The Act of Teaching - Softcover

Kim Metcalf; Donald Cruickshank; Deborah Bainer Jenkins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1524901946 ISBN 13: 9781524901943

Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

106,000 Students Earn Their Education Bachelor’s Degree Each Year (National Center for Education Statistics)

Give Your Students an Advantage on the Competition!

Designed for the general methods course, The Act of Teaching provides comprehensive content coverage related to understanding oneself as a teacher. It provides an understanding of one's students and how they learn and understanding of what is known about the act of teaching.   

The NEW sixth edition of The Act of Teaching:

• Contains material drawn from Educational Testing Service Praxis II Standards and INTASK studies of what pre-service teachers should know and be able to do, and National Board for Professional Teaching Standards of what competent experienced teachers are like.
• Contains the most up-to-date knowledge base about the teaching profession.
• Provides students with the explicit, step-by-step guidance needed to get them up-and-running as practitioners of the most commonly used teaching strategies: presentation, discussion, independent study, cooperative learning, discovery learning, direct instruction, and individualized instruction.
• Presents thorough and up-to-date coverage of major topics such as instructional planning, maintaining time-on-task, monitoring, questioning, assuring clarity, classroom management and assessment, and providing reinforcement and corrective feedback.
• The text emphasizes the development of concrete pedagogical skills, and includes an entire section (the "Practice Teaching Manual") with activities and application experiences to practice, evaluate, and refine one's professional performance. 

About this title

About the Author

Donald Cruickshank received his degrees from the State University College at Buffalo, NY, and University of Rochester. After stints as a teacher, coach, supervisor, and principal in the Rochester schools, as he began a college teaching and administrative career that took him to SUNY Brockport, the University of Tennessee, Wheelock College, and The Ohio State University. The author of over 100 chapters, articles, and encyclopedia entries, this is his eighth book. He is best known for his pioneering efforts in developing simulations and reflective teaching.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1524901946
• ISBN 13: 9781524901943
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 588