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

Meeting the needs of sound byte kids

Discover the ten practices that are essential to making education meaningful and rich for all students. This book takes a careful look at brain research and shows how it can be applied to the classroom. It incorporates information about learning styles and standards into a classroom instructional model that all teachers can use. The best practices explored herein have yielded positive results and have stood the test of time in real classrooms. These results underscore that topnotch teaching and learning is possible in all schools.

Learn how to:

Create an enriched and emotionally supportive environment Use a variety of teaching strategies that address student learning styles Help students make connections from prior learning and experiences Integrate higher-level thinking skills into the learning situation Use a variety of assessments that authenticate the learning

Collaboration, real-world applications, and the quality use of technology are all part of the equation for successful teaching and learning. And now it′s easier than ever to know what to look for in the classroom and to assess if good teaching is really taking place. This book supplies the measuring stick for that assessment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761975853
• ISBN13: 9780761975854
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Corwin
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.5" 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.