Strategies for Teachers: Teaching Content and Thinking Skills - Hardcover

Eggen, Paul D.; Etc.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0138515778 ISBN 13: 9780138515775

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1988

Synopsis

*Designed for courses in Curriculum and Instruction such as Models of Teaching, Approaches to Instruction, and General Methods. *Provides a comprehensive description of seven different teaching strategies, each illustrated in specific detail with case studies based on actual K-12 classroom teaching episodes. *Focuses on active learning, the use of research, psychology and experience, and emphasizes the teacher's central role in the learning process.

About this title

About the Author:

PAUL EGGEN

Paul has worked in higher education for thirty-eight years. He is a consultant for public schools and colleges in his university service area and has provided support to teachers in twelve different states. Paul has also worked with teachers in international schools in twenty-three countries, including Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, Central America, South America, and Europe. He has published several articles in national journals, is the co-author or co-editor of six other books, and presents regularly at national and international

conferences.

 

Paul is strongly committed to public education. His wife is a middle school teacher in a public school, and his two children are graduates of public schools and state universities.

 

 

 

DON KAUCHAK

Don has taught and worked in schools and in higher education in nine different states for thirty-five years. He has published in a number of scholarly journals, including the Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Teacher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Phi Delta Kappan, and Educational Leadership. In addition to this text, he has co-authored or co-edited six other books on education. He has also been a principal investigator on federal and state grants examining teacher development and evaluation practices, and he presents regularly at the American Educational Research Association. He currently volunteer-tutors first-, second-, and third-graders in a local elementary school.

 

Don strongly believes in the contribution that public schools make to our democracy, and his two children benefited greatly from their experiences in state-supported K–12

schools and public institutions of higher education.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0138515778
• ISBN 13: 9780138515775
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 302