Learning to Teach - Softcover

Arends, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071132015 ISBN 13: 9780071132015

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions), 1993

Synopsis

The third edition of this leading text continues its mission of providing comprehensive coverage of general teaching methods and models. It is ideally suited for programs requiring a two-course general methods sequence. Arends devotes six chapters (Part I) to classroom leadership functions, six chapters (Part II) to instructional models, and two chapters (Part III) to teachers' school-wide rolls. A lengthy section in Chapters 2-15, entitled "Sampling the Research Base," examines some of the principal research that supports the recommended teaching practices found in the latter half of these chapters. In addition, each chapter contains a boxed summary of a classic research study, to give students an idea of how the knowledge base on teaching is formed. Over 100 pages of structured observation, interview, and reflection guides are provided at the end of chapters. Together with the general observation guidelines found in the Resource Handbook, they constitute an interactive field guide that assists students in gathering and interpreting data and in reflecting on their own related context. While most texts focus almost entirely on isolated models and skills of teaching, this one also emphasises the social context that surrounds and influences teaching. Changes in this edition include separate chapters on classroom discussion and inquiry teaching. Much new material has also been added to the chapter on teaching in multicultural and mainstreamed classrooms and to the assessment chapter, which introduces new discussions of alternative assessment, authentic assessment and portfolio development. More material on cognitive / constructivist views of teaching and learning have been integrated throughout the text. Finally, two new supplements, a student study guide and a casebook, have been added to the teaching package.

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From the Publisher

FREE STUDENT MANUAL: Each copy of the fifth edition comes with a free student workbook, Learning Aids for Planning, Observation, and Portfolio, which includes over 100 pages of structured observation, interview, and reflection guides, along with portfolio exercises.
FREE STUDENT CD: Each copy of the fifth edition comes with a free Student CD-ROM called Making the Grade. The free CD includes a learning styles assessment, an Internet primer, a Guide to Electronic Research, a study skills primer, a link to the Learning to Teach Online Learning Center Web site, and 15-25 test questions per chapter with feedback.
ENHANCED DESIGN: The fifth edition is much friendlier and student-oriented with a new, inviting, open, one-column design.
REFLECTIVE: A new, engaging chapter opening feature, Reflections On', prompts the student to think about their own experiences related to the chapter material to follow.
EXPERT: Comprehensive and balanced, the text expertly covers all major teaching models.
ADDED FEATURES: New features include Tailoring Teaching for Diversity boxes which describe how to adapt instruction for students with special needs and Spotlight on Technology boxes which highlight how technology can be used to enhance the chapter's topic. New Check for Understanding sections at the end of each chapter section provide brief reviews of content for the student. New notes in the text margin throughout the chapters help students focus on the most important material.
CASES: Each chapter-ending Reflection and Portfolio section includes a brief case that asks the student to reflect on it based on the chapter's content. In-service teacher reflections on the case are provided as well.
UPDATED: Each chapter has been updated with 50 to 100 new references.
INCLUSION & MULTICULTURALISM: Much more care has been taken with Chapter 4, now called 'The Inclusive and Multicultural Classroom.' Much more and newer content has been included in this chapter.
CHAPTER CHANGES: Former Chapters 14 and 15 have been combined into new Chapter 13, now called 'School Leadership and Collaboration' in response to user feedback. Former Chapter 13 on Learning Strategies was shortened and moved to the Resource Handbook at the end of the text.
KNOWLEDGE BASE: Theoretical and Empirical Support sections in each chapter provide a broad sampling of the knowledge base that underlies and supports the recommended teaching practices found in the latter part of each chapter. Students are shown why a recommended procedure or principle works the way it does, not just how to execute it effectively. Learning to Teach remains the most research-based text in the field.
RESCOURCE HANDBOOK: The easily referenced 30-page Resource Handbook at the end of the book provides detailed information on (1) Reading and Using Research, (2) Action Research for Classroom Teachers, and (3) Learning and Study Strategies.
COMPING GUIDELINE: Well-respected text and author, a 'known quantity' class act that most general methods professors will be interested in.
BOOK'S POSITION: Comprehensive, research-based best-seller; first-class coverage of all major teaching models plus planning, classroom management, assessment, motivation, and use/management of time and space.

About the Author

Richard I. Arends es profesor de liderazgo educativo y Director Emérito en la Central Connecticut State University, donde fungió como Director de la School of Education y Administrador Interino de Asuntos Académicos desde 1991 hasta 2004

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions)
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071132015
• ISBN 13: 9780071132015
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 568