BS in Education: Books

Hard-to-Teach Biology Concepts provides an Instructional Planning Framework that helps you understand students' learning needs, incorporate appropriate teaching strategies, and interpret the framework and teaching tools through the lens of NGSS.

In Teaching History Then and Now, Larry Cuban explores the teaching of history in American high schools during the past half-century.

The book begins by exploring the nature and purpose of physical education and examining the historical development of initial teacher training. It examines recent changes in training, policy and curriculum, and offers an overview of the various ways of becoming a PE teacher, including the Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) and school and employment based routes.

As a physical educator (or student preparing to become one), you need to know more than the skills, techniques, and tactics of the sports and activities you teach.

The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education is the definitive guide for future K-12 physical educators, as well as current teachers and administrators, and is an appropriate resource for learning to teach at both the elementary and the secondary levels.

As a physical education teacher, you are ideally positioned to help students become physically literate individuals--that is, to gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity.

Focused on physical literacy and measurable outcomes, empowering physical educators to help students meet the Common Core standards, and coming from a recently renamed but longstanding organization intent on shaping a standard of excellence in physical education, National Standards & Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education is all that and much more.

A Practical Guide to Teaching Physical Education in the Secondary School is written for all student teachers on university and school-based initial teacher education courses.

The Really Useful Physical Education Book offers support, guidance and practical ideas for effective, innovative and imaginative physical education lessons.

Combining a grounded, modern rationale for teaching with highly practical training approaches, the book offers clear, straightforward advice on effective practice which will develop students' physical literacy, knowledge and inter-personal skills.

Written specifically for high school students and aligned to the guidelines of the AP® Calculus exam.

Give math students the connections between what they learn and how they do math.

The goal of this book is to begin to change the way students experience mathematics in the middle and high school classrooms.

Discrete Mathematics Through Applications is designed to help you put the established NCTM Standards for Discrete Math to work in your classroom.

The book focuses on the mathematics classroom for students and how students can become more successful mathematical thinkers.

Explaining and Exploring Mathematics is designed to help you teach key mathematical concepts in a fun and engaging ways.

Develop a deep understanding of mathematics by grasping the context and purpose behind various strategies.

75 formative assessment strategies and show teachers how to use them to inform instructional planning and better meet the needs of all students.

Improve student outcomes with 50 all-new formative assessment classroom techniques (FACTS).

Banish math anxiety and give students of all ages a clear roadmap to success.

A perennial discussion about teacher development is the optimal content background for teachers.

Performance tasks are highly effective tools to assist you in implementing rigorous standards. But how do you create, evaluate, and use such tools?

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