Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Social Science

This book reports valuable research from across the world that addresses questions on what background and contextual factors are related to achievement in mathematics and sciences. All studies utilized data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) conducted under the auspices of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in 1995, and repeated in 1998.
In many countries researchers have started secondary analysis of the data in search for relationships between contextual factors and achievement. In these...

NLP is very effective in enabling young people to overcome fears, anxieties and limitations, which, in turn, helps them to achieve more in school, learn more effectively and, in life in general, become more fulfilled and wholesome individualsThis highly practical book provides strategies for teachers to use in the classroom to improve their own NLP skills as well as those of their students. Topics include: * Understanding that we only see what we believe is possible * Realising that we create our own experience * Using embedded commands to aid homework

This book provides a blueprint for those interested in teaching from a pluralist perspective, regardless of ideology. It provides educators, policy makers and students with helpful suggestions for implementing pluralism into pedagogy, by offering detailed suggestions and guidelines for incorporating pluralist approaches tailored to specific individual courses. The Handbook for Pluralist Economics Education specifically provides practical suggestions for professors willing to implement pluralism in the classroom and increases the pedagogical influence of pluralist economics while...

Offering a philosophy, methodology, and examples for history instruction that are active, imaginative, and provocative, this text presents a fully developed pedagogy based on problem-solving methods that promote reasoning and judgment and restore a sense of imagination and participation to classroom learning. It is designed to draw readers into the detective process that characterizes the work of professional historians and social scientists ─ sharing raw data, defining terms, building interpretations, and testing competing theories. An inquiry framework drives both the pedagogy and...

This easy-to-use book provides the current resources available that facilitate the fulfillment of national standards for information literacy, social studies, geography, language arts, science, technology, life skills, and character education. Keypal/penpal projects and resources are included to keep your lessons and activities fun as well as personal for students as they explore the world around them. A fully annotated bibliography of print, non-print, and Web sites for the study of the World is included, along with complete purchasing information for each resource.

Includes a wide...