A Resource Guide for Teaching K-12 - Softcover

Using a practical "workbook" approach with an active learning focus, this comprehensive, yet concise, resource guide is designed to engage students in "hands-on" and "minds-on" learning about effective teaching. Set around the four components of learning to teach -- why, what, how, and how well -- it focuses on an eclectic approach to teaching -- with a cognitive-humanistic emphasis. Through collaborative and cooperative learning exercises in every chapter, students learn about, practice, discuss, and implement the full spectrum of effective teaching skills and strategies.

This concise resource guide uses an engaging writing style that helps readers learn, practice, discuss, implement, and evaluate a broad spectrum of effective teaching skills and strategies. The central strength is its practical approach, which is supported by numerous “hand-on” activities, opportunities for practice, case studies, and sample lessons. Offers an active learning approach incorporating numerous exercises throughout the book. Provides more than 100 ideas for motivating lessons, interdisciplinary teaching, transcultural studies, community service learning, and student projects. Covers best practices and exemplary school programs. Includes instructional scenarios and classroom vignettes. For educators and school administrators.