused pyramid visual image. Today's college instructors often believe that the learning of facts and concepts comes beneath them, while higher cognitive...
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It may only be play money, but the games in this book can help students better understand how important financial literacy is in their real lives. Play-based lesson plans in the book cover topics including spending and saving, risk assessment, and return on investment using fast-paced board and card games. A larger capstone game pulls together all of the concepts in a market-driven game that places students in the role of stockholders investing in...
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Welcome to Unlocking the Secrets of Masterful Teaching: A Practical Guide for Becoming a Better Teacher. This book is designed to help you, the aspiring teacher, become an expert in the art of teaching. Teaching is an incredibly rewarding profession, but it can also be daunting and difficult. It is my goal to provide you with the necessary tools to help you unlock the secrets of masterful teaching and become an expert in the field.
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The book that tells everything you need to know for a successful and rewarding part-time career:
What a sub does
How to qualify (it's easier than you think)
What you'll earn
How to ensure you'll work as much as you want, and where and when you want
The four keys to good subbing
Plus: A sub's bag of tricks-a wealth of brainteasers, puzzles, games, instant arts and crafts, creative play, indoor sports for rainy days, and ways to use your own special...
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Thinking About Going into Teaching ESL/EFL/ESOL? (Language Learning and Teaching: Volume 1) Approx. 55 pages. This short book is for you if you are considering going into the field of teaching English as a second/foreign language, whether English is your first (native) language or not. I have written it with those who are contemplating pursuing English teaching (ESL, EFL or ESOL) as a career option particularly in mind, but it would also be of interest...
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This book contains four essays written over twenty-eight years ago while I was teaching writing and literature in the secondary school classroom. The four essays I have included here, published in various English journals over the years, represent what I once believed were original and effective approaches to teaching writing and literature.I do not wish to make apologies for the unpolished prose style of the essays or for arguments I once would have...
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In this book, two award-winning young educators from opposite sides of the globe will guide teachers entering the profession on how to think about their ambitions; dare to take risks; and innovate in their daily practice of 21st century teaching. The authors will use the metaphor of yoga, which is all about process and practice, to illustrate their points. With this motif in mind, the book will be organized into three sections, each tied to an aspect...
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It can be difficult to recognize that in spite of the precision and power of mathematics, both the verbal and symbolic language it uses have the same qualities of ambiguity as every other human language. In The Role of Language in Teaching Children Math, Dr. Kastner reveals strategies to overcome the fact that traditional and current mathematics curricula, beginning in the early grades, fail to provide students with the conceptual understanding required...
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"It is, I think, the collective hope of us involved with this volume that-through its authors' collective experience, intellectual rigor, practical advice, conversational tone, sample syllabi, and enthusiastic encouragement-it inspires future generations of teachers to return to this iconically modernist novel so that students once again have the opportunity to understand its artistry for themselves."-from the IntroductionThis first volume in the...
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We all know the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, but too often we forget that the colonies were almost a year into the Revolutionary War by the time of the signing. Can you replicate historical success? Or will your colonies fall back under British rule? Building upon 1775: Rebellion, an award winning board game, this book presents a week-long unit with detailed lesson plans, primary source documents, and additional instructional resources...
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Give students concrete opportunities to practice STEAM skills! This teacher resource includes easy-to-use classroom strategies and activities for science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics. This teacher book provides 50 strategies to support STEAM instruction and build 21st-century skills such as collaboration, handling failure, problem-solving, communication, and creativity. With ten strategies per essential STEAM skill, this book provides...
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#1 The American education system has created an epidemic of dependent learners who are unprepared to do the higher order thinking and creative problem solving required by the new Common Core State Standards.
#2 The school-to-prison pipeline is a set of seemingly unconnected school policies and teacher instructional decisions that over time result in students of color...
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Google Apps give teachers the opportunity to interact with students in a more meaningful way than ever before, while G Suite empowers students to be creative, critical thinkers who collaborate as they explore and learn. In Teaching Math with Google Apps, educators Alice Keeler and Diana Herrington demonstrate fifty different ways to bring math classes into the twenty-first century with easy-to-use technology.
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