Activating And Engaging Learners And Teachers

Author : Carmen Amerstorfer,Max von Blanckenburg
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823394600

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This book offers a nuanced, integrated understanding of EFL learning and instruction and investigates both learner and teacher perspectives on four thematically interconnected parts. Part I encompasses chapters on psychological aspects related to teaching and learning and presents the latest research on positive language education, teacher empathy, and well-being. Part II deals with EFL teaching methodology, specifically related to teaching pronunciation, language assessment, peer response, and strategy instruction. Part III addresses aspects of cultural learning including inter- and transculturality, digital citizenship, global learning, and cosmopolitanism. Part IV concerns teaching with literary texts, for instance, to reflect on social and political discourse, facilitate empowerment, imagine utopian or dystopian futures, and to bring non-Western narratives into language classrooms.

Author : Carmen Amerstorfer,Max von Blanckenburg
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823304784

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Activating and Engaging Learners and Teachers by Carmen Amerstorfer,Max von Blanckenburg Pdf

This book offers a nuanced, integrated understanding of EFL learning and instruction and investigates both learner and teacher perspectives on four thematically interconnected parts. Part I encompasses chapters on psychological aspects related to teaching and learning and presents the latest research on positive language education, teacher empathy, and well-being. Part II deals with EFL teaching methodology, specifically related to teaching pronunciation, language assessment, peer response, and strategy instruction. Part III addresses aspects of cultural learning including inter- and transculturality, digital citizenship, global learning, and cosmopolitanism. Part IV concerns teaching with literary texts, for instance, to reflect on social and political discourse, facilitate empowerment, imagine utopian or dystopian futures, and to bring non-Western narratives into language classrooms.

Author : Sarah Mercer,Zoltán Dörnyei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781108445931

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Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms by Sarah Mercer,Zoltán Dörnyei Pdf

This accessible book offers a fresh perspective on engagement, with an emphasis on how teachers can create the conditions for active engagement and the role learners can play in shaping the way they learn. Drawing on extensive theoretical knowledge, the book takes an applied approach, providing clear principles and practical strategies for teachers.

Author : Paola Sztajn,Daniel Heck,Kristen Malzahn
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781071821572

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Activating Math Talk by Paola Sztajn,Daniel Heck,Kristen Malzahn Pdf

Achieve High-Quality Mathematics Discourse With Purposeful Talk Techniques Many mathematics teachers agree that engaging students in high quality discourse is important for their conceptual learning, but successfully promoting such discourse in elementary classrooms—with attention to the needs of every learner—can be a challenge. Activating Math Talk tackles this challenge by bringing practical, math-specific, productive discourse techniques that are applicable to any lesson or curriculum. Framed around 11 student-centered discourse techniques, this research-based book connects purposeful instructional techniques to specific lesson goals and includes a focus on supporting emergent multilingual learners. You will be guided through each technique with Classroom examples of tasks and techniques spanning grades K–5 Reflection moments to help you consider how key ideas relate to your own instruction Classroom vignettes that illustrate the techniques in action and provide opportunities to analyze and prepare for your own implementation Group discussion questions for engaging with colleagues in your professional community Achieving high-quality mathematics discourse is within your reach using the clear-cut techniques that activates your math talk efforts to promote every student’s conceptual learning.

Author : Andy Griffith,Mark Burns
Publisher : Crown House Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781845908249

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Outstanding Teaching by Andy Griffith,Mark Burns Pdf

A class can be skilled and motivated to learn without a teacher always having to lead. Engaging learners in this way unpicks intrinsic motivation, the foundation that underpins a productive learning environment and helps to develop independent learning, creativity and improved behaviour management. Based on five years of intensive research through Osiris Educational's award-winning Outstanding Teaching Intervention programme, during which the authors have trained more than 500 teachers to teach over 1,300 lessons in schools nationwide, this book is packed with proven advice and innovative tools developed in these successful outstanding lessons. Written in the same humorous, thought-provoking style with which they both teach and train, Andy and Mark aim to challenge all who teach, from NQTs to seasoned professionals, to reflect on their day-to-day practice and set an agenda for sustainable teacher and leadership improvement. Shortlisted for the Education Resources Awards 2013, Educational Book Award category. Click here to view the related paperback title Outstanding Teaching: Teaching Backwards, 14.99.

Author : Warren Kidd,Gerry Czerniawski
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781473903272

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Teaching Teenagers by Warren Kidd,Gerry Czerniawski Pdf

For successful classroom teaching, your students need to be engaged and active learners. In this book, there is practical advice that is grounded in the realities of teaching in today′s classrooms on how to be an inspirational teacher and produce highly motivated students. This book contains 220 positive, practical teaching ideas that are relevant to both new and experienced classroom teachers. Contents cover: - teaching tools to inspire and captivate - motivation for learning - engaging learners - how to create a learning atmosphere - classroom management - cooperative learning - learning outside of the classroom - moving learners around the room - assessment for motivation and engagement - feedback and praise - using emerging technologies to engage - using homework - supporting learners in learning how to learn - challenging learners of all abilities With reference to reflective practice, best practice and Continuing Professional Development (CPD), this book provides essential support for trainee teachers, new teachers and experienced teachers looking to extend their repertoire. Warren Kidd is Senior Lecturer in Post Compulsory Education and Training at The Cass School of Education, University of East London. Gerry Czerniawski is Senior Lecturer in Secondary Social Science and Humanities Education at the Cass School of Education, University of East London.

Author : Alan Denton,Simon Brownhill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317239604

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Becoming a Brilliant Trainer by Alan Denton,Simon Brownhill Pdf

This essential guide provides both new and established trainers with accessible, innovative and engaging strategies to create an inspirational learning environment. This professional book is suitable for early years, primary and secondary teachers, school leaders and heads of department who are supporting their teaching colleagues in schools. It offers practical advice on planning and delivering great training sessions, including suggestions on how best to share existing knowledge in a group and how to combine dialogue and written text to effectively develop ideas in the classroom. The thinking behind each idea is not only clearly explained but is accompanied with a wealth of practical strategies that can be applied to a variety of training and teaching situations. This accessible resource is designed to help busy teaching professionals motivate their colleagues and deliver effective training. Generously illustrated throughout, the book is separated into four learning phases: preparing for successful training; offering direct input through new ideas; embedding participant learning; and monitoring, evaluating and planning for the future. Becoming a Brilliant Trainer: A Teacher’s Guide to Running Sessions and Engaging Learners will be an invaluable text for both trainee and qualified teachers, school leaders and all those with an interest in delivering great training sessions.

Author : Valentina Canese,Susan Spezzini
Publisher : ISL-FIL-UNA
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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TEACHING ENGLISH IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS: Language, Learners and Learning by Valentina Canese,Susan Spezzini Pdf

Author : Julian A. Reed
Publisher : IAP
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641132626

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Activating the Modern Classroom by Julian A. Reed Pdf

From the team that brought you Walkabouts — Activating the Modern Classroom presents research and provides engaging, easy-to-implement classroom activities to help elementary-grade teachers address some of today’s most pressing challenges. Learn strategies — and the science behind them — to activate educational content with movement in ways that improve behavior, increase focus, and enhance academic engagement and performance. Activating the Modern Classroom includes practical tips for elementary-grade teachers to address pressing classroom challenges. In the book, teachers will learn strategies, and the science behind them, to activate language arts, literacy, math, social studies, and science curriculum in ways that improve student behavior, increase student focus, and enhance student’ academic engagement and performance. Ideas for incorporating creative movement into the school day (including activity breaks) are also included. Activating the Modern Classroom includes research-based answers to the following questions: What does current brain research tell us about movement? What are activity breaks? and What is an integrated curriculum? In addition, the book includes research-based strategies for helping kinesthetic learners and describes how moving while learning can help students with ADD and ADHD. The book also includes descriptions of three web-based platforms that can be used in the classroom to integrate curriculum and movement and why and how this is beneficial to students. Finally, the book includes movement-based activities for language arts, literacy, math, social studies, and science that integrate movement and improve student behavior, increase student focus, and enhance student’ academic engagement and performance. Ideas for incorporating creative movement into the school day (including activity breaks) are also included.

Author : Jon Tait
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781472945341

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100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Engaging Learners by Jon Tait Pdf

Are your students really engaged in your teaching? Teachers everywhere are looking for quick and easy ways to liven up their lessons, try something new and exciting, or just tweak a strategy or practice that they have been doing for years. This is a 'recipe style' books that you can dip in and out of when you are looking for inspiration. 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Engaging Learners contains techniques and activities to apply to every area of classroom teaching, from livening up displays to using technology effectively, and even includes advice on greeting students and providing motivational feedback. Put these ideas into practice to get your class engaged and ready to learn.

Author : Des Hewitt,Brittany Wright
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781526462992

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Engaging, Motivating and Empowering Learners in Schools by Des Hewitt,Brittany Wright Pdf

Successful teachers are able to motivate and inspire the children they teach and this is a skill that can only be supported by understanding good practice. This book gives you smart, pragmatic guidance backed by evidence-based research on how to engage and inspire in your teaching. It looks at both how you can influence and shape the learning that goes on in your classroom and how you can apply key lessons to your own professional development as a teacher. Key coverage includes: · The psychology of motivation and its implications for the classroom · Behaviour for learning · Essential advice on of safeguarding, mental health and wellbeing · Active learning and engaging your pupils in the learning process · How to develop as a professional and empowered teacher

Author : John Almarode,Ann M. Miller
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452218021

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Captivate, Activate, and Invigorate the Student Brain in Science and Math, Grades 6-12 by John Almarode,Ann M. Miller Pdf

If your STEM lessons are falling on disinterested ears, it's time to mix things up. What you need are more engaging, brain-based science and math strategies to captivate your students' attention, activate their prior knowledge, and invigorate their interest. Blending current research on the student brain with practical methods for teaching science and math, John Almarode and Ann M. Miller identify six essential "ingredients" in a recipe for student success. In their book you'll discover A customizable framework you can use right away Classroom-ready, content-specific attention grabbers Overt and covert strategies to boost behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement Techniques for making relevant connections that maximize retention With this new approach to captivating STEM lessons, you'll energize classroom time and keep your students on task and engaged-every day.

Author : Susan Hentz,Michelle Vacchio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 141662905X

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Engaging Students in Every Classroom (Quick Reference Guide) by Susan Hentz,Michelle Vacchio Pdf

Student engagement is a crucial catalyst for positive learning outcomes, and educators must plan for engagement in all aspects of teaching. In this quick reference guide, Susan Hentz and Michelle Vacchio present strategies to foster student engagement through four key steps:* Build a community of learners.* Establish effective classroom management.* Plan for collaboration in flexible groups.* Develop questioning and discussion.Engaging Students in Every Classroom helps teachers facilitate, guide, and encourage learners to become active participants in the classroom; provides reflection questions educators can use to monitor their own progress; and supplies the essential structures and actions that best set up every classroom for engagement.8.5" x 11" 3-panel foldout guide (6 pages), laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

Author : Janice Wearmouth,Karen Lindley
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335249886

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Ebook: Briging the Curriculum to Life: Engaging Learners in the English Education System by Janice Wearmouth,Karen Lindley Pdf

How can we bring the curriculum to life so that all young people of compulsory school age are fully engaged in their learning and achieve to their maximum? Professor Janice Wearmouth and Dr Karen Lindley bring together contributions from practising teachers, researchers and academics to answer this question for a range of educational contexts and demonstrate the positive impact that can be achieved on student learning at all levels. This edited volume highlights challenges and opportunities within the current English education system. With reflective questions and ideas for teachers to implement in the classroom, this important book bridges the gap between theory and practice and will be invaluable reading for trainee teachers, teacher trainers, qualified teachers and others with an interest in education and the curriculum. "The intrinsic value of the book is that it seeks to illuminate the discussions surrounding the issues identified, from differing and alternative perspectives in education." Dr Barry Paraskeva Costas, Senior Lecturer in Physical Education, University of Hertfordshire, UK "A highly engaging and refreshing look at how a diverse range of learners might be immersed in their learning, this book provides an imaginative and thought-provoking consideration of creative curricula to involve and inspire learners." Julie Wharton, Senior Lecturer, University of Winchester, UK "This book does an excellent job of drawing together a wide range of contributions and contexts that collectively put the challenges and opportunities of curriculum centre stage." Dr Warren Kidd, School of Education and Communities, University of East London, UK Janice Wearmouth is Professor of Education at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Dr Karen Lindley is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Both editors are experienced teachers and researchers with continuing close links to Education students, trainee teachers, teacher trainers and practising teachers.

Author : Gayle H. Gregory
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506343099

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Teacher as Activator of Learning by Gayle H. Gregory Pdf

Flip the Switch! How to Get Students Into Learning Mode Now. In his well-known meta-analysis, John Hattie suggests that facilitating learning is not as effective or powerful as activating learning. In this book Gayle Gregory shows you how to facilitate better and deeper learning. Packed with practical strategies that teachers can use every day to increase student achievement, you will also discover what educational neuroscience says about nurturing a "growth mindset" and creating classrooms that support and encourage students to take risks and "fail forward." Learn how to Foster student dialogue and thinking Orchestrate productive, reflective flexible student groups Develop respectful learning relationships between and among students and teachers Teacher competencies and clarity related to student goals and success criteria, with quality feedback, are essential for student success. This resource will enrich learning environments for students and increase the chance of success for all. "In going from ‘teachers as fount of knowledge’ to ′teacher as facilitator’ the field has overcorrected. Gayle Gregory corrects all that with a comprehensive and deep portrayal of the need for ’teachers to be activators’ of learning in partnership with students. Based on equal measure of research and practice Gregory gives is a compelling set of ideas and tools to maximize student learning and engagement. Read it and hit the ground running!" Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/University of Toronto