This book addresses Problem-based Learning (PBL) in elementary schools and reveals how this can promote elementary students development in critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration, and citizenship, also known as the 5 Cs. Through teachers interviews, the book explores which PBL strategies promote skills and knowledge gains when students collaboratively investigate authentic o…
This book provides a pupil-centered, teacher-friendly approach where each youngster from his or her own starting point can advance up a school's curriculum ladder as far and as fast as the pupil's skills allow.
Addressing the curricular, instructional and assessment needs of upper grade elementary teachers, this book helps to promote literacy development in their English language learners
A practical workbook with guidance, ideas, practice tasks and photocopiable resources to help trainee history teachers develop imaginative approaches to presenting their subject in a classroom and promote pupils? learning
Strategy instruction" is quickly becoming one of the most common--and perhaps the most commonly misunderstood--components of adolescent literacy research and practice. In this essay, veteran teacher educator Mark Conley argues that a particular type of strategy instruction known as cognitive strategy instruction holds great promise for improving adolescents' reading, writing, and thinking acros…
Using a multiple-case embedded research design (Yin, 1994), this study examined the nature of teachers' learning during technology professional development activities and the extent to which their subsequent technology-supported pedagogy was innovative. Four English language arts teachers, who ranged in teaching and technology experience, served as contrasting case studies. Results suggested th…