The essential bag of tools for teaching the standards-based curriculum for higher-level student learning and achievement!

This concise collection of effective teaching strategies will be an invaluable guide for every teacher who knows that the way we teach is just as important as what we teach. Chapters cover:

• Making good decisions about instructional objectives
• Teaching tools for beginning activities
• Teaching tools for working with declarative information: vocabulary, facts, data, and more
• Teaching tools for procedural activities: constructing models, using procedural knowledge, and more
• Thinking tools and graphic organizers
• Verbal tools such as brainstorming, Socratic seminars, real world applications, and more
• Guidelines for lesson planning
• Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
• Bibliography and Index

About the Author
Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna's publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin's bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A & M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com


Book Information
ISBN 9780761931218
Author Donna E. Walker Tileston
Format Paperback
Page Count 136
Imprint Corwin Press Inc
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
Weight(grams) 210g