Mathematical Connections: A Companion for Teachers

This book is about some of the topics that form the foundations for high school mathematics. It focuses on a closely-knit collection of ideas that are at the intersection of algebra, arithmetic, combinatorics, geometry, and calculus. Most of the ideas are classical: methods for fitting polynomial functions to data, for summing powers of integers, for visualizing the iterates of a function defined on the complex plane, or for obtaining identities among entries in Pascal's triangle. 

This volume explores how technology is creating rich and productive learning environments. It features contributions from the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Sweden. It should be of particular interest to anyone seeking a survey of the opportunities that ICT offers and the ways in which IT is transforming education.

The book is structured around core teaching issues, such as: subject; activation of learning using ICT; supporting interaction; assessing outcomes; and providing feedback.

On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching

You go into teaching with high hopes: to inspire students, to motivate them to learn, to help them love your subject. Then you find yourself facing a crowd of expectant faces on the first day of the first semester, and you think “Now what do I do?”
Practical and lively, On Course is full of experience-tested, research-based advice for graduate students and new teaching faculty. It provides a range of innovative and traditional strategies that work well without requiring extensive preparation or long grading..

Rules, Patterns and Words: Grammar and Lexis in English Language Teaching

Grammar is central to language pedagogy and teachers need a clear description of what constitutes grammar and how it can best be taught in the English language classroom. This book illustrates a new way of describing the grammar of spoken and written English. In an accessible style, the author demonstrates how lexical phrases, frames and patterns provide a link between grammar and vocabulary. He also discusses how the different aspects of the language require different learning processes and different teaching techniques. 

Teaching Intensive and Accelerated Courses: Instruction that Motivates Learning

In this comprehensive resource, Raymond J. Wlodkowski and Margery B. Ginsberg describe how to meet the challenge of teaching intensive and accelerated courses to nontraditional learners and working adults. By making motivation and cultural relevance essential to instruction, they clearly show what instructors can do to enhance learning in classes that can last from three to six hours.