The Skillful Teacher : The Comprehensive Resource for Improving Teaching and Learning

The latest edition of The Skillful Teacher is the comprehensive resource for all educators no matter where they are in their career. Building on decades of research, The Skillful Teacher offers evidence-based instructional strategies for today s classroom including easy-to-understand scripts and videos. The Skillful Teacher is used world-wide as a hands-on, practical guide on instruction not a theoretical perspective on education.

Written by one of the nation s leading experts in teachers professional growth, each chapter in the text addresses a different dimension of instructional practice and provides in concrete and practical terms the guidelines, tools and strategies educators can use to meet the challenges of everyday classroom life.

The seventh edition of the book has been enhanced and expanded in many ways including: acandid exploration of anti-racism and cultural competency - issues that are especially timely in our current political and social climate; an in-depth study of the power of quality feedback and its relationship to student achievement; identification of the planning decisions that can impact the quality and effectiveness of a lesson; how teachers beliefs influence student motivation and effective effort and on-line resources that provide readers greater opportunities to engage in the content and observe key instructional moves.

Jonathon Saphier is founder and president of Research for Better Teaching, Inc. (RBT), a professional development organization dedicated since 1979 to improving classroom teaching and school leadership throughout the United States and internationally. The Ministry of Education of Singapore uses Dr. Saphier s induction program for all newly hired teachers.

He has led large-scale district improvement projects forging working alliances among superintendents, teacher union leaders, and school boards in school districts such as Montgomery County, Maryland, Eugene, Oregon, and Brockton, Revere, and Attleboro in Massachusetts. He is an annual guest instructor for The Harvard Graduate School of Education s Achievement Gap Institute and is a well-known keynote speaker on high-expertise teaching, school leadership, and related education topics.

Dr. Saphier is passionate about and actively engaged in public policy efforts to close the nation s achievement gaps. His expert opinion is often requested by organizations and news outlets such as National Public Radio, and The Washington Post. In 2003, he served as a panel member for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to study the best methods for transferring well-established educational research knowledge to classroom practice.

He is an author of eight books on education, including The Skillful Teacher, now its 7th edition and used extensively in teacher and leader training programs in districts and leading institutions of higher education. Other publications include How to Bring Vision to School Improvement and John Adams Promise. Examples of recent published articles include 15 Minutes to a Transformed Lesson and Coaching, Teaching Standards, and Feedback Mark the Teacher s Road to Mastery in Learning Forward s Journal of Staff Development, and How Coaches Can Maximize Student Learning with Lucy West in Phi Delta Kappan.