Taking a practical, curriculum-focused approach, this guide for new and experienced distance educators allows them to develop and deliver quality courses and training sessions. Providing practices and examples, and surveying the tools of the trade, this guide covers key issues including instructional design, course craft, adult learning styles and more. Discussing how distance learning enables students of all kinds to earn college and graduate degrees, professional certificates, and a wide range of skills and credentials, this book details the rapidly expanding role of distance learning in higher education and the types of organizations that now offer Web-based training courses.
How can busy teachers successfully manage the complex task of assessing their students' reading comprehension? This invaluable book--the first stand-alone guide on the topic--presents reliable, research-supported guidelines and procedures for K-6 teachers to use in the classroom. Through practical tips and realistic examples, the book demonstrates time-saving ways to implement and adapt a wide range of existing assessments, rather than creating new ones. Also covered: strategies for conducting multiliteracy assessments, using classroom assessment to complement standardized testing and more.
We all know that kids like video games, so why not help them learn course content in these virtual worlds? This guidebook will help teachers (grades 6–12) do exactly that. The authors provide a diverse collection of lively and engaging virtual spaces where students engage in role-based learning. The context might be a gigantic imaginary plant cell, where students learn the role of a biologist, or it might be a shallow valley where they learn to act like a geologist.
Teacher development may be seen as socially constructed. Teachers tend to grow along similar lines, as developmental stage theory suggests, but this growth and development reflect the powerful force of schools as agencies of socialization. So potent is the process of socialization that the effects of teacher preparation tend to be washed out when neophyte teachers enter the school.
Approach any training challenge with these new, fresh and inspired solutions. Make your teaching and their learning fun, fast-paced and functional. This toolkit of 500 tips and techniques is designed for trainers at all levels of experience who enjoy experimenting, discovering and evolving and covers all the important basic, including how to: Have participants introduce themselves, Test for understanding, Add humor, Give feedback, Use questions, Use quotations, Have groups report, and much much more!
