Product Description: This title is only available as a loose-leaf version with Pearson eText.   This book presents a practical, concise, criterion-referenced, performance-based master learning model for helping middle and secondary school teachers individualize their instruction and devote their time and attention to specific learning activities that help all students excel academically and socially...read more

Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

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.

Many new principals seek a professional guide that is simple, current, to-the-point, and enjoyable to read. A Primer for New Principals can be used by beginning principals as a personal reference for the demands of the stressful and important job. The guidelines presented in this book are grade-level neutral-intended for the principal of K-12 public, charter, or private schools. More than 100 references and recommended readings are provided.

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

Looks at the development of interdisciplinary thematic units, covering such topics as content, diversity, technology, and classroom management.

Provides an introduction to today's educational challenges and teachers' professional responsibilities, and discusses classroom environment, curriculum, planning instruction, questioning, and grouping students for learning.

A Resource Guide for Elementary School Teaching is a practical, comprehensive, and concise methods text designed to engage readers in “hands-on” and “minds-on” learning about effective teaching. Each chapter contains an abundance of application exercises on perforated pages that provide opportunities to practice what is learned and to reflect on the progress teachers are making toward their professional competence. Its rich, practical, timely topics include planning, class management (including culturally responsive classrooms), teaching strategies, integrated technology/media, assessment, and more. The user-friendly format presents readers with a valuable resource that transcends its use in college coursework alone by offering strategies that can be easily applied in elementary classrooms, and its practical approach provides hands-on activities, exercises, and strategies for student teaching and field experiences.

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Product Description: Text is appropriate for Elementary or Middle School Science Methods. This highly successful science methods text provides current sources of pedagogy, subject-matter content, and exploratory activities in science that are essential for a complete science course...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This is a revision of one of the most successful SES books, focusing on practical strategies for surviving the 1st year of teaching. Second edition includes: strengthened treatment of diversity, updated treatment of curriculum standards, and technology. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Responding to the diversity that exists in today's classrooms, Kellough attempts to enhance the teaching (and therefore learning) of individual disciplines by connecting them to both the entire curriculum and the real world...read more

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