Classroom Practice

Includes meta-analyses of communication instruction research and reviews literature on communication education/instruction. For scholars, students, and researchers in communication education...

The increasing impact of performance based judgments on schools and teachers in the classroom has its critics and supporters. Some oppose the trend and seek to deny the importance of quantitative measures. Others have sought to find ways of implementing educational measurement constructively and wit..

This second edition of bestselling author Barbara Blackburn’s Classroom Instruction from A to Z covers a broad range of key instructional strategies to help you create more meaningful, engaging learning experiences for your students...

The acquisition and use of language are just as vital to children’s learning when the newer classroom methods are being employed as ever they were when the more traditional approaches were being used. Child centred learning has increasingly influenced language use and language work in the classroom ..

The acquisition and use of language are just as vital to children’s learning when the newer classroom methods are being employed as ever they were when the more traditional approaches were being used. Child centred learning has increasingly influenced language use and language work in the classroom ..

Nonverbal signals are less easily controlled that words and thus, potentially, offer reliable information to both teachers and children on each other’s true intentions. Originally published in 1991, Sean Neill explores how children’s skill in using and understanding nonverbal signals increases with ..

In this provocative book, David McNamara argues that a "teacher centred" approach to primary teaching is, especially in the later years, in the best interests of the children...

In this provocative book, David McNamara argues that a "teacher centred" approach to primary teaching is, especially in the later years, in the best interests of the children...

In classrooms that operate as learning communities, the social and learning purposes advance together through all participants being involved and engaged in building knowledge. This book demonstrates a new way of seeing and managing classrooms...

In this study – the outcome of three years’ participant observation in local authority primary and secondary schools – the classroom teacher is shown to have a far greater impact upon and responsibility for his pupils than is generally admitted. The teacher’s perceptions of the children in his class..

This text addresses instructional issues and provides a wealth of classroom strategies that will enable all middle and secondary teachers to effectively teach their students in ways that develop both content concepts and strategies for continued learning..

This book is an essential resource to improve teaching practice, examining the key elements that contribute to a learner-centred classroom and offering strategies to encourage children to take a shared role in their learning..