Professional Development for Language Teachers: Strategies for Teacher Learning
Second and foreign language teaching provides a career for hundreds of thousands of teachers worldwide, and the vast educational enterprise of English language teaching could not operate effectively without the dedication and effort of such teachers day by day and year by year throughout their careers.
Educating Economists: The Teagle Discussion on Re-evaluating the Undergraduate Economics Major
`This volume is an excellent outcome of an American Economic Association Committee for Economic Education project aimed at advancing the teaching of economics within a liberal arts context. Dave Colander and KimMarie McGoldrick assembled a most able panel of contributors for this effort that includes dialogue on what should be taught, how it should be taught, and how that teaching and learning should be assessed and rewarded. To the editors' credit, they have not attempted to dictate policy but to stimulate debate on the topics.
This book is based upon their methods of acquiring a new language, which are: 1. the teaching of the concrete by visual demonstration and dramatization, 2. the teaching of the abstract by association of ideas 3. the teaching of grammar by means of examples and as a product of analogy.
Easy Strategies and Activities to Help Kids Explore and Enrich Their Experience with Literature
If you are not already familiar with teaching literary elements or what they are, this is a good reference for you.
Creative and exciting ways to help students understand literary elements and develop a vocabulary with which to discuss literature and its elements such as character, plot, setting, theme, motivation, point-of-view and more. Includes models from well-known works of literature, and reproducibles.
