PEARSON EDUCATION Effective Teaching Methods with Bridges Activity Book

For graduate and undergraduate courses in general K-12 methods. The new edition of this popular text clearly achieves its stated goal: to prepare prospective teachers to meet the challenges of today's changing classrooms by providing effective, practical, research-based practices in an accessible, conversational style. Material is based on a quarter-century of actual, in-classroom research that makes it possible to replace anecdotal suggestions for good teaching with solidly research-grounded strategies empirically related to positive outcomes. The author shows future teachers not only “what” to do to meet today's teaching challenges, but “how” to do it, through the experiences of real teachers in real classrooms. From the Back Cover This practical K-12 general methods text continues to offer a strong research base and coverage of topics from instructional strategies to classroom management supported by authentic arid traditional assessment techniques. The new edition offers even more of a the practical coverage future, teachers need with new chapter case studies that offer Praxis II practice questions, and a new Video Window feature illustrating best practices. New to This Edition Chapter Case History and Practice Test Preparation exercises are tied to chapter content and prepare students to take the Praxis II exam. The Video Window feature provides unrehearsed classroom footage to help students identify and implement best practices. Increased coverage of the impact of standardized testing on classroom teachers helps future teachers better prepare their students to succeed. About the Author Gary Borich grew up on the south side of Chicago, where he attended Mendel High School, and later taught in the public school system of Niles, Illinois. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University, where he was director of evaluation at the Institute for Child Study. Dr. Borich is a member of the College of Education faculty at the University of Texas at Austin and a past member of the Board of Examiners of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. Dr. Borich's other books include Observation Skills for Effective Teaching, Fourth Edition; Educational Assessment for the Elementary and Middle School Classroom, Second Edition (with M. Tombari); Clearly Outstanding: Making Each Day Count in Your Classroom; Becoming a Teacher. An Inquiring Dialogue for the Beginning Teacher; Educational Psychology: A Contemporary Approach, Second Edition (with M. Tombari); and Educational Testing and Measurement, Seventh Edition (with T. Kubiszyn). Dr. Borich lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Kathy, and his two children, Brandy and Damon. His interests include training and riding Arabian horses.