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Teaching Tough Topics

By (author) Larry Swartz
Categories: Teacher training

Teaching Tough Topics shows teachers how to lead students to become caring citizens as they read and respond to quality children’s literature. It focuses on topics that can be challenging or sensitive, ...

Word by Word

By (author) Larry Swartz
Categories: Teacher training

This practical guide is designed to help students discover why words matter as they build vocabulary; gain confidence to spell new and difficult words; develop word recognition and process unfamiliar ...

La relation d'attachement en classe

Des recherches récentes ont montré les bénéfices d’une saine relation entre l’élève et son enseignant. Cette relation est l’une des conditions favorisant la réussite scolaire des élèves. ...

Sharing Breath

The field of embodiment theorizes bodies as knowledgeable in ways that include but are not solely cognitive. The contributors to this collection suggest developing embodied ways of teaching, learning, ...

The Craft of University Teaching

What does university teaching—as a craft—look like? What changes does a craft perspective suggest for higher education? The Craft of University Teaching addresses these questions in both a general ...

Powerful Understanding

By (author) Adrienne Gear
Categories: Teacher training

Explore effective ways to build social emotional skills and help students make connections, question what they read, and reflect on their learning as they develop into stronger readers and learners. Critical ...

Moving Math

Moving Math is a resource that focuses on “moving” the teaching and learning of mathematics by shifting instruction and assessment practices. The book describes how using key thinking skills helps ...

The Slow Professor

If there is one sector that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatization of the university demands increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless ...

The Four Roles of the Numerate Learner

By (author) Mary Fiore & Maria Luisa Lebar
Categories: Teacher training

Discover an integrated approach to numeracy that borrows from literacy frameworks to effectively teach math.

This timely book builds on our current understanding of how to effectively teach mathematics, ...

Reading Power, Revised & Expanded Edition

By (author) Adrienne Gear
Categories: Teacher training

A ground-breaking approach to reading and thinking—help students connect, question, visualize, infer, and transform.

Reading Power has evolved into a recognized approach to comprehension instruction ...