Education

E-learning is still in its infancy. This can be seen both in the limited pedagogical quality and lack of portability of e-learning content, and in the lack of user-friendly tools to exploit the opportunities offered by current technologies. To be successful, e-learning must offer effective and attractive courses and programmes to learners, while at the same time providing a pleasant and effective work environment for staff members who have the task to develop course materials, plan the learning processes, provide tutoring, and asse... read more

Peter Senge, founder and director of the Society for Organisational Learning and senior lecturer at MIT, has found the means of creating a 'learning organisation'. In The Fifth Discipline, he draws the blueprints for an organisation where poeple expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nutured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are contually learning together. The Fifth Discipline fuses these features together into a coherent body of theo... read more

In business, if your team were to share the same vision, direction, and values that you do, how much easier would it be to drive your business forward, and create powerful and favourable impressions on your clients? You and your entire team would be operating as one, moving with confidence and commitment towards a set of common goals. In education, how much more satisfying would your teaching be - both for you and your students - if you were able to: explain ideas more easily, more memorably, and more powerfully? create an environm... read more

Contains practical guidance, empowering ideas and challenging assertions about inclusion, along with strategies for meeting the diverse learning needs of dyslexic pupils in mainstream classes.
Contents: Dyslexia: a difficulty or difference Understanding Dyslexia - Removing the Barriers Creating the feel-good factor Empowerment through learning differences Spelling with a specific difference Learning styles and preferences Learning styles and comfort zones Dyslexia friendly means inclusion friendly Dyslexia and revision Maths... read more

If you've ever thought of home educating your child - this book is for you! Many parents are opting to take their children out of school; choosing to go it alone and home educate them. Currently nearly 7,000 (equivalent to 28 large primary schools) of our children are being educated at home with numbers increasing every year. Antoinette James has been successfully home educating her children for eight years. This is her story. In an easy-to-read and very accessible style, Antoinette offers sound advice and support for parents... read more

This book focuses on what it is like to be a young Maori person in a New Zealand secondary school classroom today. It presents and discusses narratives drawn from the voices of Maori secondary students, their whanau, principals and teachers.Whether you are a student, a parent, a principal or a teacher, this book will help you to examine your own explanations for the educational achievement of Maori students, and begin to develop effective responses to the challenges it raises. The book proposes strategies for teachers to increase t... read more

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This work provides an introduction to a range of ways of analysing language in context. It is accessible in that it assumes no previous knowledge on the reader's part, and guides students through detailed analysis. It also offers a hands-on approach to data analysis. The 24 data examples analysed are drawn from published work by experts in fields of language analysis. The analytic methods are drawn from sociolinguistics, sociocultural approaches, ethnography, multimodal approaches and discourse analysis. Contexts exemplified are dr... read more

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The middle years of schooling are increasingly recognised as a crucial stage in students' lives, one that has significant consequences for ongoing educational success. Teaching Middle Years offers a systematic overview of the philosophy, principles and issues in middle schooling. It includes contributions from academics and school-based practitioners on intellectual and emotional development in early adolescence, pedagogy, curriculum and assessment of middle years students. This edition is revised to reflect the latest research fin... read more

Description : A fully updated edition of this authoritative and widely-used text on managing students' behaviour in primary and secondary schools.; Behaviour management in the classroom and schoolyard is one of the most challenging aspects of teaching. Student Behaviour offers a comprehensive overview of the major theories of behaviour management in primary and secondary schools, illustrated with detailed case studies. Porter outlines how teachers can develop a personal approach to classroom management based on a sound un... read more

Neuroscience tells us that the products of the mind -- thought, emotions, artistic creation -- are the result of the interactions of the biological brain with our senses and the physical world: in short, that thinking and learning are the products of a biological process. This realization, that learning actually alters the brain by changing the number and strength of synapses, offers a powerful foundation for rethinking teaching practice and one's philosophy of teaching. James Zull invites teachers in higher education or any other ... read more

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After three years of planning, Kirkland College opened in 1968 as a small, liberal arts college for women, coordinate to Hamilton College in upstate New York. The author was the first, last and only President. Planners envisioned a female counterpart of Hamilton which could introduce women without distressing alumni, and allow needed curricular expansion. But Kirkland's advisors and administrators wanted innovation. Its openness, inclusiveness and curricular choices affronted many Hamiltonians. When, at last, Kirkland sought furthe... read more

PERFECT FOR NEW TEACHERS AND STUDENT TEACHERS ALIKE! This supplemental book is an excellent tool for students completing internships, observation/participation experiences, field work, student teaching and practicum's in early childhood and elementary school settings. Through a host of techniques that encourage journaling, students are guided to record entries of curriculum ideas and teaching strategies they observe in the field. Sample observations help them get started, and journal forms in the final section teach students how to... read more

This newly revised book is divided into five skill groups: classroom survival skills, friendship-making skills, dealing with feelings, alternatives to aggression, and dealing with stress. Within these skill groups the authors provide strategies for teaching 60 specific prosocial skills, such as asking for help, saying thank you, accepting consequences, using self-control, making a complaint, and dealing with group pressure. Appendices contain program evaluation forms and a 42-page annotated bibliography of Skillstreaming resear... read more