On Excellence in Teaching (Leading Edge)

Product Description

Learn from the world's best education researchers, theorists, and staff developers as they present recommendations on effective instruction. The book provides a comprehensive view of instruction from a theoretical, systemic, and classroom perspective. The authors' diverse expertise delivers a wide range of ideas and strategies.

This book is part of The Leading Edge™ series.

Benefits:

• Focus on outcomes by exploring the mission, learning goals, and demands of being a teacher.
• Discover what we know now through decades of research on teacher effectiveness.
• Study the art and the science of instruction and how it connects to the classification of instructional methods.
• Through research on the psychology of school subjects, learn how the science of learning can contribute to improving instruction.
• Examine the decline of the study of the arts, and consider its incompatibility with 21st century skills.
• Learn how providing honest, up-to-date information for curriculum mapping has directly impacted the roles of the teacher and learner.
• Explore metacognitive awareness, and discover how controlling your inner world can make you more effective in addressing difficult classroom situations.
• Equip yourself with four learning styles and eight motivators that can help increase student engagement.

Contents:
Introduction: A Focus on Teaching

Section 1: Theories of Excellence
Chapter 1: What's My Job? Defining the Role of the Classroom Teacher
Chapter 2: Forty Years of Research on Teaching 1968-2008: What Do We Know Now That We Didn't Know Then?
Chapter 3: The Artful Science of Instructional Integration
Chapter 4: Applying the Science of Learning to Instruction in School Subjects

Section 2: Systemic Excellence
Chapter 5: The Incompatibility of High-Stakes Testing and the Development of Skills for the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 6: Teaching the Thinking Skills That Higher-Order Tasks Demand
Chapter 7: Conceptual Designs for Curriculum and Higher-Order Instruction
Chapter 8: Instructional Cartography: How Curriculum Mapping Has Changed the Role and Perspective of the Teacher
Chapter 9: Developing Expert Teachers

Section 3: Classroom Excellence
Chapter 10: Differentiating Instruction in Response to Academically Diverse Student Populations
Chapter 11: Understanding by Design and Instruction
Chapter 12: Cultivating Student Appreciation of the Value of Learning
Chapter 14: The Inner Game of Teaching

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