Learning to Teach - Softcover

Arends

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072321644 ISBN 13: 9780072321647

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2000

Synopsis

This best-selling text provides comprehensive coverage of general teaching methods and models. The most balanced text in its field,it covers all major teaching models plus the executive skills of teaching,namely,planning,classroom management,assessment,motivation,and use/management of time and space. This is also the most research-oriented text in its field. Each chapter opens with a discussion of the research base plus how to do action research in the classroom. The text is ideal for field-oriented courses and has over 100 pages of end-of-chapter interview,reflection,and observation activities plus four end-of-text resource handbooks on reading and using research; action research; observation,reflection,and microteaching; and Internet resources for teachers. The fourth edition has been thoroughly updated. The former chapter 3 on time and space is now part of chapter 2 on planning. Chapter 3,Classroom Motivation and Learning Communities,has been heavily revised. Chapter 6,Assessment and Evaluation,adds new material on performance and authentic assessment. A new chapter 12 covers problem-based instruction and a new chapter 13 discusses Learning Strategies. A new end-of-chapter feature,"Portfolio," provides step-by-step directions for creating and collecting a set,or portfolio,of particular artifacts and products,useful for displaying a candidate's strengths when interviewing for a teaching position. A new Resource Handbook appendix on the Internet provides valuable sites for teaching resources. New guideline notes in the text margin help student understanding.

About this title

About the Author

Richard I. Arends is currently Professor of Educational Leadership at Connecticut State University where he also served as dean of the School of Education for nine years. Prior to his coming to Connecticut, Professor Arends was on the faculty and chair of the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. in education from the University of Oregon where he was on the faculty from 1975 to 1984. A former elementary, junior high, and high school teacher, his special interests are teacher education, and organizational development, and school improvement. Professor Arends has authored or contributed to over a dozen books on education including the Second Handbook or Organization Development in Schools, Systems Change Strategies in Education, Classroom Instruction and Management and Exploring Teaching. He has worked widely with schools and universities throughout North America, in Jamaica, and in the Pacific Rim, including Australia, Samoa, Palau, and Saipan. The recipient of numerous awards, he was selected in 1989 as the outstanding teacher educator in the state of Maryland and in 1990 received the Judith Ruskin award for outstanding research in education given by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). Between 1995-97 Professor Arends held the William Allen (Boeing) Chair in the School of Education at Seattle University.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072321644
• ISBN 13: 9780072321647
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 506