Teaching for Student Learning: Becoming an Accomplished Teacher

ISBN-13: 9780415998888 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 456 str.

Richard I. Arends;Ann Kilcher

Opis

This book is directed at university and school-based teacher educators who work at the graduate level or who provide instruction to in-service teachers. It illustrates how they can move their teaching from novice to expert status by integrating both research and the wisdom of practice into their teaching. It also emphasizes the complexity of teaching and learning and shows how, over time, accomplished teachers can acquire and apply a broad repertoire of evidence-based teaching practices in the support of student learning.

The book’s content stems from three major fields of study: 1) theories and research on how people learn, including new insights from the cognitive and neurosciences; 2) research on effective classroom practices, particularly those shown to have the greatest effect on student learning; and 3) research on effective schooling, defined as school-level factors that enhance student achievement and success. Although the major focus of the book will be on teaching, it will devote considerable space to describing how students learn and how the most effective and widely-used models of teaching connect to principles of student learning. Specifically, it will describe how research on teaching, cognition, and neuroscience converge to provide an evidence-based "science of learning" which teachers can use to advance their practice.