Provides a guide to instructional methods and contains practical exercises for active learning, giving an introduction to professional responsibilities, curriculum, planning, assessment, and professional development.

Product Description: Thoroughly revised and updated, Secondary School Teaching: A Guide to Methods and Resources is a comprehensive guide to instructional methods and contains many practical exercises for active learning.   This text provides a sound introduction to the challenges of today's secondary schools, teachers' professional responsibilities, thinking and questioning, classroom environment, curriculum, planning instruction, assessment using inquiry, teacher talk, and games, learning alone and in groups, and professional development...read more

Presents a collection of methods, guidelines, and resources to teach middle school students.

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As a core text specifically written for middle school methods or introduction to middle school courses, this book emphasizes a practical approach and covers everything from young adolescent characteristics to planning, implementing, and assessing. Taking an eclectic approach, the text provides fundamental frameworks from which future teachers can develop their own strategies and systems. The authors, known for their focus on practice, provide a wealth of exercises and teacher resources. (view table of contents)

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