Classroom teachers are increasingly expected to teach online - creating content area courses from scratch with little support or training. But high-quality, researched-based online teaching has its own particular set of skills and expectations, and most resources are directed at college-level instructors.
Drawing on findings from the cognitive and organizational sciences, this title tackles such questions as the difference between distributed and collocated learning and performance, the effect of learner control in automated training, and the power of narrative in debriefing at a distance.
The focus of this text highlights teacher candidates' use of remote and best practices for K-12 literacy instruction and engagement of diverse students with diverse literacy learning needs.
Setting out on the journey of adolescence is like taking a boat into turbulent waters, not knowing where one will end up. Will the boat capsize or find its bearing? Where is the rudder? The community of adults in a high school environment is a community of trust in which we need to foster hope, belief in positive change, and commitment to ......
"One could say that a parable contains a larger lesson in a bite-sized portion. Using other words, a parable is a simple short story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson.... The word parable can be traced back to Middle English and Old French origins as parabole and to the ecclesiastical Latin sense of parabola, meaning "discourse, ......
This authoritative LITA guide introduces all aspects of integrating universal design and accessibility principles into online library instruction. In light of new legislation, it is vital that library instructors in school, public, special, and academic libraries ensure compliance with universal design for learning principles.
This award-winning text (a Doody's core title), now in its third edition, integrates new, successful, digital teaching strategies with current distance education practices. Extensive revisions, eight new chapters, and an innovative interactive format facilitate the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of distance curriculum in ......
In this book, Brian Baugus examines home schooling as an education enterprise, arguing that successful home school families have the same characteristics and motivations as entrepreneurs. Baugus examines the history and economic theories behind home schooling to explain the rational decision-making that motivates home schooling endeavors, ......
