Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies

By Donna E. Walker Tileston and Donna Walker Tileston

Book Overview

Praise for the First Edition:
"Tileston explains the importance of an enriched and emotionally supportive climate, a wide repertoire of teaching techniques, the critical element of connections or transfers in learning, and the role of memory in making learning more meaningful, motivating, and challenging work."
CHOICE, July 2001

Enable all students to realize their greatest learning potential

The biggest challenge a teacher can face is an uninspired student. In Ten Best Teaching Practices, Second Edition, Donna Walker Tileston provides the classroom teacher with a practical guide to inspiring, motivating, and therefore educating even the most unenthusiastic students. This exciting update of the original classic details the fundamentals of differentiated teaching strategies, teaching for long-term memory, collaborative learning, higher-order thinking skills, technology integration, and much more. Instructors will use ten highly practiced teaching methods proven to facilitate learning in all students.

Ten Best Teaching Practices, Second Edition includes:

Examples illustrating how each teaching practice can be employed in a practical environment Tips on how to encourage students to incorporate self-motivation in their own learning through personal goals Detailed analysis on how the brain absorbs learning Mentoring guidelines that will help even the most challenged students Helpful graphics illustrating the essential points of these practices Tileston incorporates brain research, learning styles information, and the issues of standards into a highly effective classroom instructional model. Once you implement these tried-and-true practices, you may wonder how you ever got along without them

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412914728
• ISBN13: 9781412914727
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Corwin
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great ideas!

This book has a lot of great research and great ideas for implementation for the classroom. I really enjoyed this book.

Great for new teachers

This book has some very interesting facts about teaching and will be a great asset to any new or older teachers library. It gives new ideas about the changing times of children and the way they should be taught.

A Teaching Essential for New and Veteran Teachers

Do you want to change the education system or just improve your teaching? This book is for you. In this short book (83 pages), Donna Walker Tileston had distilled the essential elements 10 research-based teaching practices that will transform student achievement. You will learn how to incorporate brain research findings of Eric Jensen and others with learning styles and learning standards to create a framework for teaching any subject area. Each chapter includes a list of assessment tools and indicators of success. This is very helpful in developing powerful learning lessons and applying the 10 practices in the classroom. This book is my teaching bible. It is helping me become the teacher my students need and want. Put this one next to Harry Wong's, 1st Days of School, Fay and Funk's, Teaching with Love and Logic. Essential for every new teacher. This is a book you will wear out.