Author Keith Roscoe is a former K-12 teacher and professor of education with forty-five years of experience as an educator, teaching a variety of subjects, in diverse education settings, in the U.K., USA, and Canada. He is also an authority on curriculum, assessment and classroom management, and the author of three previous books, Curriculum and Instruction: First Steps Towards Effective Teaching, Developing Scientific Literacy, and Scientific Literacy for Canadian Students. Keith has helped hundreds of both new and experienced teachers become more effective in the classroom, and wrote this book to help teachers and their students achieve success in today's classrooms.