Thứ Ba, 19 tháng 9, 2017

What Expert Teachers Do - Enhancing Professional Knowledge for Classroom Practice

Drawing on the best research on pedagogy, he outlines the crucial principles of teaching and learning, and shows how they are translated into practice using real classroom examples.
 
 
He emphasises that teaching procedures need to be part of an integrated approach, so that they are genuinely meaningful and result in learning. Throughout, he shows how teachers can engage their students in ways that create a real ‘need to know’, and a desire to become active learners.
 
 
What Expert Teachers Do is for teachers who want to become really accomplished practitioners.
 

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Vocabulary Expansion - EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY

This book gives you different words that you can use when you are writing or speaking about three important topics - those of communication, emotions and movement. Each section takes a 'core' word that you probably know well and gives you the most useful synonyms for it, as well as related words with a different part of speech.
 
 
There are also notes that highlight some differences of register, grammar, and collocation. Some of the words are shown together with their opposites, e.g. satisfied and dissatisfied. 


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The Ultimate Business Dictionary - Defining the World of Work

The Ultimate Business Dictionary provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of key business terminology and concepts available.
 
 
Containing definitions of more than six thousand entries, The Ultimate Business Dictionary reflects the globalization of English as the lingua franca of business, and offers several unique features, including translations of all terms into Chinese, Japanese, French, German, and Spanish (Castilian and Latin American); abbreviations, acronyms, and slang; concise biographical profiles of key business thinkers and leaders; listings of international stock exchanges and trade organizations; and a section on finance and accounting terms and ratios.

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The New Oxford Picture Dictionary Teachers Guide by Irene Frankel

The New Picture Dictionary and its components provide a complete, four-skills language development program.
 
 
The program is:
* Practical - a wide range of topics introduce new words in their most common context.
* Easy to use - vocabulary items are presented without ambiguity or the need for translation.
* Versatile - the Dictionary itself and its components have unlimited applications.
* Flexible - the Dictionary can be used alone or with its components.
 


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The Day My Baby Was Born by LaNita McMeekan-Cates

Inspiring Stories for Moms-to-Be | Real moms share their intimate birth stories
 
 
Share in the beauty and wonder of the birth experience with this touching collection of true stories from 60 real moms, describing in their own words how their newborns came into the world. Their intimate recollections capture the remarkable range of birth experiences and remind us of the extraordinary bond that forms from this moment on.
 
 
A great shower gift or self-purchase for expectant mothers that shares the amazing childbirth experience.
Beautifully packaged to reflect the warmth, wonder, and mystery of the childbirth experience, The Day My Baby Was Born presents true stories from a wide variety of women about the different ways their child came into the world and the incredible bond this moment forms among all mothers.
 
 
The Day My Baby Was Born gives moms-to-be a full sense of what to expect, through real stories from real people - the voices of friends, sisters, neighbors, and others sharing their own thoughts on the incredible moment.

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Teaching Reading and Viewing Guide for Years 1-3 - Queensland Studies Authority October 2010

This booklet provides teachers with a collection of strategies and activities for developing students' comprehension.
 
 
It is a companion document to the series of guides on teaching reading and viewing.
While the strategies are listed alphabetically in the table of contents, by using the matrix teachers can readily identify those that are suitable for their students' Year level. 
 
 
The strategies and activities are also categorised according to the stages of the reading process that they support:
•      activating, expanding and refining prior knowledge
•      retrieving information
•      interpreting texts
•      reflecting and creating personal knowledge.
 

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Teaching Reading and Viewing Guide for Years 4-7 - Queensland Studies Authority October 2010

This booklet provides teachers with a collection of strategies and activities for developing students' comprehension.
 
 
It is a companion document to the series of guides on teaching reading and viewing.
While the strategies are listed alphabetically in the table of contents, by using the matrix teachers can readily identify those that are suitable for their students' Year level. 
 
 
The strategies and activities are also categorised according to the stages of the reading process that they support:
•      activating, expanding and refining prior knowledge
•      retrieving information
•      interpreting texts
•      reflecting and creating personal knowledge.


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Teaching Reading and Viewing Comprehension Strategies and Activities for Years 1-9 - Queensland Studies Authority September 2010

This booklet provides teachers with a collection of strategies and activities for developing students' comprehension.
 
 
It is a companion document to the series of guides on teaching reading and viewing.
While the strategies are listed alphabetically in the table of contents, by using the matrix teachers can readily identify those that are suitable for their students' Year level.
 
 
The strategies and activities are also categorised according to the stages of the reading process that they support:
•      activating, expanding and refining prior knowledge
•      retrieving information
•      interpreting texts
•      reflecting and creating personal knowledge.


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Rewrite Right Your Guide to Perfectly Polished Prose 2nd Edition

This practical guide describes in clear, direct language how to effectively rewrite a report, letter, essay, or article, so that writers of all levels can improve the quality of their work and harness the power of language.


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Responsive Literacy Coaching - Tools for Creating and Sustaining Purposeful Change

The range of tools offered in the text invite customization based on the reader's specific instructional context. This framework empowers literacy coaches and teachers through conversation, sustained engagement, and reflective analysis.
 
 
Dozier argues that at its best, literacy coaching is responsive, collegial, thoughtful, thought-provoking, deliberate, reflective, and transferable. In this book she invites readers to enter into a coaching dialogue, through:
- vignettes that bring coaching interactions to life;
- prompts to engage both teachers and students;
- occasions for collaborative reflection;
- frequently-asked questions.
 

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Preschool - Ultimate Skill Builder

These pages include practice for early reading skills.
 
 
The activities are geared toward recognizing sight words, drawing conclusions, and making predictions.


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Nexus English for Advanced Learners Teachers Book

Nexus is a general course for past First certificate to Proficiency students.
 
 
Teacher's book includes a detailed map of the course and its language coverage, unit by unit teaching notes and answer keys
 

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Love as Pedagogy by Tim Loreman

This text begins with a discussion of what love is, what pedagogy is, and how the two are inseparable in an effective educational context. It then moves on to address ethical considerations. Drawing on discourse on love found in psychology, philosophy, and religion the text examines various aspects of love and their relationship to effective teaching and learning including kindness and empathy, intimacy and bonding, sacrifice and forgiveness, and acceptance and community.


This book concludes with a photographic case study of loving pedagogy in action and practical suggestions for educators wishing to adopt the approach. This text is suitable for educators at all levels, especially those in early childhood, elementary, and secondary school settings along with students in education and related programs at universities and colleges.

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Legal English by Małgorzata Cyganik - Warsaw 2011

English is the dominant language of the international legal practice and corporate business world.


Its importance cannot be underestimated and that is why the need to learn legal English has been growing for the past few years.


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Language Teaching Linguistic Theory in Practice by Melinda Whong

An important resource for anyone who takes language teaching and acquisition seriously. -- Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, The University of Western Ontario This is an authoritative synthesis of the main streams of thought in linguistics, second language acquisition research and language teaching methodology.
 
 
The author provides the reader with a rarely encountered integration of the practical with the theoretical, making it an invaluable guide for applied linguists and language teaching practitioners alike. -- Professor Mike Sharwood Smith, Chair of Languages, Heriot-Watt University An important resource for anyone who takes language teaching and acquisition seriously.
 
 
This is an authoritative synthesis of the main streams of thought in linguistics, second language acquisition research and language teaching methodology. The author provides the reader with a rarely encountered integration of the practical with the theoretical, making it an invaluable guide for applied linguists and language teaching practitioners alike.
 

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Introducing The USA - A Cultural Reader by Milada Broukal and Peter Murphy

Introducing the USA is a very useful reader for elementary to intermediate students who want to expand their basic vocabulary and grammar structures within a realistic context.


Each unit (28 in total) is an independent reader which focuses on a particular icon of the United States that range from politics, wildlife, geography, history, people, food, inventions and much more and is followed by a set of very basic grammar exercises to fix vocabulary, reading comprehension and grammar.


The book is very useful to both teachers and self studying students who will benefit from the easy-to-follow units while learning more about the USA. Answer keys are included at the back of the book.

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Intelligent Business Advanced CD-ROM

Intelligent Business gives you two clear paths for your business English course - use the Coursebook for language focused courses or the Skills Book for skills focused courses.

Produced together with The Economist magazine, Intelligent Business features authentic graded articles, Economist-style page design and a CD-ROM full of interactive activities as well as audio and video.


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INSIDE Phonics Teacher Wraparound Edition

INSIDE Phonics covers the complete phonics sequence from letters and sounds to short and long vowels to multisyllabic words. Connected to middle and high school reading/literacy programs, or as a stand-alone program, INSIDE Phonics helps students gain independence in reading and writing. 
 
 
This Teacher’s Edition contains 124 lessons that incorporate instructional routines for the following:
- Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics and Decoding
- Spelling
- High-Frequency Words
 
 
 
PHONICS AND DECODING TRANSPARENCIES
92 full-color transparencies visually engage students to introduce and practice phonics and decoding strategies.

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INSIDE Phonics Decoding Transparencies

INSIDE Phonics covers the complete phonics sequence from letters and sounds to short and long vowels to multisyllabic words. Connected to middle and high school reading/literacy programs, or as a stand-alone program, INSIDE Phonics helps students gain independence in reading and writing. 
 
 
This Teacher’s Edition contains 124 lessons that incorporate instructional routines for the following:
- Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics and Decoding
- Spelling
- High-Frequency Words
 
 
 
PHONICS AND DECODING TRANSPARENCIES
92 full-color transparencies visually engage students to introduce and practice phonics and decoding strategies.

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How to be a Brilliant Trainee Teacher by Trevor Wright

This cheerful and accessible book is packed with direct and straightforward advice drawn from the author’s extensive and successful personal experience as teacher-trainer, teacher and examiner.
 
 
It sets out clear and practical guidelines to support your training and enhance your teaching, moving you directly towards a real understanding of how and why pupils learn and of how you can enhance your own progress. It also offers reassurance and support with the difficulties which you might encounter through your training as a teacher. 

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How to be a Brilliant Thinker Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions

Leading speaker on innovation and creativity Paul Sloane helps readers think in powerful new ways. It shows how to harness techniques in lateral thinking, analytical thinking, problem analysis, idea generation, and other areas to become more creative.


Readers will be able to conceive, evaluate and implement great ideas as well as improve their memory, sell their ideas, and win arguments. The book is packed with practical methods to put to immediate use, backed up by exercises, puzzles, quizzes, graphics, and illustrations.


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How to be a Brilliant Mentor - Developing Outstanding Teachers

Considering why you might become a mentor and what you can gain from the experience, it provides practical strategies and direct problem-solving to help you move promising trainees quickly beyond mere competence.
 
 
It explores:
- collaborative working
- giving effective feedback
- emotional intelligence and developing and maintaining relationships
- dealing with critical incidents
- developing reflective practice
- what to do if relationships beak down
- the relationship between coaching and mentoring
- mentoring newly qualified teachers as well as trainees.
 
 
Illustrated with the experiences of real trainees, How to be a Brilliant Mentor can be dipped into for innovative mentoring ideas or read from cover-to-cover as a short enjoyable course which will give you added confidence in your mentoring role.

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How to be a Brilliant FE Teacher A Practical Guide to Being Effective and Innovative

How to be a Brilliant FE Teacher is a straightforward, friendly guide to being an effective and innovative teacher in post-compulsory education.
 
 
Focussing on practical advice drawn from the author’s extensive and successful personal experience of both teaching and training teachers, it offers sound guidance, underpinned by the latest research, theory and policy in the field.
 
 
Structured around the questions that all new teachers and lecturers ask in their first teaching post, it is an introduction to both essential teaching skills and what to expect from working in this exciting, fast-paced sector.


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Grammar Lessons and Strategies That Strengthen Students Writing

Engaging, explicit lessons using mini-excerpts from books and students’ writing show you how to teach grammar strategically. Zero in on the common grammar glitches, and model for students how to use nouns, verbs, and adjectives effectively, catch mismatched pronoun references; make prose lively with clauses and phrases, use the active voice, and more.
 
 
From learning the parts of speech to the skill of paragraphing, this book covers it, and gives you what you need to teach grammar in the context of reading and writing. For use with Grades 4-8.
 

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Every Book Is a Social Studies Book - How to Meet Standards with Picture Books K-6

Each chapter of this text is organized around one of the National Council for the Social Studies' Ten Thematic Strands, covering diverse and engaging topics ranging from community and individuality to science and technology.


This book serves as a vital resource for classroom teachers, methods professors, staff developers, and curriculum writers who prioritize keeping social studies a part of the elementary school curriculum.


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