On Excellence in Teaching

Learn from the world’s best education researchers, theorists, and staff developers as they present recommendations on effective instruction. The book provides a comprehensive view of instruction from a theoretical, systemic, and classroom perspective. The authors’ diverse expertise delivers a wide range of ideas and strategies.

Benefits

• Focus on outcomes by exploring the mission, learning goals, and demands of being a teacher.
• Discover what we know now through decades of research on teacher effectiveness.
• Study the art and the science of instruction and how it connects to the classification of instructional methods.
• Through research on the psychology of school subjects, learn how the science of learning can contribute to improving instruction.
• Examine the decline of the study of the arts, and consider its incompatibility with 21st century skills.
• Learn how providing honest, up-to-date information for curriculum mapping has directly impacted the roles of the teacher and learner.
• Explore metacognitive awareness, and discover how controlling your inner world can make you more effective in addressing difficult classroom situations.
• Equip yourself with four learning styles and eight motivators that can help increase student engagement.