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Examines the challenges and potentials of teaching literature at Open and Virtual Universities in a wide range of national, cultural and linguistic contexts. This book explores seminal issues, including literature pedagogy and curriculum building, canon and theory debates, the uses of hypertext and other digital tools for literary instruction.

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Showcases, with practical guidance, how literature can be an integral part of a modern foreign language lessons promoting comprehension and cultural awareness.

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Showcases, with practical guidance, how literature can be an integral part of a modern foreign language lessons promoting comprehension and cultural awareness.

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Written for in-service teachers, this volume covers techniques for teaching literature to 11-18 years olds as well as covering the works and authors taught throughout the syllabus.

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Part III, which deals with advanced coursework, includes chapters on courses in mass communication law, mass media management, and history, mass media and politics, media criticism, and media ethics.

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Numerous examples from early years and primary classrooms are included as well as checklists and helpful advice. There are also suggestions for further reading to assist trainee and newly qualified teachers in meeting the Standards for Initial Teacher Training and Induction.

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This book shows how problems can be the vehicle for learning mathematics itself, and presents a comprehensive pedagogy based on classroom discourse, assessment, critical and creative thinking.

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This book shows how problems can be the vehicle for learning mathematics itself, and presents a comprehensive pedagogy based on classroom discourse, assessment, critical and creative thinking.

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This is the first book on teaching middle school language arts for multiple intelligences and related 21st century literacies in technologically and ethnically diverse communities. Roseboro's book provides an entire academic year of inspiring theory and instruction in multimed...

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The change needed in urban music education not only relates to the idea that music should be at the center of the curriculum; rather, it is that culturally relevant music should be a creative force at the center of reform in urban education. This work is a national-level conversation aimed at making that goal a reality.

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The change needed in urban music education not only relates to the idea that music should be at the center of the curriculum; rather, it is that culturally relevant music should be a creative force at the center of reform in urban education. This work is a national-level conversation aimed at making that goal a reality.

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Addresses the complex issues involved in teaching philosophy at undergraduate level. This book seeks to bring teaching philosophy higher on the academic agenda. It argues that philosophy is a subject that can transform students. It also offers practical guidance and advice for teachers of philosophy.

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In the academic climate, teaching is often seen as secondary to research. This book seeks to bring teaching philosophy higher on the academic agenda. It offers practical guidance and advice for teachers of philosophy. It suggests ways in which the teaching of philosophy at undergraduate level might be facilitated.

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Here, two dozen distinguished philosophers share their insights and practical suggestions on a diverse range of pedagogic issues with essays on how to motivate students, constructing syllabi for particular courses, teaching particularly complex concepts, and constructing creative examinations.

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This book introduces the central issues in teaching PE in the secondary school. The book includes chapters on all key aspects of provision and chapters on areas that are often neglected.

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A textbook for teacher training and newly qualified teachers in physical education for five- to 11-year-olds. It covers a range of activities, from gymnastics to dance, adventurous activities to health education, and blends theory and practice, with worksheets, sample documents and reports.

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A guide to the teaching and learning of physical education in the primary school. It presents a developmental approach encouraging readers to plan lessons that are individually relevant, worthwhile and exciting for children, and to ensure that learning is at the heart of the physical education experience.

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A guide to the teaching and learning of physical education in the primary school. It takes a developmental approach, encouraging readers to plan lessons that are individually relevant, worthwhile and exciting for children, and to ensure that learning is at the heart of the physical education experience.

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This is a practical guide for teachers of middle-school students that provides clear and fully-developed lesson plans and activities that use the teaching of poetry reading and writing as a vehicle for developing students own creativity and appreciation for diversity.

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Educators seek sound understanding, practical advice, and proven strategies in order to connect diverse literature to 21st-century societies while meeting state and professional standards like the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. This book offers strategies and resources that work.

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Walker and Shaw link the teaching of ten commonly taught reading strategies such as sequencing, compare and contrast, and prediction to picture book titles. Each chapter of the book provides a strategy, a graphic organizer to teach it with, and an in-depth modeled discussion of how to use the strategy with two or three books.

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Covering every major issue required for qualification as a Science teacher, the chapters in this book follow the structure of the Teacher Training Authority's national standards.

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The literature of science fiction packs up the facts and discoveries of science and runs off to futures filled with both wonders and warnings. and detailed lesson plans for an earth science unit where students travel the depths of time and create their own time travelers' diaries.