Download or read book Conversations with Great Teachers written by Bill Smoot and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Studs Terkel's Working, Bill Smoot interviews master teachers in fields ranging from K--12 and higher education to the arts, trades and professions, sports, and politics. The result suggests a dinner party where the most fascinating teachers in America discuss their various styles as well as what makes their work meaningful to them. What is it that passes between the best teachers and their students to make learning happen? What are the keys to teaching the joys of literature, shooting a basketball, alligator wrestling, or how to survive one's first year in the U.S. Congress? Smoot's insightful questions elicit thought-provoking reflections about teaching as a calling and its aims, frustrations, and satisfactions.
Download or read book Concerning Certain Great Teachers of the English Language An Inaugural Lecture Etc written by Raymond Wilson CHAMBERS and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What English Language Teachers Need to Know Volume I written by Denise E. Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for pre-service teachers and teachers new to the field of ELT, What English Teachers Need to Know Volumes I, II, and III are companion textbooks organized around the key question: What do teachers need to know and be able to do in order for their students to learn English? In the Second Edition of Volume I, Murray and Christison return to this essential question and call attention to emerging trends and challenges affecting the contemporary classroom. Addressing new skills and strategies that EFL teachers require to meet the needs of their shifting student populations who are impacted by changing demographics, digital environments, and globalization, this book, which is grounded in current research, offers a strong emphasis on practical applications for classroom teaching. This updated and expanded Second Edition features: a new chapter on technology in TESOL new and updated classroom examples throughout discussions of how teachers can prepare for contemporary challenges, such as population mobility and globalization The comprehensive texts work for teachers across different contexts—where English is the dominant language, an official language, or a foreign language; for different levels—elementary/primary, secondary, university, or adult education; and for different learning purposes—general English, workplace English, English for academic purposes, or English for specific purposes.
Download or read book Concerning Certain Great Teachers of the English Language an Inaugural Lecture Delivered in University College written by Raymond Wilson Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English and Englishness written by Brian Doyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. This volume is part of the New Accent series looking at English and popular culture, language, policy, fiction and democracy. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change; to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study.
Download or read book Great Teachers written by Pope Benedict XVI and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To renew the Church in every age, God raises up saints who themselves have been renewed by God and are in constant contact with God." -- Pope Benedict XVI Discover the greatest teachers of the Faith as Pope Benedict XVI highlights their essential role during a time of scandal and strife in the Church. Focusing specifically on the thirteenth-century founding of the Franciscans by St. Francis of Assisi and the Dominicans by St. Dominic Guzman, the pope said personal holiness led the two saints to preach -- and to help actualize -- a return to Gospel poverty, a deeper unity with the Church, and a new movement of evangelization, including within the European universities that were blossoming at the time. Their example continues to be relevant today as we struggle with a culture that "focuses more on having than on being," and look to emulate those holy people who chose to live very simply.
Download or read book The Knowledge Gap written by Natalie Wexler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware. But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.
Download or read book Great Teachers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Education Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additional written evidence is contained in Volume 3, available on the Committee website at www. parliament.uk/education-committee
Download or read book What English Language Teachers Need to Know Volume III written by MaryAnn Christison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What English Teachers Need to Know, a set of companion texts designed for pre-service teachers and teachers new to the field of ELT, addresses the key question: What do English language teachers need to know and be able to do in order for their students to learn English? These texts work for teachers across different contexts (countries where English is the dominant language, one of the official languages, or taught as a foreign language); different levels (elementary/primary, secondary, college or university, or adult education); and different learning purposes (general English, workplace English, English for academic purposes, or English for specific purposes). Volume I, on understanding learning, provides the background information that teachers need to know and be able to use in their classroom. Volume II, on facilitating learning, covers the three main facets of teaching: planning, instructing, and assessing. Volume III, on designing curriculum, covers the contexts for, processes in, and types of ELT curricula—linguistic based, content-based, learner-centered, and learning-centered. Throughout the three volumes, the focus is on outcomes, that is, student learning. Features • Situated in current research in the field of English language teaching and other disciplines that inform it • Sample data, including classroom vignettes • Three kinds of activities/tasks: Reflect, Explore, and Expand
Download or read book About Language written by Scott Thornbury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book raises the issue of what a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively. It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system.
Download or read book The Preparation of Teachers of English as an Additional Language Around the World written by Nihat Polat and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a critical gap in a neglected area in current educational research: international teacher education. The chapters focus on the preparation of teachers of English as an additional language (EAL) in established teacher education programs in 11 countries.
Download or read book The Victorians and English Dialect written by Matthew Townend and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorians and English Dialect tells the story of the Victorians' discovery of English dialect, and of the revaluation of local language that was brought about by the new, historical philology of the nineteenth century. Regional dialects came to be seen not as corrupt or pernicious, but rather as venerable and precious. The book examines the work of the ground-breaking collectors of the 1840s and 1850s, who first alerted their contemporaries to the importance of local dialect - and also to the perils that threatened it with extinction. Tracing the connection between dialect and literature, in the flourishing of dialect poetry and the foregrounding of regional voices in Victorian fiction. It goes on to explain how the antiquity of regional dialects cast light on the national past - the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings - and how dialect study was also at the heart of the discovery of local folklore and oral culture: old words, old customs, old beliefs. And it tells the story of the three great monuments of Victorian dialect study that marked the apogee of regional philology: the 80 publications of the English Dialect Society (1873-96), an organization run by a committee of journalists and local historians in Manchester; the nationwide survey of The Existing Phonology of English Dialects (1889), which listened in on local speech in market squares and third-class railway carriages; and the multi-volume English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905), which collected all the previous labours together, and made an enduring record of Victorian dialect.
Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Download or read book A Note on the Teaching of English Language and Literature written by R. B. McKerrow and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Note on the Teaching of 'English Language and Literature': With Some Suggestions But does it afford such a training? I venture to say that at present it does not. It is, I think, by no means an unusual feeling among at any rate the younger section of those who are engaged in the teaching of English subjects that all is not well with the study. It does not seem as a rule to attract the best students, and in the general opinion does not rank with most of the other divisions of the curriculum. Indeed, in some quarters it seems to be looked on almost as a sham kind of learning, an amateurish sort of business altogether, for the teaching of which real scholarship is of less importance than a good presence and uent diction. And yet considering what the subject is: that it deals, or should deal, with the very ower of our national life, taking account of almost all the best work of the best minds of the modern world; one might naturally suppose that hardly any other subject could surpass it in interest and real importance. Again, some teachers do not feel that the results of the English course are satisfactory. The students, even granting that they are not the best, do not seem to have benefited from the time which they have spent over the study as they should have done. Their knowledge is often scrappy, they seem unable to envisage their subject from any point of view but that of the text-books in which they have studied it; they show little or no power of independent judgement, and they are often singularly blind and, indeed, indifferent to the merits of whatever does not happen to have fallen within the scope of their particular studies. With some of them, indeed, the course of literature seems to do little else but develop a power of uent and uncritical laudation, with the help of innumerable cliches, of the particular objects of their teacher's admiration. Lastly, some of the teachers, though perhaps only a few, are not entirely satisfied with themselves and their own grasp of their subject. Some of them feel that they have not the general knowledge of the language and literature which they ought to have, and are obliged to have recourse to specializing in some particular small sub-section or period, and frankly confessing that they are not much interested in the rest. They do the best they can, often complaining of the inadequacy of the methods by which they themselves were taught, but most of them continue to follow these very methods in their own teaching. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Lessons from Good Language Teachers written by Carol Griffiths and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how good language teachers work, drawing on teacher training theory as well as many examples and case studies.
Download or read book What Teachers Need to Know About Language written by Carolyn Temple Adger and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising enrollments of students for whom English is not a first language mean that every teacher – whether teaching kindergarten or high school algebra – is a language teacher. This book explains what teachers need to know about language in order to be more effective in the classroom, and it shows how teacher education might help them gain that knowledge. It focuses especially on features of academic English and gives examples of the many aspects of teaching and learning to which language is key. This second edition reflects the now greatly expanded knowledge base about academic language and classroom discourse, and highlights the pivotal role that language plays in learning and schooling. The volume will be of interest to teachers, teacher educators, professional development specialists, administrators, and all those interested in helping to ensure student success in the classroom and beyond.
Download or read book Reading Reconsidered written by Doug Lemov and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TEACH YOUR STUDENTS TO READ WITH PRECISION AND INSIGHT The world we are preparing our students to succeed in is one bound together by words and phrases. Our students learn their literature, history, math, science, or art via a firm foundation of strong reading skills. When we teach students to read with precision, rigor, and insight, we are truly handing over the key to the kingdom. Of all the subjects we teach reading is first among equals. Grounded in advice from effective classrooms nationwide, enhanced with more than 40 video clips, Reading Reconsidered takes you into the trenches with actionable guidance from real-life educators and instructional champions. The authors address the anxiety-inducing world of Common Core State Standards, distilling from those standards four key ideas that help hone teaching practices both generally and in preparation for assessments. This 'Core of the Core' comprises the first half of the book and instructs educators on how to teach students to: read harder texts, 'closely read' texts rigorously and intentionally, read nonfiction more effectively, and write more effectively in direct response to texts. The second half of Reading Reconsidered reinforces these principles, coupling them with the 'fundamentals' of reading instruction—a host of techniques and subject specific tools to reconsider how teachers approach such essential topics as vocabulary, interactive reading, and student autonomy. Reading Reconsidered breaks an overly broad issue into clear, easy-to-implement approaches. Filled with practical tools, including: 44 video clips of exemplar teachers demonstrating the techniques and principles in their classrooms (note: for online access of this content, please visit my.teachlikeachampion.com) Recommended book lists Downloadable tips and templates on key topics like reading nonfiction, vocabulary instruction, and literary terms and definitions. Reading Reconsidered provides the framework necessary for teachers to ensure that students forge futures as lifelong readers.
