Art teachers introduce students – both young and old – to the beauty, history, and significance of art. They encourage creativity and exploration through a variety of media (crayons, paint, clay, and photographs are just a few), while they instruct in the practical principles of technique and discipline. Art teachers enjoy the best of two worlds – they are able to combine their love of art with their desire to share that knowledge with others.
H.G. Widdowson has played an important and pioneering role in the development of communication language theory. This book develops a rational approach to the teaching of language as communication based on a careful consideration of the nature of language and of the language user's activities. It provides a lucid guide through a subject which is often confused and misrepresented, while providing a stimulus to all language teachers to investigate the ideas that inform their own practices.
This book makes techniques widely used in the field of discourse analysis accessible to a broad audience and illustrates their application in the study of classroom talk. Separate chapters illustrate the analysis of interactional resources such as turn taking, participation frameworks, narrative and contextualization cues, modeling forms of discourse analysis teachers may practice in their classrooms.
Students throughout the world fear and dread solving word problems. As students’ reading skills have declined, so have their abilities to solve word problems. This book offers solutions to the most standard and non-standard word problems available. It follows the suggestions of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and incorporates the types of problems usually found on standardized math tests (PSAT, SAT, and others)
Various flashcards sets that may be adopted in ESL teaching classes.
