Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies

Discover the ten practices that are essential to making education meaningful and rich for all students. This book takes a careful look at brain research and shows how it can be applied to the classroom. It incorporates information about learning styles and standards into a classroom instructional model that all teachers can use. The best practices explored herein have yielded positive results and have stood the test of time in real classrooms. These results underscore that topnotch teaching and learning is possible in all schools.

Learn how to:

• Create an enriched and emotionally supportive environment
• Use a variety of teaching strategies that address student learning styles
• Help students make connections from prior learning and experiences
• Integrate higher-level thinking skills into the learning situation
• Use a variety of assessments that authenticate the learning

Collaboration, real-world applications, and the quality use of technology are all part of the equation for successful teaching and learning. And now it′s easier than ever to know what to look for in the classroom and to assess if good teaching is really taking place. This book supplies the measuring stick for that assessment.

Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin′s bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com