Best Practices for High School Classrooms: What Award-Winning Secondary Teachers Do [Paperback]

This practical, step-by-step teaching approach provides the keys to transforming your classroom from teacher-focused to student-focused.

 

This practical, step-by-step teaching approach provides the keys to transforming your classroom from teacher-focused to student-focused.

 

This book will be very helpful to new teachers and may motivate experienced teachers to expand their craft. It would be a useful addition to any high school professional collection, as it offers practical, down-to-earth advice, while highlighting innovative and exciting teaching methods. The state standards correlation sections are particularly beneficial.  

This book is a priceless tool not only for teachers, but also for mentors and administrators who responsibilities are to provide professional growth.  

For those seeking practical activities that have been tested in actual high school classrooms, Stones book is just what the teacher ordered. Written in conversational style by award-winning teachers, this book does what the Internet and discipline-specific teachers organizations fail to do: it consolidates exemplary teaching practices on diverse topics from various academic fields into one easy-to-read resource. Preface
About the Author
About the Contributors
1. Award-Winning Words of Wisdom
2. Succeeding With Reading and Writing Instruction
3. Succeeding With Mathematics Instruction
4. Exploring Science, Math, and Technology
5. Threading Technology through the Curriculum
6. Considering Special Needs
7. Teaching Social Studies and Geography in the High School Grades
8. Looking at Visual Arts and Physical Education
9. Topic Smorgasbord: Sharing More Key High School Issues and Perspectil#K