Amazon.com description: Product Description: This is a collection of essays about teaching and learning in a secondary school, dealing with topics such as instructional methods, curriculum, evaluation, motivation, discipline, student attitudes and skills, and teaching as a career. Designed for easier reading than other standard methods texts, it covers all of the topics traditionally featured. Weaving together a number of concerns, the author talks about how to teach methods of instruction, but integrates that with a unique perspective on the professional development and well-being of the teacher. He also explores the qualities and skills necessary for student success. He further complements an exploration of teaching and what teachers need to be successful, with a focus on effective and ineffective students. This is a book emphasizing working, being productive, fulfilled and happy in one's work. It is designed to be used as a required or supplementary text in courses dealing with secondary-level instruction.