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In the spring of 2020, educators suddenly found themselves teaching remotely as they and their students began a multiweek period of pandemic-induced isolation. As weeks turned to months, administrators announced that students would not return to campus until the following school year and perhaps even longer. Teachers quickly scrambled to design new pedagogical approaches suitable to a socially-distanced education.Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic presents many lessons learned by educators during the COVID-19 outbreak. The volume consists of two sections. Section one includes chapters discussing how to teach Asian history, politics, culture, and society using examples and case studies emerging from the pandemic. Section two focuses on the pedagogical tools and methods that teachers can employ to teach Asian topics beyond the traditional face-to-face classroom. Both sections are designed for undergraduate instructors as well as high school teachers using prose that is easily accessible for non-specialists. The volume is a collaborative work between the AAS Asia Shorts series and the AAS pedagogical journal Education about Asia, exemplifying the high standards of both publishing ventures.

In the current volume, the selected studies have been grouped into three thematic sections, presenting readers with a set of distinct but related research on meaningful issues for a modern learning experience. The first three chapters present professional and teacher development perspectives and collectively shed light on how to develop, maintain, and improve pre and in-service teacher training and professional development. The second set of four chapters provide research findings that describe the results of direct applications of modern learning elements through course assignments and teaching approaches. The final five chapters focus on critical thinking and range in their focus from classroom-based studies to full-scale curriculum reform. The collection of chapters presented in this volume represents the eclectic nature of modern learning experiences and demonstrate its applicability across educational contexts and disciplines. The chapters resonate with other educational researchers in search of novel ways of creating, facilitating, and investigating modern learning experiences.

Visualisierungen als Türöffner in die Welt des Wissens Das aktuelle (schulische) Leben ist durch vielschichtige und komplexe Sachverhalte geprägt, z. B. die aktuellen Debatten um Globalisierung, Digitalisierung und Inklusion, die auch eine immense Flut von Bildern mit sich bringen. Lehrkräfte holen sich Wissen aus dem virtuellen Raum und machen es für das Lehren und Lernen nutzbar. Gleichzeitig gestalten sie das Lernen gehirngerecht und nachhaltig. Dabei kommt der Visualisierung eine entscheidende Rolle zu. Eine Visualisierung ist sowohl Türöffner in die Welt des Wissens als auch Anker und Orientierungspunkt für den Lernprozess und für Organisationsstrukturen. Sie ist immer eine Form der Reduktion und kann von jedem gelernt werden: von den Schülerinnen und Schülern sowie von der Lehrkraft. Dieser Leitfaden beschäftigt sich mit folgenden Fragen, deren Beantwortung sich wie ein roter Faden durch das Buch zieht: Was ist das Besondere an Visualisierungen? Warum sind Visualisierungen für das Lernen im 21. Jahrhundert bedeutungsvoll? Wie gelingt der Einsatz von Visualisierungen im Unterricht? Die Autorinnen stellen anhand praxisnaher Erklärungen und Beispielen einen Werkzeugkoffer zur Verfügung, mit dem die vielseitige Nutzung von Visualisierungen gelingt, vermitteln grundlegende Kenntnisse über Bildsymbole, Farben und Schatten, (menschliche) Figuren, Rahmen und Container, Bewegungslinien und Pfeile sowie Schrift, geben eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung für die Vermittlung an die Schülerinnen und Schüler. Der Leitfaden richtet sich an Lehrkräfte aller Fächer und Schulformen. Auch für die Beratung, die Schulleitung, die Arbeit an Studienseminaren oder die Schulsozialarbeit bietet er ein hilfreiches Instrumentarium.

Eine aktive Beteiligung der Lernenden verbessert entscheidend die Qualität des Unterrichts und die Lernergebnisse. Das Buch stellt eine Reihe von Lehrmethoden vor, die mit relativ wenig Zeitaufwand durchführbar sind, und liefert nützliches Hintergrundwissen sowie praktische Tipps für die Umsetzung. Die Methoden sind einsetzbar in den unterschiedlichsten Fächern von Technik bis Sprachwissenschaften. Die Neuauflage wurde überarbeitet und insbesondere um neue Aspekte zur digitalen Lehre ergänzt, wie benötigte Tools und Programme, geeignete Methoden zur Organisation und Durchführung der Onlinelehre, rechtliche Aspekte bei digitalen Prüfungen.

Este libro presenta diversas innovaciones educativas en torno a la metodología en los procesos educativos que se llevan a cabo en las aulas de hoy en día, haciendo un recorrido por distintas herramientas, métodos y modelos de enseñanza que se adaptan al proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje actual, y ofreciendo un amplio espectro de aplicaciones didácticas para la enseñanza de distintos niveles. El contenido de la obra resulta innovador, tanto para el proceso de enseñanza como para el de aprendizaje, así como para otros procesos asociados a estos dentro del ámbito didáctico. No solo hablamos de metodologías o herramientas de carácter innovador: también lo hacemos de otro tipo de elementos educativos de los cuales se busca la mejor manera de adaptarlos a las posibilidades que se nos ofrecen actualmente. Así, más allá de innovación, hablamos de retroinnovación de algunas herramientas muy útiles en los procesos educativos. A todas las metodologías que se conocen se les suma en este volumen una buena serie de conocimientos científicos adaptados para el establecimiento de nuevos métodos educativos de cara a completar el panorama docente. Este libro no es solo una compilación de trabajos, sino que se aspira a ser un buen manual para el desarrollo de la acción docente desde los niveles educativos más básicos hasta los más avanzados, así como a servir de base científica para el estudio e investigación de diversos campos educativos que conforman el panorama educativo actual.

Essential Resources for Mindfulness Teachers offers the reader a wealth of knowledge about the explicit and implicit aspects of mindfulness-based teaching. The book focuses on how to develop the craft of teaching mindfulness-based courses and is divided into three parts. Part I addresses the explicit elements of mindfulness-based courses, such as how to offer meditation practices and inquiry. Part II investigates the subtle but powerful implicit qualities needed within the teacher to convey the essence of mindfulness. Part III is a series of chapters on the underpinnings, considerations, and theories surrounding the teaching of mindfulness-based courses, and includes a new framework for reflective practice – the Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Teaching and Learning Companion (the TLC). The book is a core companion text for both trainees and established mindfulness-based teachers, and is a resource you will return to again and again.

Aprendemos y educamos desde la conexión, tanto a nivel cognitivo como emocional. A partir de los avances en neurociencia y pedagogía y la experiencia docente de sus autores, este libro ofrece ideas, estrategias y propuestas prácticas y novedosas para mejorar aspectos que tienen que ver directamente con la personalidad, la comunicación, el desarrollo físico, cognitivo y emocional. Con el objetivo de favorecer la práctica docente, mejorar la labor educativa en casa y contribuir a que sea más provechoso y mejor aprender juntos, los autores ofrecen su aportación, entre otros temas, sobre las emociones, la motivación, la memoria, la atención, el juego, los límites, la creatividad, el sueño, la nutrición, el deporte o las tecnologías.

Learning to Teach: Curricular and Pedagogical Considerations for Teacher Preparation introduces the reader to a collection of thoughtful research-based works by the authors. The chapters reflect the personal and professional experiences, based on field-research, of the contributing authors. The research study presented in each chapter offers different perspectives and approaches to ‘learning to teach'. Bridging theory and research in pre-service teacher preparation programs are examined. Each study reflects the findings on how the components and experiences of teacher preparation are addressed in diverse contexts and disciplines as well as the prevalent challenges for pre-service teacher preparation. Chapter One opens the book with a focus on learning to teach and the importance of symmetry in preparation and practice. Chapters Two – Ten present field-based research that examines the important complexities of ‘learning to teach'in pre-service teacher preparation, acknowledging that across different disciplines the ‘learning to teach'experiences vary based on the role and responsibilities that teachers have upon entering the classroom to teach.

The definitive guide to creating and using experiential exercises in the classroom. For anyone interested in continuously improving their teaching practice, this book provides an overview of the theory and empirical evidence for active learning and the use of experiential exercises.Using a prescriptive model and checklist for creating, adapting or adopting experiential exercises in the classroom, the authors demonstrate evidence-based best practices for each step in the development and use of experiential exercises, including tips, worksheets and checklists to facilitate use of these practices. In addition, the book provides rich examples which illustrate how educators have used this model and practices in their own classrooms, and resources to help find experiential exercises, learn more about effectively using them, and connect with organizations, journals, and people dedicated to the use of experiential exercises in the classroom.Higher education educators seeking to improve their teaching practice, to increase effectiveness and to learn how to develop and use experiential exercises as well as doctoral students learning how to develop and use experiential exercises will find direction and inspiration in Experiential Exercises in the Classroom.

This engaging and practical volume looks at discourse strategies and how they can be used to facilitate and enhance science teaching and learning within the classroom context, offering a synthesis of research on classroom discourse in science education as well as practical discourse strategies that can be applied to the classroom.Focusing on the connection between research and practice, this comprehensive guide unpacks and illustrates key concepts on the role of discourse in students'thinking and learning based on empirical analysis of real conversations in a number of science classrooms. Using real-life classroom examples to extend the scope of research into science classroom discourse begun during the 1990s, Kok-Sing Tang offers original discourse strategies as explicit methods of using discourse to engage in meaning-making and work towards a specific instructional goal. This volume covers new and informative topics including how to use discourse to: Establish classroom activity and interaction Build and assess scientific content knowledge Organize and evaluate scientific narrative Enact scientific practices Coordinate the use of multimodal representations Building on more than ten years of research on classroom discourse, Discourse Strategies for Science Teaching and Learning is an ideal text for science teacher educators, pre-service science teachers, scholars, and researchers.

“What if American Studies is defined not so much in the pages of the most cutting-edge publications, but through what happens in our classrooms and other learning spaces?” In Teaching American Studies Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Joseph Entin, and Rebecca Hill ask a diverse group of American Studies educators to respond to that question by writing chapters about teaching that use a classroom activity or a particular course to reflect on the state of the field of American Studies.Teaching American Studies speaks to teachers with a wide range of relationships to the field. To start, it is a useful how-to guide for faculty who might be new to, or unfamiliar with, American Studies. Each author brings the reader into their classes to offer specific, concrete details about their pedagogical practice and their students'learning. The resulting chapters connect theory and educational action as well as share challenges, difficulties, and lessons learned. The volume also provides a collective impression of American Studies from the point of view of students and teachers. What primary and secondary texts and what theoretical challenges and issues do faculty use to organize their teaching? How does the teaching we do respond to our institutional and educational contexts? How do our experiences and those of our students challenge or change our understanding of American Studies? Chapters in this collection discuss teaching a broad range of materials, from memoirs and novels by Anne Moody and Octavia Butler, to cutting-edge cultural theory, to the widely used collection Keywords for American Cultural Studies. But the chapters in this collection are also about dancing, eating, and walking around a campus to view statues and gravestones. They are about teaching during the era of Donald Trump, of Black Lives Matter, about giving up authority in the classroom, about teaching in the South, in New England, in the Midwest, and for ten-minute intervals at a cooking school in New Jersey.Teaching American Studies is both a new way to think about American Studies and a timely collection of effective ways to teach about race, gender, sexuality, and power in a moment of political polarization and intense public scrutiny of universities.

The research supporting retrieval practice is overwhelming; it is an effective and essential teaching and learning strategy. Leaders, teachers, students and parents all need to know about this strategy and how it can enhance learning. Retrieval practice is being widely used across schools and the research continues to shape classroom practice. After the success of Retrieval Practice: Research & Resources for every classroom, Kate Jones, an evidence-informed teacher and leader, takes the discussion further, going beyond the background, basics, and benefits of this strategy. This book focuses on the effective implementation of retrieval practice to support both teachers and leaders to ensure retrieval practice becomes firmly embedded in classroom routines. There are contributions from leading academics and a range of subject specialists: reflecting and offering their wisdom and expertise as to how retrieval practice can be utilised to have a positive impact in the classroom and on outcomes. From the latest research to addressing common mistakes and tackling retrieval practice during a global pandemic, Retrieval Practice: Implementing, embedding & reflecting takes a fresh and in-depth look at this tried and tested technique.

Chemistry is often seen as a difficult subject to understand. This book focusses on the triangle model that Alex H. Johnstone developed in the early 1980s. Originally conceived in the context of making chemistry more accessible to a wider range of learners, the model has been applied in almost every area of education in chemistry at all stages of learning. In looking at why chemistry is difficult, there are two central questions. Firstly, does the problem relate to the nature of chemistry and, secondly, does it relate to the way humans gain understanding? Both were found to be important and the answers to the two question were found to be connected. The triangle model arose from sustained research into human learning. The central finding from research is the critical role of working memory and the model rationalises so much evidence from chemistry education research as well as the repeated experiences of teachers of chemistry at all levels. In order to understand chemistry, it is essential to develop sound mental models of molecular reality. It generates major implications for the way a chemistry curriculum should be constructed and the processes of teaching and learning in chemistry when the goal is focussed on understanding the key ideas. Some of these implications are developed and pointers offered to more successful ways forward.The power of the Johnstone Triangle lies in the way it offers clear directions for all involved in chemistry education. It is hoped that this book will prove helpful to all involved in sharing the exciting story of the way humans have come to understand the molecular world, one of the great examples of great human endeavour.

Dada la importancia de adquirir estrategias metacognitivas que permitan aprender de forma autónoma, y que están presentes en todo el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje, el propósito de este libro es proponer herramientas metodológicas innovadoras que posibiliten mejorar el desarrollo autónomo del estudiante en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. El libro se estructura en cuatro capítulos. En el primero se exponen aspectos esenciales de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en la educación superior, con énfasis en las características del aprendizaje activo y la enseñanza con ayuda de la tecnología. En el segundo se detallan múltiples estrategias de enseñanza y aprendizaje. En el tercero se describen los métodos de enseñanza en la educación superior, metodologías de educación virtual y metodologías innovadoras para potenciar el aprendizaje activo. Finalmente, se analizan dos casos prácticos sobre la aplicación de metodologías innovadoras y sus resultados en la Universidad Técnica de Babahoyo.

Depth of knowledge (DOK) has become a priority for many schools. But if your understanding of DOK is a little cloudy, you're not alone. This resource is your one-stop-shop for learning what it is, who it's for, and how to use and sustain it. Ultimately, you will discover how to plan and provide learning experiences that are academically rigorous, socially and emotionally supportive, and student responsive. Learn how DOK is a different, deeper way of approaching teaching and learning. Explore the different DOK levels and how they relate to instruction. Understand DOK's relationship with standards and assessment. Designate correct levels based on learning needs. Acquire strategies for helping students engage with DOK on a deeper level. Contents: Introduction: What Depth of Knowledge Is Not Chapter 1: What Exactly Is Depth of Knowledge? Chapter 2: What Are DOK Teaching and Learning Experiences? Chapter 3: How to Teach and Learn for Depth of Knowledge Chapter 4: How to Use Webb's DOK Levels as a Multi-Tiered System of Support Chapter 5: How to Deconstruct Learning Intentions for Depth of Knowledge Chapter 6: How to Designate the Depth of Knowledge Level Demanded Chapter 7: How to Construct DOK Learning Targets and Success Criteria Chapter 8: How to Ask and Address Good Questions for Depth of Knowledge Chapter 9: Let's Make a DOK! Conclusion References and Resources Index

Argumentieren und Vergleichen sind zentrale Handlungen im Unterricht aller Fächer, die dazu dienen, tiefgreifende Verständnis- und Bewertungsprozesse bei den Schülerinnen und Schüler anzuregen. Der Band gibt einen Einblick in den aktuellen fachdidaktischen Forschungsstand zum Argumentieren und Vergleichen und möchte zur Diskussion über den Zusammenhang zwischen diesen beiden Handlungen im Unterricht anregen. Es werden fachdidaktische Konzeptualisierungen des Argumentierens und des Vergleichens vorgestellt und empirische Ergebnisse zu den Argumentations- und Vergleichskompetenzen der Schülerinnen und Schüler präsentiert.

This book provides examples of how K-12 teachers and other instructors improve their instruction. Their stories illustrate that they do not follow the tenets of the social science improvement paradigm, which was proposed by education professors in the 1950s and has been promoted by policymakers since the 1970s. Instead, these stories illustrate that teachers improve instruction by bringing the six virtues of the educated person to their dealings with students. In other words, their stories illustrate an aesthetic improvement paradigm.

Dieses E-Book enthält komplexe Grafiken und Tabellen, welche nur auf E-Readern gut lesbar sind, auf denen sich Bilder vergrössern lassen. AVIVA, das heisst Ankommen und Einstimmen, Vorwissen aktivieren, Informieren, Verarbeiten, Auswerten. In dieser Ausgabe werden die wesentlichen Inhalte des viel beachteten Unterrichtsmodells kompakt dargestellt und um vier aktuelle Themen pädagogisch-didaktischen Handelns ergänzt: Klassenführung, problembasiertes Lernen, Blended Learning und Prüfen.

Within the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we are living in a technologically advanced society, and students and teacher educators need to be adequately prepared to succeed within this progressive society. Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century: Embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an edited volume that situates teaching and learning for the 21st century within diverse contexts globally so that teacher educators could make sense of their professional knowledge, curriculum, classroom contexts and diverse students. This book intends to frame and explore the different responsive and innovative pedagogies that are used for embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Additionally, it aims to clarify some key concepts (for example blended learning, coding, digital, E-Learning, Internet, M-Learning, simulation and tools) in addition to other issues that surround teaching and learning for the 21st century. The book also exemplifies authentic case studies located within global contexts focusing on: the 21st-century curriculum, the 21st-century classroom environment, teachers in the 21st century and students in the 21st century. Contributors from around the world (Australia, Indonesia, Mauritius, South Africa, Tanzania and the United States of America) share their innovations in education by interrogating research experiences and examples of good practice.

In RETURN ON INVESTMENT AND LEARNING ANALTYICS, the authors describe and evaluate different models or approaches to ROI and the complexities of this type of evaluation. The ebook also looks at the concept of learning analytics and the different analytics that can be used by L&D professionals. It concludes with a discussion of Big Data and its application to L&D, as well as the issues that organisations should consider when implementing both ROI and L&D data analytics.

DESIGNING CLASSROOM, DIGITAL, BLENDED AND FLIPPED LEARNING SOLUTIONS introduces the concept of learning design, specifically in the context of classroom, digital, blended and flipped learning solutions, and the key stages of the learning design process. The ebook considers the purchase or design decision as a key outcome of the learning needs analysis process, followed by a discussion of four learning design models and their key components. The authors provide a detailed discussion and evaluation of the development of learning objectives and how these help the development of learning content. The initial components of the ebook focus on the design of classroom learning; however, the authors then address the design of digital, blended and flipped learning solutions and explain the learning design decision associated with each type of design content.

Dans ce manuel, les trois auteures, formatrices d'enseignants, conjuguent leur expertise pour examiner de quelle manière les neurosciences peuvent éclairer l'apprentissage et soutenir l'élaboration de stratégies pédagogiques et orthopédagogiques adaptées. Elles proposent des réponses ou, mieux dit, des hypothèses de travail aux questions que se posent formateurs et enseignants dans l'exercice de leur métier. À cette fin, ce livre, dont le lecteur est le héros, offre à tout moment la latitude de choisir où se rendre. Si le lecteur souhaite examiner sa pratique en posture « méta », il sera intéressé par le profil apprenant présenté dans la première partie. S'il se demande ce qu'il doit comprendre quand l'autre ne comprend pas, la deuxième partie lui offrira de nombreuses pistes. S'il cherche quelle approche privilégier en individuel ou en collectif, il lira les coins de l'intervention. S'il veut savoir comment les neurosciences aident à comprendre pourquoi certaines stratégies marchent mieux que d'autres, il lira les coins de la réflexion. Enfin, s'il se demande comment raconter le fonctionnement du cerveau à ses élèves, il choisira les coins de l'expérimentation. Ce livre s'adresse à tout enseignant qui souhaite retrouver le plaisir d'exercer ce métier impossible, comme Freud se plaisait à le qualifier. Il s'adresse aussi à tout formateur d'enseignants qui souhaite instaurer une culture enseignante fondée sur le plaisir d'apprendre à apprendre toute la vie.

En la sección I de este libro, denominada “Metodologías innovadoras y prácticas educativas” se presentan una serie de experiencias basadas en nuevos modelos de enseñanza y aprendizaje como el modelo Flipped classroom, así como, en diferentes metodologías activas, como el Aprendizaje basado en Proyectos, Aprendizaje Servicio, Desing Thinking, Aprendizaje basado en juegos, Gamificación, Aprendizaje colaborativo y cooperativo, muchas de ellas impulsadas por las tecnologías, mostrando a otros docentes el posible camino a seguir en la mejora e innovación en la docencia.En la sección II, “Enseñanza, aprendizaje e investigación con tecnologías emergentes”, se recogen experiencias didácticas desarrolladas en diferentes niveles educativos, en las que se incorporan tecnologías emergentes (simuladores, realidad aumentada, 3D, robótica, APP lúdico-educativas, etc.), que ofrecen la posibilidad de una educación más personalizada. La utilización de estas tecnologías pretende tener un impacto no solo en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje sino también en la investigación creativa en educación.En la sección III, “Innovación docente, metodologías y prácticas educativas en las Ciencias Experimentales y Enseñanzas Técnicas”, se presentan nuevas tendencias de educación en las carreras técnicas, la importancia de la enseñanza de sistemas BIM en el ámbito universitario, las diferentes metodologías docentes en enseñanzas técnicas, estudios sobre el rendimiento y/o abandono en ingenierías/arquitectura; todo ello apoyado de diferentes líneas de investigación docente (Aula Invertida, Gamificación, Aprendizaje basado en Retos (Design Thinking), Aprendizaje basado en Investigación y Colaboración virtual).Finalmente, en la sección IV, denominada “Competencias profesionales en educación”, se exponen diferentes iniciativas, propuestas y reflexiones que abordan como eje vertebrador la necesidad de tener una amplia gama de competencias profesionales para el ejercicio de la función docente en diferentes áreas y disciplinas.

Systemische Beratung und Therapie gehören zu den Standards vieler Handlungsfelder. Aber gibt es auch eine systemische Lehre? Systemische Ansätze spielen mittlerweile auch an Hochschulen zunehmend eine Rolle. Daraus könnte der Eindruck entstehen, dass sie hier nicht nur als Lehr- und Lerninhalte präsent sind, sondern sich auch die Art und Weise, wie gelehrt wird, verändert. In diesem Sammelband setzen sich Hochschullehrende, die über eine systemische Qualifikation in Beratung, Coaching, Supervision, Therapie oder Organisationsentwicklung verfügen, und ihre Studierenden mit Fragen nach einer systemischen Lehre auseinander. Mit Beiträgen von Robert Baum, Maria Borcsa, Barbara Bräutigam, Christine Dathe, Thorid Garbe, Andrea Goll-Kopka, Julia Hille, Rebecca Hilzinger, Marc Höcker, Jenny Kipper, Holger Lindemann, Monika Ludwig, Eva Maria Lohner, Claude-Hélène Mayer, Kira Nierobisch, Christian Paulick, Kersten Reich, Sophia Richter, Dirk Rohr, Günter Schiepek, Diana Skyba, Heike Stammer, Clara Stein, Veronika Strittmatter-Haubold, Silke Trumpa, Marc Weinhardt, Mara Welz und Mirjana Zipperle.

This book provides an accessible, evidence-based account of how teacher noticing, the process of attending to, interpreting and acting on events which occur during engagement with learners, can be examined in contexts of language teacher education and highlights the importance of reflective practice for professional development. Central to the work is an innovative mixed-methods study of task-based interaction which was undertaken with pre-service English language teachers in Japan. Through close analyses of task interaction coupled with recall data, it illustrates the ways in which pre-service teachers noticed their student partners'use of embodied and linguistic resources. This focus on what teachers attend to, how they interpret it, and their subsequent decisions has multiple implications for language learning and teacher development. It demonstrates the value of teacher noticing for developing rapport, supporting pupils'language acquisition, enhancing participation, fostering reflection and guiding observation, a central feature of language teachers'career advancement.

The goal of teaching online is fundamentally the same as teaching face-to-face: facilitating the learning of all students to the greatest extent possible.This book differs from other books on online teaching in that, in the process of offering guidance on course design and planning, developing outcomes and appropriate engaging activities, managing the workload and assessment, the authors pay explicit attention throughout to the distinct and diverse needs of students and offer effective strategies to accommodate them in a comprehensive and inclusive way by using the principles of Universal Design for Learning. By following those principles from the outset when planning a course, all students will benefit, and most particularly those whom the research shows have the greatest achievement gaps when taking online courses -- males, first generation and low income students, those from underrepresented minority groups, the academically underprepared, students with disabilities, and those with limited online access or lacking readiness for online learning. Beyond good planning and design, Kelly and Zakrajsek offer ideas for creating inclusive course environments and activities, such as using culturally appropriate content and making it accessible in multiple formats. They also share methods to foster faculty-learner interaction and increase personal connections with students, and among students, through group activities or learning communities, which are so critical to motivation and success.Faculty new to online teaching as well as more experienced readers will find a wealth of practical guidance on developing and honing both fully online and blended courses and, as importantly, a wealth of proven ideas to help the new generation of students with diverse needs to succeed.

El libro aporta un programa de trabajo que pretende ser una herramienta práctica para mejorar la dinámica del aula y el propio proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Opera a través del uso de actividades que dan protagonismo al movimiento y ponen en valor la dimensión corporal, física y motriz de la persona a través de lo que se ha dado en llamar: propuestas. Estas se plantean en el propio espacio del aula –donde lo habitual es permanecer inmóvil en el pupitre– y por tanto rompen con esa visión que se tiene del aula como escenario de inmovilidad. Los pasillos entre pupitres, los espacios circundantes a puertas, ventanas, fondo de aula y mesa del profesor, se convierten en espacios útiles que enmarcan las propuestas motrices como descansos activos que aparecen de manera intermitente. El programa se fundamenta en nociones de Neuroeducación poniendo en valor la necesidad de reactivar la atención tras prolongados periodos de concentración implicados en las tareas escolares. Se aporta una categorización de las propuestas mediante diferentes Áreas: Social, de Aprendizaje, de Gestión de Aula, de Relajación y de Funciones ejecutivas. Cada una de esta Áreas se orienta a un objetivo relacionado con los beneficios de la intervención motriz en el aula. Este programa, construido en torno a ejemplos prácticos de actividades, se fundamenta en la experiencia de docentes que lo han experimentado inicialmente en primera persona, y posteriormente lo han llevado a sus aulas para aportarles esta vivencia a sus propios alumnos. La posibilidad de dar alegría al aula, de mejorar las relaciones sociales y los aprendizajes, dinamizando lo que en ella acontece y ofreciendo respiros que reactiven la atención, es lo que se encontrará el lector en estas páginas. En ellas los educadores de cualquier nivel educativo, e incluso de personas adultas, pueden encontrar una herramienta sumamente útil y de fácil implementación para el aprendizaje.

This text both challenges and traces the development of a culture of regulation, standardization, performativity, and governmentality evident in Anglophone teaching practice and education.Framed by a brief history of teacher education research and policy in North America over the last six decades, the text argues that the instrumentalization of curriculum and pedagogy has robbed teachers of their pedagogical soul, passion, and purpose. Using a conceptual model, Grimmett forges a pathway for teachers to adopt a soulful way forward in professional practice, individually and collectively enhancing autonomy over programs, and protecting the public trust placed in them as educators.This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in teachers and teacher education, educational policy and politics, and curriculum thinking and enactment more broadly. Those specifically interested in pedagogy, educational change and reform, and the philosophy of education will also benefit from this book.

Empowering Teachers through Environmental and Sustainability Education draws inspiration from an empirical study exploring early career teachers'attempts at enacting Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in their everyday teaching practices. It showcases how a confluence of personal, professional and environmental identities supports implementation of ESE. Additionally, this book discusses key concepts and issues surrounding ESE and the ways in which teachers may claim agency and power to create change in their classroom practices. Drawing from theoretical perspectives, such as Bourdieu's ‘thinking tools'habitus and capital, theories of identity, and Foucault's concept of power and knowledge relations, this book explores how teachers negotiate policies, curriculum and institutional norms to further theoretical and practical understanding of ESE. The use of personal narratives offers new insights into teachers'agency in creating localised yet powerful change through small and meaningful actions. The purpose of this book, therefore, is to explore ways in which meaningful change can be made in educational settings through these small agentive and yet empowering steps. This book reveals that teachers can enact agency and navigate the power structures that exist within educational settings in order to make ESE meaningful within their classrooms.

As part of the successful and popular Retrieval Practice collection by Kate Jones, this practical resource guide is the go-to guide for a wide range of retrieval practice tasks that teachers can use in their classrooms. There are over fifty evidence-informed and creative, tried and tested, classroom resources and strategies to support retrieval practice. These include starter tasks, tasks to support literacy and revision as well as a range of recommended online quizzing tools. For each resource, there is an explanation with top tips and visuals for easy implementation. All of the resources provided aim to be low effort, high impact. Low effort for the teacher in terms of workload but high impact on student learning. Regardless of the subject or age range taught there are plenty of takeaways for every teacher – a handy retrieval resource guide for every teacher and every classroom.

Providing a much-needed critical synthesis of research on teaching vocabulary and grammar to students of a second or foreign language, this book puts the research into perspective in order to distil recommendations for language teaching. Boers evaluates a comprehensive range of both well-established and lesser-known research strands and classroom practices to draw out the most effective instructional approaches to teaching words, multiword expressions and grammar patterns. Chapters discuss learning as a by-product of communicative activities, language-focused instruction, diverse types of exercises, mnemonic techniques and more, with a view to building bridges between the available research on such instructional approaches and how they are commonly implemented in actual language courses and textbooks. This book helps teachers make research-informed decisions regarding their instructional approaches to words, phrases and patterns, and direct researchers to specific areas in need of further inquiry. Boers not only demonstrates how research findings can inform effective teaching, but also calls for a deeper appreciation on the part of researchers of the realities of the teaching profession, making this a worthwhile text for preservice teachers, teacher educators, graduate students and scholars.

Van leertheorie naar onderwijspraktijk Van leertheorie naar onderwijspraktijk relateert inzichten uit verschillende leertheorieën aan het onderwijzen en leren van leerlingen. Vragen als: ‘Hoe kan ik leerlingen een bepaald gedrag aan- of afleren?'of: ‘Hoe kunnen leerlingen het best begrippen leren of feiten onthouden?'worden op heldere wijze beantwoord. De antwoorden worden theoretisch onderbouwd en geïllustreerd met voorbeelden uit de praktijk van het basisonderwijs en het voortgezet onderwijs. Naast uiteenzettingen van de belangrijkste leertheoretische principes schenken de auteurs aandacht aan de rol van het geheugen tijdens het leerproces en aan probleemoplossend handelen, omdat dit in alle professionele contexten gevraagd wordt en gezien kan worden als een van de belangrijkste vaardigheden in de huidige kennismaatschappij. Veel scholen en regionale opleidingscentra kiezen tegenwoordig concepten als competentieleren, werkplekleren, probleemoplossend leren, onderzoekend leren, samenwerkend leren en leren als het construeren van kennis als uitgangspunt voor de vormgeving van hun onderwijs. Met behulp van dit boek zijn deze concepten beter te begrijpen. Deze druk is geactualiseerd ten opzichte van de vorige druk. Nieuwe inzichten en verwijzingen zorgen ervoor dat het boek past bij het huidige onderwijs, waarin steeds meer gebruik wordt gemaakt van digitale leermiddelen en van internet als inspiratiebron.

Educators need to empower learners to be prepared for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, to be thinkers with the ability to pioneer the future. This book cracks teaching and learning myths that led to learners being perceived as knowledge duplicators instead of being knowledge creators. Thinking tools move the focus of learning from mastering content to critical thinking. This requires the critical thinking toolkit, which is the mothership of all thinking. It engages learners'forever-wandering minds with the learning task at hand, which is the substitute for the traditional expectations of “paying attention” and “memorising”. When employing thinking tools, learners become thinking engineers—taking ownership of what they must discover, create or solve.Within this paradigm of teaching, teachers directly engage with learners'brains, which goes beyond learner-centred teaching and defining learning as visual, auditory or kinaesthetic. The book is based on examples of thinking tools sessions.