Elementary School Methods

Methods in Elementary School Studies

Curriculum and Instructional Methods for the Elementary and Middle School

Unlike texts that focus on either the "how" or "what" of teaching, Curriculum and Instructional Methods for the Elementary and Middle School explores both the "how" (instruction) and "what" (content), and provides an integrative approach to ensure teachers a broad knowledge base when they enter the classroom. This successful K-8 elementary methods text includes both general topics of classroom management, learner differences, planning, assessment, and models of teaching with unique chapters on integrating the best teaching strategies for each content area. By incorporating detailed teaching scenarios, this text offers teacher candidates a hands-on, real-world approach with practical instructional strategies and teaching hints related to research, ELL, planning, and more! The new edition includes coverage of current issues and topics impacting teachers and students in today's classrooms are including bullying (Ch. 2 & 14), school safety and violence (Ch.1), home schooling and charter schools (Ch. 1 & 14), and much more.

Developing a Teaching Style

"New topics include multiple intelligences, constructivism, the learning cycle, and authentic and performance assessments. Each chapter presents the reader with choices that elementary teachers must make throughout their teaching careers. The book encourages beginning teachers to reflect on these choices and how they relate to their own personalities and to the backgrounds of their students in order to help them decide what kinds of instructional settings are most compatible with their own professional orientation."--BOOK JACKET.