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Throughout my educational career, I have had the opportunity to be a “pro- fessional gypsy.” I taught self-contained elementary grades 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , and 6. I also taught a combined third and fourth grade class (today known as “multi- age”)…

The mandate to expand and improve science education for the 21st century is global and strong. Implementing these changes, however, is very complicated given that science education is dynamic, continually incorporating new ideas, practices, and…

So you want to be a successful online teacher—you are to be commended! Being a great teacher comes naturally to a select few. Others of us spend years fine tuning our craft, seeking additional learning and education, reflecting on our practice, and…

This book is written at a time when widening participation in post- compulsory education seems to be undergoing something of a renaissance. It is therefore necessary to seize this opportunity to ensure that the nature of post-16 learning…

A fter law school and the bar exam, I went to work at a Wall Street law firm in the fall of 1992. I was struck by the fact that, with few exceptions, the more senior lawyers in the firm didn't have a clue about how to manage people my age.

I T HAS BECOME a cliché to say that education is in “crisis.” But it is true: A deep sense of crisis pervades discussions of education in the United States. Perhaps most distressingly, the crisis appears to be chronic. Reports in the mass media,…

This book was written as an introduction to instruction in higher educa- tion. The work, written as companion to The Psychology of Teaching an Learning: A Three-Step Approach (Martinez-Pons, 2001), concentrates on the roles instructors and students…

We have tried to put down in one place, in an organized fashion, much of what we have
come to believe about how to teach effectively for thinking. /// The organizing ideas for
the entire volume come from Sternberg's triarchic (3-part) theory of…

One way and another, this book has been more than 30 years in the making. Even if I were to try to remember all of those people who have contributed to it, and to record what they have done, I do not think that I would come close to acknowledging all…

T he study of instruction is complex, concerned as it is with contextual and substantive matters ranging as far and wide as political, economic, social and psychological processes;
administrators' and teachers' capabilities; program planning and…