K-12 Classroom Teaching: A Primer for New Professionals, Second Edition
by Andrea M. Guillaume
Category: Education

A true nuts-and-bolts general K-12 methods text, "K-12 Classroom Teaching: A Primer for New Professionals" is a core text for pre-service teachers who are taking introduction to teaching courses, field experience courses, or general methods courses. It is also a quick but thorough core text for alternative certification teachers. Its clear, reader-friendly language helps readers explore key aspects of classroom teaching including the context of teaching today, strategies for learning about students, planning and assessment, instruction and instructional strategies, classroom management, and professional growth. Features of the Text: Warm-Up Exercises help readers reflect on their existing knowledge base related to major points explored in each chapter. Teaching Tips are boxed features that provide practical classroom applications. Words from Teachers are actual teacher voices that offer advice and writing samples, including daily schedule structures and sample stances. Web Site "notations" are integrated and provide connections to professional organizations and instructionally related resources and materials. Opportunities to Practice conclude each chapter and extend readers' connections with the content and real-world teaching. In addition to the application exercises, readers will also discover this "second edition" to be replete with blank observation guides, lesson plan forms, assessment, and management plans. Fast Facts provide statistical information from across the nation in a boxed feature found in several chapters.