How to Teach Poetry Writing is a practical, activity-based book of writing workshops for teachers of junior classes. Each workshop will help you to build enjoyable activities for pupils, to help them to develop practical writing skills. Workshops include redrafting and revising activities, poetry writing frames, poems from a range of cultures, traditional and contemporary poems, poems by children, and lots of writing advice and plenty of fun. Each workshop has been trailed in classrooms across the country, and is linked to NLS objectives.
The book covers the essentials of classroom management, teaching vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, reading, writing and pronunciation. The book is ideal for people enrolling on, or following a CELTA course, a Trinity College London certificate in TESOL course or any other pre-service EFL course.
PreSchool-Grade 2 An endearing white dog with black spots loves chasing leaves and chewing sticks. He also loves napping under his favorite tree. Then his sleep is interrupted one spring day by a tiny yellow bird that designates him her first student. Rocket wants no part of her lessons, but the bird is determined to teach him to read. She returns each day, hangs an alphabet banner from the trees, and gushes, Ah, the wondrous, mighty, gorgeous alphabet.
This course is designed to teach you those concepts in a way that is accessible and immediately useful. Professor Schwartz’s varied and successful background in business, investment banking, and academics includes being the recipient of Boston University’s Metcalf Prize for distinguished teaching, making him an ideal choice to teach this course. His lectures are illustrated with computer-generated graphics to display financial statements, definitions, formulas, and equations. One concept at a time, he clearly explains many of the crucial aspects of the world of business and how they are connected to one another.
The Smart Swarm - How Understanding Flocks, Schools and Colonies Can Make us Better at Communicating, Decision Making and Getting Things Done
In a world where speed and flexibility are valued more than ever, leaders from the corporate boardroom to the military are looking for answers from seemingly unlikely experts -- the ones in the grass, in the air, in the lakes, and in the woods. In this innovative book, veteran National Geographic editor Peter Miller explains the basic principles of smart swarms -- self-organization, diversity of knowledge, indirect collaboration, and adaptive mimicking -- to show how swarm species such as ants, bees, and fish can teach us to tackle some of the most complex conundrums in business, politics, and technology.
