A Resource Guide for Elementary School Teaching: Planning for Competence (5th Edition) - Softcover

Richard D. Kellough

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130278440 ISBN 13: 9780130278449

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2001

Synopsis

A Resource Guide for Elementary School Teaching is a practical, comprehensive, and concise methods book designed to engage readers in “hands-on” and “minds-on” learning about effective teaching. A four-part organization covers an orientation to elementary school teaching and learning; planning for instruction; strategies, aids, media, and resources for effective instruction; assessment and professional development. A new chapter on elementary school children discusses their development and their diversity—and specific strategies for working with them. For active and future teachers at the elementary school level.

About this title

From the Publisher

This popular elementary methods text is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow resource whose wealth of information for improving classroom instruction makes it so much more than a textbook. The new edition has been thoroughly redone, to better help students meet the enormous challenges facing elementary teachers today in such areas as multicultural teaching, national curriculum standards, thematic teaching, cooperative learning, technology in schools, authentic assessment, and the professional employability portfolio. Joined with this excellent new coverage, and still the core of the text, are a wealth of applications--oriented, informal "practice teaching" activities--that get students involved in situations much like those they will encounter on-the-job. The authors offer thorough coverage of strategy implementation, instructional planning, legal issues, classroom management, discipline, and evaluation of both students and their teachers. By combining this strong coverage with hands-on exercises and a workbook-style format, A Resource Guide for Elementary School Teaching, Third Edition again provides an outstanding vehicle for starting students on their way to successful teaching.

From the Back Cover

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.

Features new to the fifth edition include:

• Sample projects and resources for service learning that reflect national efforts to help children connect academic learning, personal growth, and a sense of civic responsibility
• A new chapter on elementary school children, their development and their diversity, and specific strategies for working with them
• Instructional scenarios and classroom vignettes that serve as additional springboards for thinking and class discussion
• A companion website at www.prenhall.com/kellough

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130278440
• ISBN 13: 9780130278449
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 445