effective teaching

"Building on the success of her classic, bestselling book, Change Your Questions, Change Your Life (over 100,000 copies sold), Marilee Adams shows in this new book how teachers and other education professionals can change their own and their students' lives by developing an active, inquiring mindset and igniting a lifelong love of learning"--Provided by publisher.

Find out how a simple, practical checklist can help you cut through the clutter of information to make more deliberate, thoughtful decisions in your everyday practice. This book presents a checklist of 12 daily touchstones that can help educators take the right actions, engage in more thoughtful behaviors, and stay focused on the hallmarks of effective instruction.

Offers teaching strategies for secondary math teachers, covering effective instructional practices, using textbooks, designing lessons, assessment, professional growth, and other related topics.

We do not seek to destroy the positive contributions of the arts and sciences of the modern era; we do not propose dismantling schools and social institutions. However, we do propose a critical and constructive postmodern philosophy as an alternative way of looking at the world and thinking about teaching and learning.

Provides tools and advice for educators to use explicit instruction for efficient classroom teaching, explaining how to identify and design effective lessons around key concepts, and including samples of lesson plans, reproducible checklists, and teacher worksheets.

Examines research in the education field, revealing the latest developments that are revolutionizing education in the United States and changing the ways students learn in the classroom.

Presents a discussion of intellectual character as it is nurtured in schools, examines the practices of teachers who promote thinking dispositions and intellectual character development through daily routines, expectations, encouragement, and classroom relationships, and offers advice on how to get started teaching for intellectual character.