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WestEd is a research, development, and service agency working with
education and other communities to promote excellence, achieve
equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults. Drawing
on the best knowledge from research and…

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”)…

Our original interests in the integration of diversity into the psychology curricu- lum developed along converging paths. As new teachers of psychology, we both discovered that our widely-used textbooks contained little or no scholarship on women or…

This book is for anyone who is interested in teaching. It started as an attempt to map out and summarize reliable knowledge about teaching and how it functions to aid learning. It was written, in the first place, mainly for students training to…

The Government’s recent agenda for inclusion in schools and the focus on preventing and reducing exclusions has further raised awareness as to the specific needs of students with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. Many mainstream…

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…

Thank you for purchasing this book. It means that you
are interested in learning how to be a more effective
teacher of science. That’s an outstanding goal!
Science education in the United States today needs your
help. Our students are…

This book is about the teacher’s role as curricular-instructional gatekeeper and its ramifications for social studies curriculum, instructional planning, teaching, and teacher education. As gate- keepers, teachers make the educational decisions in…

The intended audience for this book is the novice teach- er. The authors hope that this book will start teachers on their journey across the bridge of practice and experi- ence to the other side; that of master teacher. However, the topics discussed…

You probably teach very well without recognizing that, often, the more teaching, the less learning. Our job in adult education is not to cover a set of course materials, but to engage adults in effective and significant learning.