effective teaching

Provides research-based strategies for working with students at risk, discussing how to identify motivate, evaluate, and connect and intervene with resistant learners.

Provides typical situations to demonstrate what works and what doesn't work in the classroom.

Hendershott, currently director of field experiences for the Schar College of Education at Ashland University, has been an administrator at an alternative high school and a juvenile facility. Here, he shows teachers and principals how to identify, understand, teach, discipline, and motivate wounded students--that is, children and adolescents who have been abused or neglected, are depressed, live in poverty, or do not have parents or other adults who play a significant role in their lives. He explains how to use service as a way to motivate students, and describes ways to work within or around school policies when providing flexibility for wounded students. There is no subject index. Annotation ?2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Louisiana-based educational author and speaker Breaux is a former curriculum coordinator and classroom teacher; she now trains and supports new teachers, trains assessors for the Louisiana Dept. of Education, and is an international presenter for the Bureau of Education and Research. The 20 chapters of her text offer new and experienced teachers, mentors, instructional coaches, and staff developers a look at 20 common teaching mistakes and how the best teachers avoid and correct them in order to take charge of themselves and their classrooms to create a calm, caring, structured learning environment. A sampling of topics: assuming students already know, engaging in power struggles, allowing for unstructured time, failing to organize, lowering expectations, neglecting priorities, being inconsistent, delaying feedback, and refusing to acknowledge mistakes. No subject index. Annotation ?2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Describes fourteen practices the author has identified as characteristic of great teachers, and discusses the benefits of learning from the most effective educators.

Examines the correlation between assessment and instruction and provides suggestions to test construction, interpretation, and application.

Describes researched-based teaching strategies for effective instruction to increase student achievement in the classroom, explaining how each strategy can be incorporated into individual classrooms, including guidelines to teach specific types of knowledge, and providing sample rubrics and resources on organization, assessment, time management, and related topics.

Describes a systematic approach to curriculum, assessment, instruction, and learning called the achievement cycle--the close interactive relationships of four key elements: standards-based curricula, performance evaluation, assessment-driven instruction (ADI), and authentic learning.

Provides strategies for improving student learning, covering curriculum, planning for instruction, varied assessments, and criterion-based feedback and includes comments from teachers who have successfully used the strategies discussed.

Provides an overview of career opportunities in the twenty-first century in teaching, and discusses education and training.