Resources by Jossey-Bass

49 useful teaching techniques

There’s a lot here that you could have a go at to improve questioning for AfL.  For example, have a look at:

technique 2 – right is right

technique 3 – stretch it

technique 22 – Cold call

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'Biology inquiries' offers educators a handbook for teaching middle and high school students engaging lessons in the life sciences. Inspired by the National Science Education Standards, the book bridges the gap...

This unique resource is packed with novel and innovative ideas and activities you can put to use immediately to enliven and enrich your teaching of biology, streamline your classroom management, and free up your time...

'Boys and girls learn differently!' offers valuable and much-needed tools to provide boys and girls with true equal educational opportunities. The new techniques Michael Gurian presents here will transform our...

Children become a super science sleuth with 'Detective science 40 crime-solving, case-breaking, crook-catching activities for kids'. Search for evidence, gather clues, and discover how science can help solve a...

The workforce of the 21st Century must be scientifically and technologically literate and able to think critically. Only through the systematic restructuring of elementary teacher preparation can this goal be achieved. This book points the way to reform, required reading for teacher educators, administrators, and...

This comprehensive collection of over 300 intriguing investigations - including demonstrations, labs, and other activities - uses everyday examples to make chemistry concepts easy to understand.

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This is the second edition of Marvin N. Tolman s bestselling book Hands-On Life Science Activities for Grades K-6. Like all the books in The Science Problem-Solving Curriculum Library series, this revised edition...

This is the second edition of Marvin N. Tolman s bestselling book Hands-On Physical Science Activities for Grades K-6. Like all the books in The Science Problem-Solving Curriculum Library series, this revised edition offers compelling activities that help teach students thinking and reasoning skills along with...

This comprehensive collection of nearly 200 investigations, demonstrations, mini-labs, and other activities uses everyday examples to make physics concepts easy to understand. For quick access, materials are...