Product Description

TEACHING STRATEGIES: A GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION, 9th Edition, is known for its practical, applied help with commonly used classroom teaching strategies and tactics. Perfect for anyone studying education or involved in a site-based teacher education program, the book focuses on topics such as lesson-planning, questioning, and small-group and cooperative-learning strategies. The book is known for its solid coverage of teaching strategies and applications, and the new edition continues on in this tradition, with even more teaching applications and an engaging feature that highlights real-life voices from the field.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18512 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

Review
"This text has been a perennial best seller and one that I have used countless times. The manuscript for the next edition is very well written and current. I have identified only a handful of topics that I would like to see added".

About the Author
Donald Orlich is Professor Emeritus with the Science Mathematics Engineering Education Center at Washington State University. He has been active in public education since 1955 and has directed numerous in-service education projects relating to the improvement of instruction. On March 16, 2001, he was honored by the 160,000-member Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development with their "Outstanding Affiliate Article Award. In 2003, the University of Montana honored him with the Educational Leadership Excellence Award.

Robert J. Harder is director of International Programs and Professor of Education at Washington State University. His current focus is the internationalization of higher education through education, research, and extension partnerships. He is the author of many monographs and articles.

Richard C. Callahan is president of Callahan Associates, a consulting firm that provides organizational development and proposal management to major corporations. Prior to entering the private sector, he taught at Washington State University. For the past decade, he has provided assessment and evaluation training and technical assistance to many school districts in the Northwest. He has published widely on issues of student assessment, program evaluation, applied measurement, and large-scale testing.

Michael Trevisan is professor and director of the Assessment and Evaluation Center in the College of Education at Washington State University. For the past decade, he has provided assessment and evaluation training and technical assistance to many school districts in the Northwest. He is published widely on issues of student assessment, program evaluation, applied measurement and large scale testing.

Abbie Brown is an associate professor in the College of Education at East Carolina University. His interests include instructional design/technology, instructional media production, and educational uses of the Internet. He is an experienced classroom teacher and is co-author of a number of books including, Making the Most of the Web in Your Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis, Pages, and Sites (2008); The Essentials of Instructional Design (2006); Technology and the Diverse Learner (2004); and Multimedia Projects in the Classroom (2002).

Customer Reviews

Classroom overview
This text has several positives. It discusses how to plan, deliver, and assess a lesson. It incorporates issues such as multiple intelligences, emotional issues, cultural issues and so on. It gives the upcoming teacher a lot to mull over.

Another huge bonus is that the book is linked to the publisher's web site with videos from real classrooms and real teachers. You can actually see and hear the ideas in action. For me, that made a huge difference.

The down side that I found with this book is that the authors sometimes got lost in the details. What I mean by that is sometimes it was hard to understand how all the ideas, theories and processes were supposed to work together. I lost the big picture at times. The videos did help greatly with sorting that out though. However, there were places where I never felt like I totally got the big pictue. I would have liked to have more video clips.

Learned a lot from this book.

Terrible
I was assigned this book for a teaching certification course and I have never seen a worse textbook in my life. It's full of long lists of terms that are never explained. The visuals are confusing. It's incredibly wordy. I think the same information could easily be condensed down to a short pamplett if they just took out all of the redundancy.

Clear and well organized
I purchased this book to use in a course on Learning Theory and Instructional Design and have found it to be perfect for my needs. Each chapter is well organized and provides an extensive bibliography with internet as well as print resources. The authors use charts and graphs to identify specific important concepts and provide reflective questions that can help the user organize their own knowledge base with the material presented. Good overall text covering planning and executing instruction.