For graduate and undergraduate courses in general K-12 methods. The new edition of this popular text clearly achieves its stated goal: to prepare prospective teachers to meet the challenges of today's changing classrooms by providing effective, practical, research-based practices in an accessible, conversational style. Material is based on a quarter-century of actual, in-classroom research that makes it possible to replace anecdotal suggestions for good teaching with solidly research-grounded strategies empirically related to positive outcomes. The author shows future teachers not only ";what"; to do to meet today's teaching challenges, but ";how"; to do it through the experiences of real teachers in real classrooms.
Gary Borich is professor and a Cissy McDaniel Parker Endowed Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. He is author of 13 books in Teacher Education and Educational Psychology, including Effective Teaching Methods: Research-Based Practice, 7e (Allyn & Bacon, 2010); Observation Skills for Effective Teaching, 6e (Allyn & Bacon, 2010) and Educational Testing and Measurement: Classroom Applications and Practice, 9e (Wiley, 2009)