The Fundamentals Of Teaching

Teachers are bombarded with advice about how to teach. The Fundamentals of Teaching cuts through the confusion by synthesising the key findings from education research and neuroscience to give an authoritative guide. It reveals how learning happens, which methods work best and how to improve any students’ learning. Using a tried-and-tested, Five-Step model for applying the methods effectively in the classroom, Mike Bell shows how you can improve learning and eliminate time-consuming, low-effect practices that increase stress and workload. He includes case studies from teachers working across different subjects and age groups which model practical strategies for: Prior Knowledge Presenting new material Setting challenging tasks Feedback and improvement Repetition and consolidation. This powerful resource is highly recommended for all teachers, school leaders and trainee teachers who want to benefit from the most effective methods in their classrooms.

This unique book presents a personal and global approach to teaching mathematics at university level. It is impressively broad in its scope, and thought-provoking in its advice. The author writes with a love of his subject and the benefit of a long and varied career. He compares and contrasts various educational systems and philosophies. Furthermore, by constantly drawing on his own experiences and those of his colleagues, he offers useful suggestions on how teachers can respond to the problems they face. This book will interest educationalists, policy advisers, administrators, lecturers, and instructors of lecturers. Contents:Education Systems in BriefThe Expansion of EducationAimsUniversities and GovernmentTeachingStudy SkillsRules of TeachingOrganisation and ExaminationsPlanningMethods of Teaching and EquipmentLecturer's ApproachSome Practical PointsAssessment of Teaching Readership: Academics and lecturers involved in mathematics teaching at higher education level. Keywords:Mathematics Education;University Mathematics;EducationReviews:“The book contains many sensible ideas on how teaching and learning should be organised. In particular the author emphasizes that to improve the quality of teaching the whole department should work together and that programmes should be carefully planned … this book is an excellent overview of mathematics teaching at university level and I would recommend it to anyone interested in pedagogical issues.”

Grammar Fundamentals for Teaching English as a Foreign Language: A Teacher's Reference aims to improve your knowledge of and confidence with the English language, including the terminology, form, and meaning of basic grammatical structures. The structures are presented within short vignettes about teaching abroad, including content that should be of interest for anyone in the field of TEFL. The book is designed to serve as a self-study grammar reference for the novice teacher of English grammar, but it can also serve as a review or to provide samples for more advanced grammarians.

Adult education takes many forms - skills training, professional development, personal development, leisure activities, and programs for ethnic groups, the elderly, and specially targeted groups. There are many organizations involved in providing these services, such as volunteer organizations, universities, colleges, businesses, public school boards and governments. This book is intended as a contribution to the study and practice of adult education in Canada. It is intended mainly for beginning students at universities and colleges, but practitioners and laypersons will find the selections stimulating and useful. The contributors are researchers and practitioners from all walks of life. They provide the reader with current research, stimulating thoughts, and insightful commentary.

A treatise of ethics and psychology in which the causes of many social problems are analysed like ambition and fear, for example, and likewise, the inequalities and abuses that exist in different social strata, and in the diverse stages of one's life, like childhood, adolescence, mature age, old age, etc. A fundamental book for self-education and educating our own children. "Dr. Samael Aun Weor, prolific esotericist author and anthropologist, was born amidst the tribulations of a society that was succumbing to materialism and the decadence of all ethical, philosophical and transcendental values. After enormous personal sacrifices, he achieved his personal Self-Realization and dedicated his entire life and his immense work to teaching humanity the path of the true Awakening of Consciousness, traditionally known as Gnosis. Samael Aun Weor delivers, in his more than sixty works and renouncing all personal benefits, hundreds of practices and all the keys (including the Secreto Secretorum) of true esotericism in depth that allows the seeker to discover by himself the answers and experience the results, through a psychological work based on three factors: To be born (alchemically), To Die (to everything illusory) and the Sacrifice for Humanity (to pay our karmic debts).You can find more information about this unrivaled author at www.samael.org." AGEAC presents its collection of books in basic format, black and white. If you wish to purchase our books in color format and with exclusive design, please contact us through our web pages.

The Learning Rainforest is a guide to making teaching both effective and manageable. Tom Sherrington provides an accessible summary of key contemporary evidence-based ideas for the classroom and the debates that all teachers should be engaging in, buoyed by his 30 years as a teacher and school leader.