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.
This richly detailed description and analysis of exemplary teaching in the primary grades looks at how a teacher establishes her classroom as a collaborative learning community, how she plans curriculum and instruction that features powerful ideas and applications to life outside of school, and how, working within this context, she motivates her students to learn with a sense of purpose and thoughtful self-regulation.
Rising Star is a lively two- level course that bridges the gap between intermediate level and the First Certificate in English (FCE) course. It introduces teenagers to the exam through carefully graded FCE- type tasks and motivates them to learn with stimulating material.
Wavelength is the ideal series for students who want natural conversational English – presented through topics, characters and situations they can relate to. The strong grammar syllabus combined with a contemporary approach motivates students, developing accuracy and confidence with plenty of practice and support.
