A Resource Guide for Teaching K-12, 5th Edition

Practical and thorough, this engaging resource guide truly practices what it preaches: hands-on, activities-rich, research-based, performance-driven teaching. With its hallmark practicality, the text uses case studies, sample units with lessons, opportunities for practice and feedback, and activities to equip future teachers with numerous examples of best practices, current research findings, and proven teaching strategies.

This is truly one of the most comprehensive texts on the market today, made even better in this latest edition with its organization designed around the decision-making phases of instruction.

Topics covered include:

• Today's Schools: Recognizing and Understanding the Challenge

• Teacher Professional Responsibilities

• The Classroom Learning Environment

• The Curriculum: Selecting and Setting Learning Expectations

• Planning the Instruction

• The Use of Questioning

• Grouping Students for Quality Learning

• The Thinking Curriculum: Using Teacher Talk, Demonstrations, Thinking, Inquiry, and Games

• Assessing and Reporting Student Achievement

• Continued Reflection and Professional Development

Author: Richard D. Kellough
Published: March 2006
ISBN: 0-13-170543-1
448 Pages