The Lesson Planning Handbook: Essential Strategies That Inspire Student Thinking and Learning

Peter Brunn draws from his own teaching experience as well as years of classroom research with hundreds of teachers across the country to bring you the steps, strategies, and structures successful teachers use to organize and manage their lessons so that you, too, can experience success with every lesson you teach.

• Describes the ten qualities of effective teaching.
• Outlines a five-step lesson-planning process.
• Showcases effective teaching techniques: cooperative structures, open-ended questions, wait time, team-building activities, class meetings, turn and talk, writer's notebook, and the read-aloud.

As Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, Carl Anderson is the leader of the world's largest fraternal organization of Catholic laymen. Named by Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II to several Vatican commissions, Anderson is a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family, the Pontifical Council for the Laity, and the Pontifical Academy for Life, and is a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.