A guide for education students covers such topics as creating productive learning environments, the philosophy of education, the organization of schools, finance, school law, the curriculum, and technology in the classroom.

Product Description: Este libro de estrategias para la enseñanza se ha basado en tres tipos de fuentes: en primer lugar los autores han trabajado a partir de los avances de la investigación en psicología cognitiva; en segundo, han considerado la bibliografía sobre temas de didáctica general y en tercero, han trabajado desde la experiencia que proporciona la observación de clases y el contacto con los estudiantes...read more

Product Description: Planning.  Implementing.  Assessing.  The act of teaching is founded on these three principles.  It is the process of doing these three things well that makes for good teaching.  The goal of this book is to provide the tools that will enable preservice and inservice teachers to plan, implement, and assess effectively in this era of standards and accountability...read more

Product Description: For courses in Introduction to Educational Psychology. Long recognized as very applied and practical, Eggen and Kauchak's Educational Psychology: Windows on Classrooms, seventh edition is now even more applied and concise, giving students exactly what they need to know in the course...read more

Presents practical methods for teaching, organizing the discussion around the themes of diversity, motivation, and technology.

Product Description: This substantially revised Fifth Edition represents one of the most up-to-date, research-based methods texts available today. This text has two specific goals: to change how teachers think about teaching and to change how they actually teach...read more

Product Description: Methods for Teaching uses a three-phase model of teaching--planning, implementing, and assessing--as a framework for fostering a success-oriented K-12 environment by promoting student learning. Features new to the sixth edition include: *An increased focus on constructivist learning theory *Significant new coverage of technology and technology delivery systems *Discussions of -- National standards and professional development -- Applications of NCATE and INTASC -- English proficiency and ESL -- Rubrics *A companion Website, www...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This K-12 teaching methods text translates cognitive principles of learning into teaching strategies. Each research-based model, or teaching strategy, is illustrated with a chapter-opening case study and described in terms of planning, implementing, and evaluation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Este libro de estrategias para la ensenanza se ha basado en tres tipos de fuentes: en primer lugar los autores han trabajado a partir de los avances de la investigacion en psicologia cognitiva; en segundo, han considerado la bibliografia sobre temas de didactica general y en tercero, han trabajado desde la experiencia que proporciona la observacion de clases y el contacto con los estudiantes...read more

Product Description: Este libro de estrategias para la enseñanza se ha basado en tres tipos de fuentes: en primer lugar los autores han trabajado a partir de los avances de la investigación en psicología cognitiva; en segundo, han considerado la bibliografía sobre temas de didáctica general y en tercero, han trabajado desde la experiencia que proporciona la observación de clases y el contacto con los estudiantes...read more

Product Description: This outstanding resource opens with chapters that provide background and conceptual framework for the remainder of the book. They describe and illustrate the nature of science and discuss its implications for the elementary school science curriculum...read more