Job aids are often the most practical way to get quick performance improvement, particularly in time-pressured, resource-constrained situations. Not sure where to begin, or even if a job aid is the ...right choice? Job Aids Basics will teach you everything you need to know about selecting, creating, and using job aids. In this revised second edition, author Joe Willmore has included new examples of how to use job aids, as well as a new chapter on creating job aids for mobile devices. This is in addition to his step-by-step guide to determining the right job aid format for any situation, developing it using proven best practices, and implementing it in a way that ensures people will actually use it on the job. Willmore also gives you an evaluation process to determine if the job aid accomplished the business objectives you set out to meet. Each chapter contains insightful tips and tricks to help you avoid common mistakes people make when designing a job aid. There are also exercises at the end of every chapter so you can practice what you've learned. And as with all books in ATD's Training Basics series, icons will alert you to essential concepts and definitions. Go from novice job aid designer to expert by adding this crucial resource to your training toolkit.
The fundamental principles of materials development in TESOL
Materials are at the very centre of language teaching, and understanding what goes into creating them is an essential part of a language ...teacher's professional development.
Offering a practical introduction to the fundamental principles of materials development in TESOL, this textbook introduces you to a wide range of theoretical and practical issues in materials development to enable you to make informed and principled choices in the selection, evaluation, adaptation and production of materials.
Advocating a principled approach to the creation of materials, it combines an awareness of relevant language learning and teaching theory with a critical attitude to existing published materials. It also encourages critical reflection by demonstrating how choices need to be informed by an awareness of culture, context and purpose.
Material Development in TESOL's stimulating approach, with thought-provoking, interactive tasks, online resources, and added perspectives from international research, makes it an ideal textbook for language teacher programmes around the world, equipping TESOL student teachers and practicing teachers with the frameworks, resources and practical skills necessary to carry out effective evaluations and to develop principled materials in practice.
Written specifically for TESOL practitioners and those studying TESOL teachingAccessible presentation of concepts and researchAccompanying website provides additional online resources and materialsInteractive tasks and further reading suggestionsEncourages students to critically reflect on their choices of materials
Reading Wellness Burkins, Jan Miller; Yaris, Kim
2014, 2023-10-10
eBook
With so many state standards and demands of accountability, it can be a challenge for teachers to teach in ways that create energy and enthusiasm for reading. In their book,
Reading Wellness: Lessons ...in Independence and Proficiency
, authors Dr. Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris want to reignite the passion in teachers and drive them to instill confidence, curiosity, and joy in students.
Burkins and Yates define reading wellness to include all aspects of readership 'so we can be our best reading selves'. The book is built around a framework of four intentions: alignment, balance, sustainability, and joy. It includes a series of field-tested lessons that help children read closely and carefully while still honoring their interests, passions, and agency as readers.
Reading Wellness
encourages each teacher to shape these ideas in ways that support personal ideals and goals while nurturing a love of reading and a passion for lifelong learning.
This book provides instructors with a holistic way of thinking about learners, learning, and online course design. The distinctive strategies derived from an integrated framework for designing the ...online learning experience help create an experience that is more personalized, engaging, and meaningful for online learners.
With the development of information technology, online assessments have been widely adopted in College English. Up to date, the majority of studies pertaining to online assessments have been about ...assessment environments and invigilating, as well as the benefits deriving from online assessments. However, there is a lack of studies with regards to the candidates’ experience and views on online assessments and the impact of online assessments on their grades. After collecting the data from results of three tests taken by 126 candidates, a questionnaire survey was designed for all of them and 20 relevant candidates were interviewed, it was thus found that online assessments do have a negative impact on the performance and the candidates prefer traditional testing on paper.
Sound linkage Hatcher, Peter J; Duff, Fiona J; Hulme, Charles
2014/01/01, 2014, 2014-02-25, 2014-02-19
eBook
The third edition of this highly successful phonological training programme, developed to support children with reading delays and dyslexia, has been revised throughout to incorporate the latest ...research in the field. The package contains a phonological training programme, and explains how this programme can be embedded within a broader reading intervention. These materials and the broader approach have been used with a wide range of children since 1994, and found to be suitable for reading-delayed children, irrespective of cognitive ability and age.
The development of teaching and learning materials is an essential component of endangered language revitalisation, yet there is very little academic research on this crucial topic. Our volume seeks ...to address this imbalance by examining endangered language pedagogical materials from around the world including traditional resources such as grammars, dictionaries, and textbooks, as well as new media such as online courses, apps, video games, etc. Chapters provide theoretical and applied perspectives, and consider Indigenous and other threatened languages from various regions of the world including the Americas, Australia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia. This volume is the first in the FEL Yearbook Series.
Responding to both the trend towards increasing online enrollments as the demand for face-to-face education declines, and to the immediate surge in remote learning owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, ...this book provides vital guidance to higher education institutions on how to develop faculty capacity to teach online and to leverage the affordances of an ever-increasing array of new and emerging learning technologies.This book provides higher education leaders with the context they need to position their institutions in the changing online environment, and with guidance to build support in a period of transition.It is intended for campus leaders and administrators who work with campus teams charged with identifying learning technologies to meet an agreed upon program- or institution-level educational needs; for those coordinating across campus to build consensus on implementing online strategies; and for instructional designers, faculty developers and assessment directors who assist departments and faculty effectively integrate learning technologies into their courses and programs. It will also appeal to faculty who take an active interest in improving online teaching.The contributors to this volume describe the potential of artificial intelligence algorithms, such as those that fuel learning analytics software that mines LMS data to enable faculty to quickly and efficiently assess individual students progress in real time, prompting either individual attention or the need to more generally clarify concepts for the class as whole. They describe and provide access to a hybrid professional development MOOC and an associated WIKI that curate information about a wide range of learning software solutions currently available; and present case studies that offer guidance on building the buy-in and consensus needed to successfully integrate learning technologies into course, program- and institution-level contexts.In sum, this book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the technological capabilities available to them and identifies collaborative processes related to engaging and building institutional support for the changes needed to provide the rapidly growing demand for effective and evidence-based online learning.
In this engaging volume, Jon Dron views education, learning, and teaching through a technological lens that focuses on the parts we play in technologies, from language and pedagogies to computers and ...regulations. He proposes a new theory of education whereby individuals are not just users but co-participants in technologies—technologies that are intrinsic parts of our cognition, of which we form intrinsic parts, through which we are entangled with one another and the world around us. Dron reframes popular families of educational theory (objectivist, subjectivist, and complexivist) and explains a variety of educational phenomena, including the failure of learning style theories, the nature of literacies, systemic weaknesses in learning management systems, the prevalence of cheating in educational institutions, and the fundamental differences between online and in-person learning. Ultimately, How Education Works articulates how practitioners in education can usefully understand technology, education, and their relationship to improve teaching practice.
This book features practical reading strategies for elementary students, with a focus on how technology can be used to improve the skills of a wide range of readers. Educators must be able to engage ...with readers at every level. They must also be able to evaluate where each student lies on the continuum and improve students' skills to bring them to the appropriate level. Engaging Young Readers is a beginner-level guide focusing on developmental reading strategies for elementary students at all stages, with guidance on how to use technology to improve the skills of beginning readers, struggling readers, reluctant readers, enriched readers and English Language Learners (ELLs).Topics covered include: * Using music as an instructional tool * Choral reading and read alouds * Graphic organizers * Dramatic learning and literature circles * Writing workshops * And much more! This book gives teachers the strategies and technology they need to meet their students where they are in their reading ability so they can move forward in their personalized skill development. Audience: K-5 educators
