Effective Teaching Methods: Research-based Practice

About this book

For graduate and undergraduate courses in general K-12 methods. The new edition of this popular text clearly achieves its stated goal: to prepare prospective teachers to meet the challenges of todays changing classrooms by providing effective practical research-based practices in an accessible conversational style. Material is based on a quarter-century of actual in-classroom research that makes it possible to replace anecdotal suggestions for good teaching with solidly research-grounded strategies empirically related to positive outcomes. The author shows future teachers not only ";what"; to do to meet todays teaching challenges but ";how"; to do it through the experiences of real teachers in real classrooms.