English for Specific Purposes (Resource Book for Teachers)

Title: English for Specific Purposes (Resource Book for Teachers)
Author(s): Keith Harding
Publisher: Ox
ISBN: 9780194425759
Date: 2007
Pages: 179
Size: 42.2 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Gives teachers practical advice for teaching vocational English to any profession. This versatile book helps teachers identify and teach the language areas - such as health and safety, instructions, and customer relations - which are common to the majority of different vocations.

Key features:
• Over 80 generic classroom activities.
• Needs analysis helps teachers design a course that covers what students need for their working environment.
• Adaptable activities are transferable across different vocations.
• Suitable for teachers, teacher trainers, and new teachers.

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50 Activities for Coaching/Mentoring

Title: 50 Activities for Coaching/Mentoring
Level: All
Author(s): Donna Berry, Charles Cadwell and Joe Fehrmann
Publisher: HRD Press
ISBN: 0874252180
Date: 1993
Pages: 299
Size: 1.35 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

The 50 activities in this resource book have been tested with hundreds of participants to ensure their appropriateness and effectiveness for a variety of diversity training needs. Employees at all levels will be stimulated by interactively learning about cultural and gender differences, and mastering new skills for communicating more effectively in our diverse workplaces. Each activity is ready to use and includes trainer's notes and all necessary handouts and overhead transparency masters. They each take between 15 and 45 minutes to complete.

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The Teachers' Animation Toolkit

Title: The Teachers' Animation Toolkit
Author(s): Britta Pollmüller and Martin Sercombe
Publisher: Continuum
ISBN: 9781441131072
Date: 2011
Pages: 181
Size: 1.68 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

This toolkit, together with an extensive companion website, will give you the confidence to use animation in your classroom. From teaching basic flip book animation right through to producing an animated film, there are drawing templates for the less confident teacher artists and tried-and-tested schemes of work, plus advice on how to use animation equipment and what technology and software is available. This practical, cross-curricular resource is particularly suitable for use with students aged 11-16, although many of the activities can be adapted for older or younger students. It can be used in Art, Media Studies, ICT and many other subjects to engage learners of all styles and abilities.

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Teaching English in the Primary Classroom

Title: Teaching English in the Primary Classroom
Author(s): Susan Halliwell
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 0582071097
Date: 1992
Pages: 175
Size: 5.52 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This is a key book for all primary teachers for it helps them understand the importance of capitalising on the enthusiasm, the motivation, the willingness to learn and participate that children bring to class. It shows you that the special abilities children have are a spring of learning for you as well. Of course this book offers practical activities which are easy and enjoyable.

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Achieving Competence, Success and Excellence in Teaching

Title: Achieving Competence, Success and Excellence in Teaching
Author(s): Mark Brundrett and Peter Silcock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0203215125
Date: 2002
Pages: 192
Size: 1.24 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Uniquely, the authors separate the classical teaching approaches, teacher and pupil centred, from the more contemporary, partnership approaches. They look at a variety of models of successful and quality teaching and illustrate their virtues and limitations. The book also highlights ways in which inspection and appraisal strategies can be revised to meet criteria acceptable to both teachers and the groups to whom they are accountable.

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English 7-11: Developing Primary Teaching Skills

Title: English 7-11: Developing Primary Teaching Skills
Author(s): David Wray
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415104270
Date: 1995
Pages: 137
Size: 1.6 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High, printable
Language: American English

This book focuses on approaches to the teaching of primary English at Key Stage 2 in the context of the National Curriculum. Through a series of guided activities, teachers are encouraged to reflect upon particular teaching strategies and activities such as: an analysis of language and literacy, the processes of language and literacy, the use of topic work, a critical look at classroom environments, and examination of the texts which children read and write, and a discussion of the role of the teacher.

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Creative Teaching: Getting it Right

Title: Creative Teaching: Getting it Right
Author(s): David Starbuck
Publisher: Continuum
ISBN: 0826491588
Date: 2006
Pages: 151
Size: 3.23 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Most teachers accept that learning is most effective when it is enjoyable, but they are given little direct advice about how to achieve the creative and motivating classrooms that educationalists appeal for. This fascinating book creates a coherent picture of how teachers can make learning easier and more enjoyable for their pupils, including activity ideas, self-evaluation exercises and adaptable action plans for improving both classroom and whole-school ethos.

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Developing Students’ Multiple Intelligences (Grades K-8)

Title: Developing Students' Multiple Intelligences
Level: Grades K-8
Author(s): Kristen Nicholson-Nelson
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 0590931016
Date: 1998
Pages: 161
Size: 4.65 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Hundreds of Practical Ideas Easily Integrated Into Your Lessons and Activities. Are your students word smart? Math smart? People smart? Tap into your students' diverse intelligences and enrich your lesson plans with this helpful resource. Your students will love learning in ways that play to their strengths.

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English as a Second Language

Title: English as a Second Language: Languages and Linguistics
Author(s): David J. Alonso
Publisher: Nova
ISBN: 9781611226133
Date: 2011
Pages: 207
Size: 1.59 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

English as a Second Language (ESL) education has gained an increasingly important role in career development in science, business, and industry on the global stage. Language teaching practice often assumes that most of the difficulties that learners face in the study of English are a consequence of the degree to which their native language differs from English. One great challenge for adult ESL learners is to reduce or eliminate 'foreign accent' in their English pronunciation. This book presents current research in the study of ESL, including brain plasticity and phonetic training in ESL; using authentic newspaper texts in teaching intermediate vocabulary in ESL learners; EFL/ESL teaching in China; and improving reading skills for ESL learners using SoundSpel.

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Conversation in Action - Let's Talk

Title: Conversation in Action - Let's Talk
Author(s): Edward R. Rosset
Publisher: Stanley
ISBN: 8478733264
Date: 2001
Pages: 112
Size: 10.81 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Conversation in action is a book designed for teachers. The 50 units that make up the book are the result of many years of experience in the area of languages. It tries to solve the problems of many teachers that have difficulties in making pupils speak in English. Others have a hard time in finding topics to speak about, without repeating themselves day after day. [+/-]

For one reason or other, the experience shows that teachers spend the whole class speaking, while pupils answer with monosyllables. This book provides the teacher with endless questions, besides interactive ideas; with this, an appropriate atmosphere is created for the students to express themselves in English.

The book is made up of 50 units; a different topic being worked out in each unit
There are 40 questions about each topic. An illustration and a text about which the pupils have to make questions and answers as well as give explanations, complete the unit Couples or groups are made up to discuss, to comment about assertions and to decide whether some things are true or false.

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Online Intercultural Exchange: An Introduction for Foreign Language Teachers

Title: Online Intercultural Exchange: An Introduction for Foreign Language Teachers
Author(s): Robert O’Dowd
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd
ISBN: 9781847690081
Date: 2007
Pages: 305
Size: 1.92 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This volume provides an introduction to online intercultural exchange, the activity of engaging language learners in collaborative project work with partners from other cultures through the use of online communication technology. The chapters look at how online collaboration can be successfully integrated into the foreign language classroom and how it can contribute to the development of students' intercultural communicative competence.

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Learning Through Practice

Title: Learning Through Practice: Models, Traditions, Orientations and Approaches (Professional and Practice-based Learning)
Author(s): Stephen Billett
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789048139385
Date: 2010
Pages: 309
Size: 2.96 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

The book’s two sections first explore the conceptual foundations of learning through practice, and then provide detailed examples of its implementation. Long-standing practice-based approaches to learning have been used in many professions and trades. Indeed, admission to the trades and major professions (e.g. medicine, law, accountancy) can only be realised after completing extended periods of practice in authentic practice settings. [+/-]

However, the growing contemporary interest in using practice-based learning in more extensive contexts has arisen from concerns about the direct employability of graduates and the increasing focus on occupation-specific courses in both vocations and higher education.

It is an especially urgent issue in an era of critical skill shortages, rapidly transforming work requirements and an aging workforce combined with a looming shortage of new workforce entrants. We must better understand how existing models of practice-based learning are enacted in order to identify how they can be applied to different kinds of employment and workplaces. The contributions to this volume explore ways in which learning through practice can be conceptualised, enacted, and appraised through an analysis of the traditions, purposes, and processes that support this learning—including curriculum models and pedagogic practices.

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How to Teach English with Technology (eBook+CD-ROM)

Title: How to Teach English with Technology
Author(s): Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 978l405847735
Date: 2008
Pages: 194
Size: 388 Mb
Format: PDF + EXE
Quality: High
Language: British English

How to Teach English with Technology by Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly offers a clear, comprehensive, confidence-building introduction to the use of technology in the language classroom.

The book includes:
• a CD-ROM with video tutorials about how to use Webquests, Skype, Blogger, RSS, Second Life etc.
• information on how to set up internet-based project work
• instructions on how to use blogs, wikis, and podcasts etc.
• a guide to producing your own electronic materials

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Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

Title: Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms: A Resource for Teacher Educators
Author(s): Tamara Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415997925
Date: 2011
Pages: 252
Size: 1.63 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Teacher educators today need knowledge and practical ideas about how to prepare all pre-service and in-service teachers (not just bilingual or ESL specialists) to teach the growing number of students in K-12 classrooms in the United States who speak native languages other than English. This book is at the forefront in focusing exclusively on the preparation of mainstream classroom teachers for this population of students. [+/-]

Part one provides the conceptual and contextual framework for the book, including a comprehensive discussion of relevant demographic trends and an analysis of national and state policies. Part two presents examples of initiatives in different institutional and geographic settings, highlighting three essential elements of teacher preparation: curriculum content, program design, and program coherence.

Meeting a pressing need among teacher educators left to figure out, largely by trial and error, how best to prepare non-specialist classroom teachers to work with ELLs, this book both contributes to the research base and provides practical information to help readers envision possibilities they can apply in their own settings.

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Improving Schools and Educational Systems: International Perspectives

Title: Improving Schools and Educational Systems: International Perspectives
Author(s): Alma Harris and Janet H. Chrispeels
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415362229
Date: 2006
Pages: 337
Size: 2.44 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement.

This book draws together the most effective school improvement projects from around the world in one comprehensive text, including detailed comparative analysis of a wide variety of initiatives. Drawing on examples from the UK, the USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia this book gives both an international snapshot and a coherent synthesis of initiatives that have given achievable results.

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The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness

Title: The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness
Author(s): Christopher M. Bache
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791476464
Date: 2008
Pages: 275
Size: 2.40 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Drawing upon Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic fields, Bache proposes that well-taught courses generate "learning fields" around them, forms of collective consciousness that can trigger new insights and startling personal transformations. Moving beyond theory, this book is rich with student stories and offers practical, hands-on strategies for teachers who want to begin working with these learning fields to take their teaching to a more conscious level.

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First Day to Final Grade: A Graduate Student's Guide to Teaching

Title: First Day to Final Grade: A Graduate Student's Guide to Teaching
Author(s): Anne Curzan and Lisa Damour
Publisher: University of Michigan
ISBN: 0472031880
Date: 2006
Pages: 208
Size: 1.37 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

First Day to Final Grade: A Graduate Student’s Guide to Teaching is designed to help new graduate student teaching assistants navigate the challenges of teaching undergraduates. Both a quick reference tool and a fluid read, the book focuses on the “how tos,” such as setting up a lesson plan, running a discussion, and grading, as well as issues specific to the teaching assistant’s unique role as both student and teacher. [+/-]

This new edition incorporates newer teaching and learning pedagogy. The authors have modified sections on moving from class goals to class content, preparing for and running discussions, addressing problems within the class and with particular students, and responding to academic misconduct. In addition, the book has been updated to reflect the role of technology both inside and outside the classroom. Also included are new examples of materials throughout the text and the appendices.

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What Teachers Need to Know about Teaching Methods

Title: What Teachers Need to Know about Teaching Methods
Author(s): Peter Westwood
Publisher: Acer Press
ISBN: 0864319126
Date: 2008
Pages: 114
Size: 1.69 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: English

What Teachers Need to Know About Teaching Methods explains the different theories of teaching and learning, together with their underlying principles and methods. It defines the role of a teacher in the learning process and looks at the latest research on what contributes to effective practice. Teaching Methods deals with important key issues and provides a wealth of references for further study and exploration in the subject.

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What Expert Teachers Do

Title: What Expert Teachers Do: Enhancing Professional Knowledge for Classroom Practice
Author(s): John Loughran
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 0415579678
Date: 2010
Pages: 246
Size: Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: English

How do expert teachers do it? How do they enhance student learning? How do they manage the dilemmas and tensions inherent in working with 25 different students in every lesson?

Internationally respected teacher educator John Loughran argues that teachers knowledge of what they do is largely tacit and often misunderstood. In this book, he distils the essence of professional practice for classroom teachers. 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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Phonics Flashcards for Kids (Printable)

Title: Phonics Flashcards for Kids
Compiled by: O'Mama
Publisher: Various resources
Quantity: 100+ PDF files/1000+ printable flashcards
Size: 216 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High, b/w, color, printable
Language: English

This phonic flashcard collection contains many activities for use with these letters. Each activity can be used for whole-class, small group, individual, and/or paired instruction, as well as a center activity. It is recommended to introduce the activity as a whole class or small group activity prior to expecting students to complete it as an individual, paired, or center activity. [+/-]

The activities that are provided, model ways to incorporate the use of Phonics Flashcards into your classroom routines. Each activity lists a goal, materials needed and procedures to carry out the activity. Some activities suggest a variation to the activity or reference a worksheet included in the back of this guide. Activities can be modified to meet the individual needs of your students and classroom.

The Phonics Flashcard Collection features:
• Introduce the ABCs
• Practice writing the letters of the alphabet
• Match lowercase and uppercase letters of the alphabet
• Identify missing letters of the alphabet
• Sort letters according to shape (circles and sticks)
• Place letters in ABC order
• Manipulate letters to spell your name
• Identify letters (letter sounds) using a tactile approach
• Learn the letter sounds
• Learn the consonant and vowel sounds
• Create word families
• Identify short vowels in word families
• Learn sight words
• Identify the letter missing in the alphabet
• Create words beginning with a specific letter sound
• Identify the missing word in a sentence
• Practice spelling words using flashcards
• etc.

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