Teaching 101

Teaching 101

Written for a wide range of teacher and teacher candidates, this book intends to be both comprehensive and practical. It strives to bridge both pre-service and K-12 markets by addressing the foundations of education and an examination of the literature on teaching effectiveness, then moving into the more applied practical chapters. Teaching 101 identifies, describes and explains essential theories and practices for excellence in teaching and in being a successful teacher. It is written in a workbook format to facilitate easy reading use for beginning teachers. The ideas and principles contained here are generic and relate to teachers at all K-12 levels.

Teaching for Learning

Despite a growing body of research on teaching methods, instructors lack a comprehensive resource that highlights and synthesizes proven approaches. Teaching for Learning fills that gap. Each of the one hundred and one entries: describes an approach and lists its essential features and elements demonstrates how that approach has been used in education, including specific examples from different disciplines reviews findings from the research literature describes techniques to improve effectiveness. Teaching for Learning provides instructors with a resource grounded in the academic knowledge base, written in an easily accessible, engaging, and practical style.

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