Metaphors & analogies
Subtitle: power tools for teaching any subject
By: Rick Wormeli.
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Portland, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781571107589
Subjects: Teaching; Metaphor -- Study and teaching
Other titles: Metaphors and analogies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: Events create ripples and equations are balances : metaphors in every subject; title: Familiarity breeds content; title: Archimedes' metaphorical legacy : the right tools for the job; title: Walking in our students' shoes, and sometimes making the shoes ourselves; title: Focusing the lens on English language learners; title: Metaphor in motion : the physics of comprehension; title: Seeing is believing : developing visual metaphors; title: The incubation stage : hatching new metaphors and analogies; title: Cleaning out the metaphorical carburetor : teaching students what to do when metaphors break down; title: Listening to harmony and discordant sounds : transcending current education metaphors; title: Appendix A: Metaphorical terms and devices; title: Appendix B: In the classroom : creative examples of metaphors from teachers; title: Additional resources.