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Ten Best Teaching Practices : How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies
Ten Best Teaching Practices How Brain Research Learning Styles and Standards Define Teaching Competencies Author:Donna E Walker Tileston Meeting the needs of sound byte kids!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 stan... more »dards 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.« less