Teaching For Purpose

Author : Heather Malin
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781682532591

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In Teaching for Purpose, Heather Malin explores the idea of purpose as the purpose of education and shows how educators can prepare youth to live intentional, fulfilling lives. The book highlights the important role that purpose—defined as “a future-directed goal that is personally meaningful and aimed at contributing to something larger than the self”—plays in optimal youth development and in motivating students to promote the cognitive and noncognitive skills that teachers want to instill. Based on a decade of research conducted at the Stanford University Center on Adolescence, the book explores how educators and schools can promote purpose through attention to school culture, curriculum, project learning, service learning, and other opportunities. Malin argues for expansive thinking on the direction schools should take, especially in terms of educating students to be creative, innovative, and self-directed critical thinkers. The book includes profiles of six organizations working in schools across the US that have made purpose development a priority. Infused with the engaging voices of purposeful youth, Teaching for Purpose offers a fresh, inspirational guide for educators who are looking for new ways to support students to succeed not only in school, but in life.

Author : Karen Gazith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1951075498

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"Teaching is a daunting, challenging endeavor, but author Karen Gazith seeks to help teachers incorporate best practices into their classrooms. Her book The Mindful and Purposeful Teacher: Research-Informed Practice for Every Student in Every Classroom is built on seven well-researched principles that can assist teachers in creating a classroom environment conducive to learning for every student present. The topics covered range from classroom management to establishing learning goals and are applicable to new and veteran teachers alike. These seven principles construct a robust picture of what education can and should be: a safe place of learning and growth"--

Author : Tom Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135714925

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Teaching about Teaching by Tom Russell Pdf

Considers teacher education as an important aspects of the teaching profession and demonstrates why it is so important for higher education institutions to value their teacher educators' professional knowledge. The book demonstrates how teaching about teaching knowledge pedagogy is vital to the development of quality in teacher education and how this knowledge needs to be articulated and communicated throughout the teaching profession, both in schools and universities.

Author : Leslie David Burns,Stergios Botzakis
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807774922

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Teach on Purpose! by Leslie David Burns,Stergios Botzakis Pdf

Great teaching is not just a matter of talent or creativity or passion. Teachers are made, not born, and great teachers know why they do what they do in their classrooms. They do it strategically and purposefully based on technique. Teach on Purpose! demonstrates a high-quality research-based and practical approach to teaching that focuses on how to use data about students’ identities, experiences, and knowledge to design responsive curriculum and instruction that ensures learning. The authors provide secondary school teachers with scientifically proven strategies for creating learning environments that increase student motivation, engagement, and academic achievement. The text features model units authored and taught by practicing classroom teachers in math, science, social studies, and language arts to demonstrate key principles that can be used in any classroom to be a true professional educator. Teach on Purpose! empowers teachers across all content areas to create meaningful teaching and learning experiences together with their students for the success of all. “Examines powerfully both the art and the science, the heart and the mind of teaching, arguing for distributive practices that link healing and hope to profound opportunities based in responsive classroom engagements” —David Kirkland, associate professor of English and Urban Education, New York University “Will energize you and remind you why you joined the teaching profession in the first place.” —Renee Boss, National Board Certified Teacher and Education Blogger “Encourages us all to remember that we shape our students with the skills we help them develop and, just as equally, with the fires we ignite within them.” —Ashley Lamb-Sinclair, former student and 2016 Kentucky Teacher of the Year “Soon-to-be-teachers, new teachers, veteran teachers, embittered teachers, emboldened teachers, and even those who prepare and work with those teachers will benefit from this book.” —Brandon Abdon, Advanced Placement Program, The College Board

Author : John E. Penick,Robin Lee Harris
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780873552417

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Teaching with Purpose by John E. Penick,Robin Lee Harris Pdf

The best science teachers don't just get up in front of the class and start talking. They draw from a plan'a rationale'a purpose. This book helps you create and implement a detailed, research-based teaching rationale that works even with students of varied needs in less-than-ideal facilities. The key is a method that this book's authors and their colleagues have used to help more than 3,000 preservice and inservice science teachers achieve improved results in their classrooms. Teaching with Purpose provides a framework for coordinating your unique students and school with your desired educational outcomes and the education research literature. You can use this framework in several aspects of teaching: for planning lessons and units, selecting activities and curriculum, and analyzing your role as teacher. All this is explained within the book's easy-to-grasp structure. It covers the case for a research-based teaching rationale, the elements of such a rationale, how to develop and implement it, and then how to become a mentor to others. Throughout the text, more than a dozen elementary, middle, and high school science teachers comment on how developing a research-based rationale has made them better educators. The book's combination of theory and practice, instruction and inspiration, makes it ideal for planning personal development and for use at teacher workshops.

Author : Peter Loel Boonshaft
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 1574630768

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Teaching Music with Purpose by Peter Loel Boonshaft Pdf

(Meredith Music Resource). Like his first critically acclaimed international bestseller Teaching Music with Passion , this new book from Peter Boonshaft is even more poignant and powerful. Called one of the most exciting and exhilarating voices in music education today, Boonshaft's latest work is both inspirational and instructional and will definitely warm your heart and transform your teaching. (a href="http://youtu.be/bHQ21-tjgEU" target="_blank")Click here for a YouTube video on Teaching Music with Purpose(/a)

Author : Terry Burant,Linda Christensen,Kelley Dawson Salas,Stephanie Walters
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780942961478

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The New Teacher Book by Terry Burant,Linda Christensen,Kelley Dawson Salas,Stephanie Walters Pdf

Teaching is a lifelong challenge, but the first few years in the classroom are typically a teacher's hardest. This expanded collection of writings and reflections offers practical guidance on how to navigate the school system, form rewarding relationships with colleagues, and connect in meaningful ways with students and families from all cultures and backgrounds.

Author : Craig Gibson,Sharon Mader
Publisher : Assoc of College & Research Libraries
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 0838946569

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Building Teaching and Learning Communities by Craig Gibson,Sharon Mader Pdf

Building Teaching and Learning Communities: Creating Shared Meaning and Purpose goes beyond the library profession for inspiration and insights from leading experts in higher education pedagogy and educational development across North America to open a window on the wider world of teaching and learning, and includes discussion of pedagogical theories and practices including threshold concepts and stuck places; the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL); disciplinary approaches to pedagogy; the role of signature pedagogies; inclusion of student voices; metaliteracy; reflective practice; affective, behavioral, and cognitive aspects of learning; liminal spaces; and faculty as learners. This unique collection asks each of the authors to address this question: What do we as educators need to learn (or unlearn) and experience so we can create teaching and learning communities across disciplines and learning levels based on shared meaning and purpose?

Author : James D. Kirylo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475812954

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Teaching with Purpose by James D. Kirylo Pdf

For five days a week for approximately nine months out of the year totaling countless hours, teachers work with other people’s most treasured gifts—their children. That the teacher is the most important element in fostering an energetic, engaging, and inspiring classroom environment where authentic learning can unfold cannot be overstated. Indeed, it is the teacher who understands self or does not; it is the teacher who is prepared or is not; it is the teacher who has command of subject matter or does not; it is the teacher who inculcates in an appropriate way or does not; and, it is the teacher who is patient, understanding, empathetic, and enthusiastic or is not. To that end, Teaching With Purpose underscores what it means to be an insightful teacher, foundationally emphasizing that the central aspect toward richly transforming education is through the professionalization of what it means to be a teacher. Written in accessible language, and attentive to connecting theory to practice, the benefits and features of this book are mindful of a diverse readership.

Author : Ann K. Fathman,David T. Crowther
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780873552530

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Teaching with Purpose by Ann K. Fathman,David T. Crowther Pdf

Making a case for a research-based teaching rationale -- Elements of a research-based rationale -- Developing a research-based rationale -- Implementing your rationale and becoming a mentor

Author : Alison Margaret St. George,Seth Brown,John O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 0170350088

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Facing the Big Questions in Teaching by Alison Margaret St. George,Seth Brown,John O'Neill Pdf

Author : Sally Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925132633

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Teaching Poetry for Pleasure and Purpose by Sally Murphy Pdf

his book is designed to encourage and upskill teachers to introduce and explore poetry in the classroom with their students. Poetry has many proven benefits for learning outcomes and can help significantly in students' literacy journey. Dr Murphy's book is packed full of poem-driven activities and tips for engaging students with poetry. Dr Murphy says "As well as writing books, I am a poet. I love crafting poetry on all kinds of topics, and in a range of forms, both rhyming and unrhyming."

Author : Christy McConnell,Bradley Conrad,P. Bruce Uhrmacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807763988

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Lesson Planning with Purpose by Christy McConnell,Bradley Conrad,P. Bruce Uhrmacher Pdf

"Lesson Planning with Purpose takes readers on a journey through many pathways to engaging and meaningful educational experiences. The text first discusses Perceptive Teaching and then explores five unique approaches to lesson planning: behaviorist, constructivist, aesthetic, ecological, and integrated social-emotional learning. Chapters end with a sample lesson that can be compared across approaches"--

Author : John Bitchener,Neomy Storch,Rosemary Wette
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351979757

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Teaching Writing for Academic Purposes to Multilingual Students by John Bitchener,Neomy Storch,Rosemary Wette Pdf

Examining what is involved in learning to write for academic purposes from a variety of perspectives, this book focuses in particular on issues related to academic writing instruction in diverse contexts, both geographical and disciplinary. Informed by current theory and research, leading experts in the field explain and illustrate instructional programs, tasks, and activities that help L2/multilingual writers develop knowledge of different genres, disciplinary expectations, and expertise in applying what they have learned in both educational and professional contexts.

Author : Edgar Stones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136662058

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Educational Objectives and the Teaching of Educational Psychology by Edgar Stones Pdf

The purpose of this book is to promote discussion about educational objectives generally and objectives in the teaching of educational psychology in particular. To this end, Part 1 contains a review of the literature concerned with these two subjects, and also reports on investigations into the views of British students, teachers, college staffs and educational psychologists on the question of the objectives of educational psychology in teacher preparation. A comprehensive bibliography is provided. A further important section of Part 1 proposes a method of systematizing teaching objectives, and suggests a heuristic device for the generation of objectives at different levels of conceptual generality and complexity of learning. An example of this model in the field of educational psychology is presented, which illustrates the general approach to the generation of teaching objectives and proposes a specific approach to the production of teaching objectives in educational psychology. In Part 2 a selection of readings in the fields of objectives and educational psychology provides the reader with some of the key source material referred to in Part 1. As well as being a valuable and stimulating addition to the current debate on the specifying of educational objectives, the arguments in this book about the role of educational psychology in teacher preparation raise some fundamental questions for those concerned with teacher education.