Observation Skills Effective Teaching - Softcover

Borich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0675209277 ISBN 13: 9780675209274

Publisher: Longman Higher Education, 1990

Synopsis

The fifth edition of Observation Skills for Effective Teaching  focuses on observing others and incorporating the best of what you see and hear into you own practice - one of the principal means by which you can become an effective and professional teacher.

 

Using this text, you will learn to observe in the following eight areas: learning climate, classroom management, lesson clarity, instructional variety, task orientation, student engagement, student success, and higher thought processes.  These eight areas have been found by researchers to be related to desirable cognitive, social and emotional outcomes in learners.

 

This book will also teach you how to decide what to observe, how to effectively and efficiently observe in the classroom, and how to apply what you have learned through observation to grow as a reflective teacher.  In addition, the book provides methodological concepts, observation instruments, and dialogues designed to help you see and practice research-based patterns of effective teaching. 

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Observation Skills for Effective Teaching, Fifth Edition

 

Gary D. Borich

 

 

Do you want to begin developing the skills and competencies you need to become an effective, accountable teacher?

 

The fifth edition of Observation Skills for Effective Teaching focuses on one of the principal means by which you can become an effective and professional teacher–by observing others and incorporating the best of what you see and hear into you own practice. 

 

Using this text, you will learn to observe in the following eight areas found by researchers to be related to desirable cognitive, social and emotional outcomes in learners: learning climate, classroom management, lesson clarity, instructional variety, task orientation, student engagement, student success, and higher thought processes. 

 

This book will also teach you how to decide what to observe, how to effectively and efficiently observe in the classroom, and how to apply what you have learned through observation to grow as a reflective teacher.  In addition, the book provides methodological concepts, observation instruments, and dialogues designed to help you see and practice research-based patterns of effective teaching. 

 

 

New to this Edition:

• Closer alignment with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) and the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) though updated end-of-chapter activities help you learn and practice chapter content
• For More Information at the end of each chapter expands your understanding of instructional media and technology
•  Recent findings on teaching culturally diverse students prepare you for the challenges of today’s classrooms.

 

Related books from Merrill Education

• Effective Teaching Methods: Research-Based Practice, Sixth Edition, Gary D. Borich, ISBN 0-13-171496-1

About the Author:

Gary Borich grew up on the south side of Chicago, where he attended Mendel High School and later taught in the public school system of Niles, Illinois. He received his doctoral degree from Indiana University, where he was director of evaluation at the Institute for Child Study. Dr. Borich is professor of Educational Psychology and a Cissy McDaniel Parker Endowed Fellow in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin and past member of the Board of Examiners of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. Dr. Borich’s other books include Effective Teaching Methods, Seventh Edition; Educational Assessment for the Elementary and Middle School Classroom, Second Edition (with M. Tombari); Clearly Outstanding: Making Each Day Count in Your Classroom; Becoming a Teacher: An Inquiring Dialogue for the Beginning Teacher; Educational Psychology: A Contemporary Approach, Second Edition (with M. Tombari); Educational Testing and Measurement, Ninth Edition (with T. Kubiszyn); and The Appraisal of Teaching: Concepts and Process; and Teacher Behavior and Pupil Self Concept. Dr. Borich lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Kathy, and children, Brandy and Damon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Longman Higher Education
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0675209277
• ISBN 13: 9780675209274
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 361