Best Practices for Elementary Classrooms: What Award-Winning Teachers Do

There is no better way to learn the craft of teaching than by watching an expert teacher at work. In this sequel to Randi Stone's Best Classroom Practices, nationally recognized, award-winning elementary teachers showcase selected practices from their classroom repertoire to share with their colleagues.

Learn what it takes to build a productive, engaged community of learners from some of the nation's best teachers in their own words. This inspirational, one-stop guide covers everything from classroom management to teaching reading, writing, math, science, social studies, music, art, technology, and physical education. You will find:

- Detailed, successful teaching strategies with lists of relevant standards and materials needed
- Innovative activities, projects, lesson plans, and units of study for every content area
- Classroom strategies across the curriculum, including ideas for involving parents and ways to make inclusion work

Best Practices for Elementary Classrooms provides a wide array of excellent lessons to choose from, road-tested by your award-winning colleagues.

  Randi Stone is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She is the author of eleven books, including Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do and Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. Stone lives with her teenage daughter, Blair, in Keene, New Hampshire.