effective teaching

Explains the cognitive and biological basis for learning and provides insight on how teachers can use story, emotion, memory, context, and routine to improve student knowledge and the learning experience.

A guide to using informative assessment to improve instruction and student learning, covering routine, reflective, and rigorous informative assessment and providing strategies for implementing them in the classroom.

"Authors from the Buck Institute for Education explore seven Project Based Teaching practices that help teachers support student success and Gold Standard project-based learning" --.

Presents practical information to help teachers lead students in envisioning themselves achieving success, use questions that encourage creative thinking, and listen to students in a supportive way, and includes stories and examples that show how to use words correctly and effectively in order to reinforce positive results in students.

Describes twenty strategies teachers may use to engage students' brains in the learning process, based on the findings of learning style theorists and neuroscientists, including the use of humor and stories, the incorporation of games in lessons, singing and dancing, and others.