Learn to design interest-provoking writing and critical thinking activities and incorporate them into your courses in a way that encourages inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate, with Engaging Ideas, a practical nuts-and-bolts guide for teachers from any discipline. Integrating critical thinking with writing-across-the-curriculum approaches, the book shows how teachers from any discipline can incorporate these activities into their courses. This edition features new material dealing with genre and discourse community theory, quantitative/scientific literacy, blended and online learning, and other current issues.
Refreshed by current research, new practical examples, andtheoretically sound pedagogical principles, this is a book forteachers of all subjects, regardless of level or institution.Faculty who dip into these engaging ideas will find dozens ...
Written by subject specialists with years of classroom experience teaching STEM, each chapter contains: A rationale showing links to the National Curriculum Key subject knowledge Brief session plans Ideas for supporting higher and lower ...
For Feliz, whose love and patience made this possible For Mom, Dad and Kristin for always believing in me Ten Cheap Lessons: Easy, Engaging Ideas for Every Secondary Classroom by Tom DeRosa First edition 2008.
Engaging the Online Learner This updated edition includes an innovative framework the Phases of Engagement that helps learners become more involved as knowledge generators and cofacilitators of a course.
Ms. Walton speaks to the mother of Meira, who is from Bosnia. Meira has been daydreaming and not completing her work at school. Through an interpreter, Ms. Walton asks the mother to talk to Meira about the problem.
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The Creative Training Idea Book is packed with instructions for using activities, games, puzzles, toys, and props to increase energy and active participation in the classroom, and reveals how to think creatively about training in any ...
Help students gain writing confidence with this comprehensive collection of easy, super-engaging lessons that invite them to describe a dream, write a mystery story, create a movie review, compose a business letter, and so many more!
These are followed by a feast of short and simple activities designed to help you make quick starts with your students and hold their attention.
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