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Everything You Need To Know About Teaching But Are Too Busy To Ask
Essential Briefings for Teachers
Everything You Need To Know About Teaching But Are Too Busy To Ask
Essential Briefings for Teachers
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Description
The pace of change within education is bewildering and for those at the chalkface it can be hard to keep up with the latest developments - even those that have a direct impact on their work.
This indispensable book will help all teachers by providing concise and jargon-free briefings on 50 key topics in education. Aimed primarily at busy teachers, the book will help to demystify a whole host of hot topics, ranging from accelerated learning to personalised learning.
Each briefing contains:
- An authoritative and independent summary of the topic
- Cross-references to other listings
- Suggestions for further reading
- Questions and action points.
Written by award-wining authors Brin Best and Will Thomas, the book will help all those involved in education to stay up to date with the latest developments. A companion volume to the Creative Teaching and Learning Toolkit, this fascinating guide will help every teacher to enhance their professional knowledge for their own and their students' benefit.
Everything You Need To Know About Teaching But Are Too Busy To Ask will be a vital addition to every teacher's toolkit.
Table of Contents
Accelerated learning
Active learning
Assessment for learning
Brain breaks
Coaching
Cognitive acceleration programmes
Constructivism
Continuing Professional Development
Creativity across the curriculum
Differentiation
Drama across the curriculum
Emotional intelligence
Enquiry-based learning
Every Child Matters
Evidence-based teaching
Gender awareness
Giving learners a voice
Hypnosis in education
ICT across the curriculum
Inclusion
Independent learning
Learning preferences
Literacy across the curriculum
Managing learners' behaviour
Managing upwards
Managing workload
Marking
Mentoring
Metaphor
Mind-mapping
More able students
Multi-cultural awareness
Multiple Intelligences
National strategies for schools (literacy, numeracy, ICTAC etc)
Neuro-linguistic programming (NIP)
Numeracy across the curriculum
Oracy across the curriculum
Personlization in education
Presenting skills
Questioning
Research in education
Self-evaluation
Streaming, setting, banding or mixed-ability teaching?
Starters and plenaries
Target setting approaches
Teaching style
Thinking skills
Transition
Underachievement
Writing frames / scaffolding
Each briefing will comprise:
What is it / what are they?
Knowledge bank
Ask yourself
To do list
Want to find out more?
See also ...
Product details
| Published | Dec 15 2007 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781441101693 |
| Imprint | Continuum |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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