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The fifth edition of Observation Skills for Effective Teaching focuses on one of the principal means by which you can become an effective and professional teacher—by observing others and incorporating the best of what you see and hear into you own practice. You will learn to observe in the following eight areas: learning climate, classroom management, lesson clarity, instructional variety, task orientation, student engagement, student success, and higher thought processes.  These eight areas have been found by researchers to be related to desirable cognitive, social and emotional outcomes in learners.

Product Description: For graduate and undergraduate courses in general K-12 methods.   The new edition of this popular text clearly achieves its stated goal: to prepare prospective teachers to meet the challenges of today's changing classrooms by providing effective, practical, research-based practices in an accessible, conversational style...read more

Product Description: This guide explores how students enrolled in teacher education courses can get the most out of their observations in schools and other education-related settings. The author explores several research-based methods for viewing classroom behavior and provides practical exercises to help prospective teachers interpret the busy and complex interactions they observe...read more

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Product Description: Brief and practical, this popular book focuses on what classroom assessment is and how to do it, and bridges the gap between testing a learner's knowledge of particular “information” and measuring his or her ability to transfer knowledge and think strategically...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For graduate and undergraduate courses in general K-12 methods. The new edition of this popular text clearly achieves its stated goal: to prepare prospective teachers to meet the challenges of today's changing classrooms by providing effective, practical, research-based practices in an accessible, conversational style...read more

Product Description: This paperback focuses on authentic assessment—what it is, how to do it, and what the issues surrounding it are (e.g., validity, reliability, and impacts on instruction). The authors intent is to excite teachers about the possibilities for learning in their classrooms and to indicate ways to communicate this learning to other teachers, parents, and learners...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: What is an effective school and what is an effective teacher? These are vitally important questions for the beginner teacher; questions which are answered in this book through conversational dialogues between a principal, a pre-service teacher and experienced teachers...read more

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