Focused Teaching: Better Learning: First Steps Towards Effective Lesson Design, Assessment, Instruction, and Classroom Management

Focused Teaching: Better Learning will show you how to plan lessons that have activities, assessments, teaching strategies aligned with curriculum standards. For new and experienced teachers alike, the book combines tested information from the research literature with information from the author's own research and teaching experiences, and incorporates feedback and ideas from professors and beginning and experienced teachers who used earlier editions of the book. Why this particular book? How is it different from other books on teaching methods? Here are some of the features of Focused Teaching: Better Learning.•It's a straightforward and up-to-date guide to planning and teaching lessons across the curriculum, at all levels of education (K-12 and post-secondary).•It devotes detailed attention to topics critical for success in the classroom, but often underemphasized in similar books, with substantive chapters on classroom management, assessment, and lesson planning.•It limits theory to a need-to-know basis, and provides the practical suggestions, clear explanations, and detailed examples that teachers need.•It takes a holistic integrated view of the teacher's interconnected classroom functions of planning, assessment, instruction, and classroom management.•It's a user-friendly resource with appropriate readability, a Glossary, a clear organization, easy navigation, and an accompanying website with downloads and an author blog.Focused Teaching: Better Learning is a reasonably priced, user-friendly book, tailored to educators’ busy lives. It will offer you fresh insights on how to focus teaching and learning by applying a few well-founded principles and "rules of thumb" to a wide range of practical strategies.