Presents chapters on different aspects of teaching, each with exercises, tests, and references to applicable resources.

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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.

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.

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.

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