Teaching with Purpose: Closing the Research-Practice Gap - Softcover

Penick, John E.; Harris, Robin Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873552415 ISBN 13: 9780873552417

Publisher: Natl Science Teachers Assn, 2006

Synopsis

The best science teachers don't just get up in front of the class and start talking. They draw from a plan, a rationale, a purpose. This book helps you create and implement a detailed, research-based teaching rationale that works even with students of varied needs in less-than-ideal facilities. The key is a method that this book's authors and their colleagues have used to help more than 3,000 preservice and inservice science teachers achieve improved results in their classrooms. Teaching with Purpose provides a framework for coordinating your unique students and school with your desired educational outcomes and the education research literature. You can use this framework in several aspects of teaching: for planning lessons and units, selecting activities and curriculum, and analyzing your role as teacher. All this is explained within the book's easy-to-grasp structure. It covers the case for a research-based teaching rationale, the elements of such a rationale, how to develop and implement it, and then how to become a mentor to others. Throughout the text, more than a dozen elementary, middle, and high school science teachers comment on how developing a research-based rationale has made them better educators. The book's combination of theory and practice, instruction and inspiration, makes it ideal for planning personal development and for use at teacher workshops.

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Review:

... Anecdotes and models provide the necessary background for new or experienced teachers to reflect on their current practices as they develop a personal plan for exemplary and effective teaching. --Curriculum Connections, School Library Journal, Fall 2006

I plan on using this book for my teaching of the course TED 6901 Graduate Synthesis. This course includes the assignment of doing action research. The book guides the reader to doing such research and more effective teaching. --Reviewed by: David Stronck (Union City, CA) on November 1, 2007

I plan on using this book for my teaching of the course TED 6901 Graduate Synthesis. This course includes the assignment of doing action research. The book guides the reader to doing such research and more effective teaching. --Reviewed by: David Stronck (Union City, CA) on November 1, 2007

About this edition

• Publisher: Natl Science Teachers Assn
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0873552415
• ISBN 13: 9780873552417
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 2005