Learning to Teach, Richard I. Arends 9th Edition

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Book Detail 

Paperback: 608 pages

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 9 edition (January 31, 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0078024323

ISBN-13: 978-0078024320

File Size : 9.43 Mb | File Format : PDF

Book Description 

This best-selling text provides comprehensive coverage of general teaching methods and models. The most balanced text in its field, Learning to Teach strikes a harmony by integrating researched-based foundations with practical consideration and opportunity for real world application. The text provides strong coverage of both teacher-centered and student-centered models. By covering all major teaching models plus the leadership skills of teaching, including planning, classroom management, assessment, motivation, and management of time and space, Learning to Teach helps future teachers master both the theory and application of successful teaching.

About the Author

Richard I. Arends is Professor of Educational Leadership and Dean Emeritus at Connecticut State University where he served as Dean of the School of Education and Interim Provost of Academic Affair from 1991-2004. Before going to Connecticut he was on the faculty and chair of the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park. Richard Arends received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon where he was on the faculty from 1975 to 1983. A former elementary, middle school, and high school teacher, his special interests are teaching, teacher education, organization development and school improvement. He has worked widely with schools and universities throughout North America, in Jamaica, and in the Pacific Rim, including Australia, Samoa, Palau, and Saipan. Professor Arends has authored or contributed to over a dozen books on education including the Second Handbook or Organization Development in Schools, Systems Change Strategies in Education, Exploring Teaching, and Learning to Teach. The latter is now in its 8th edition and has been translated into several foreign languages. The recipient of numerous awards, he was selected in 1989 as the outstanding teacher educator in the state of Maryland and in 1990 received the Judith Ruskin Award for outstanding research in education given by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). From 1995-97 Professor Arends held the William Allen (Boeing) Endowed Chair Boeing in the School of Education at Seattle University. Currently, he is retired in Portland, Oregon where he pursues favorite projects and continues to write.

Brief of Contents 

Part 1 Teaching and Learning in Today’s Classrooms
Chapter 1 The Scientific Basis for the Art of Teaching
Chapter 2 Student Learning in Diverse Classrooms

Part 2 The Leadership Aspects of Teaching
Chapter 3 Teacher Planning
Chapter 4 Learning Communities and Student Motivation
Chapter 5 Classroom Management
Chapter 6 Assessment and Evaluation

Part 3 Overview of Teacher-Centered Transmission Models of Teaching
Chapter 7 Presenting and Explaining
Chapter 8 Direct Instruction
Chapter 9 Concept and Inquiry-Based Teaching

Part 4 Overview of Student-Centered Constructivist Models of Teaching
Chapter 10 Cooperative Learning
Chapter 11 Problem-Based Learning
Chapter 12 Classroom Discussion
Chapter 13 Connecting the Models and Differentiating Instruction

Part 5 The Organizational Aspects of Teaching
Chapter 14 School Leadership and Collaboration
Handbook 1 Reading and Using Research
Handbook 2 Using Learning to Teach to Prepare for the PRAXIS II™: Principles of Learning and Teaching Exam

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