Fifth Edition (revised): This book has become a standard text in many teaching courses. Designed for both the novice and the experienced educator, The Skillful Teacher is a unique synthesis of the Knowledge Base on Teaching with powerful repertoires for matching teaching strategies to student needs. Designed as a practical guide for practitioners working to broaden their teaching skills, the book focuses on 17 critical areas of classroom performance. Numerous examples illustrate teaching approaches, and chapter-by-chapter bibliographies provide additional sources for further research. This expanded fifth edition includes new chapters on Assessment, Expectations, Classroom Climate, The Importance of Teacher Beliefs, and Conditions for Teacher Learning.

The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills

Jon Saphier

Research for Better Teaching

This book offers school leaders a carefully integrated approach for transforming often divisive supervision and evaluation systems into a positive force for strengthening school culture. Specific guidelines lead to meaningful, multifaceted teacher evaluation systems.

How to Make Supervision and Evaluation Really Work: Supervision and Evaluation in the Context of Strengthening School Culture

Education & Teaching

Saphier, Jon

Schools & Teaching

How to Make Decisions That Stay Made

Bigda-Peyton, Tom

Pierson, Geoff

This book is a collection of classroom-tested, practical activity structures for getting students' minds active and engaged prior to introducing new content or skills. Each structure is designed to elicit what students already know about a topic, to surface misconceptions, and to create cognitive hooks when new material is presented.

Activators: Activity Structures to Engage Student's Thinking Before Instruction

This book is a collection of classroom-tested, practical activity structures for getting students cognitively active during and after periods of instruction. Each structure provides a framework for guiding students to summarize for themselves what was important, what they have learned, how it is important, and/or how it fits with what they already know.

Summarizers

Haley, Mary Ann

ROBERT GOWER

Based on The Skillful Teacher framework, this book is targeted to evaluators and supervisors who want a field-tested tool kit of strategies to improve, rather than remove, underperforming teachers. The text includes valuable legal notes and a model contract, case studies, assessment tools, and personal accounts of leaders in action.

The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching

Alexander D. Platt

Caroline E. Tripp

Wayne R. Ogden

Robert G. Fraser

Curriculum reform, structural reform, funding reform, organizational reform all these 20th century efforts have failed to make a significant dent in the achievement gap and the performance of disadvantaged students, especially in cities and poor rural areas. What are the most important targets for school improvement?

John Adams Promise: How to Have Good Schools for All Our Children, Not Just for Some

Barry Jentz shows how leaders can build the requisite trust and credibility for improving organizational performance. Typically, leaders Talk Tough to improve performance. When that doesn t work, they Talk Nice (or vice-versa). By learning to Talk Sense, leaders can succeed in their efforts to improve performance.

Talk Sense: Commnuciating to Lead and Learn

Jentz, Barry

Business & Money

This "gold standard" textbook now in its sixth edition has been used extensively in many colleges and school districts across the U.S. and in a number of places around the world for studying generic pedagogy aka the Knowledge Base on Teaching. Designed for both the novice and the experienced educator, The Skillful Teacher is a unique synthesis of the knowledge base on teaching with powerful repertoires for matching teaching strategies to student needs. Designed as a practical guide for practitioners working to broaden their teaching skills, the book combines theory with practice and focuses on 18 critical areas of classroom performance. It has been deemed as a must for instructional coaches and mentors.

The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teacher Skills

Mary Ann Haley-Speca

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Books by Research for Better Teaching

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The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills

How to Make Supervision and Evaluation Really Work: Supervision and Evaluation in the Context of Strengthening School Culture

How to Make Decisions That Stay Made

Activators: Activity Structures to Engage Student's Thinking Before Instruction

Summarizers

The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills

The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching

John Adams Promise: How to Have Good Schools for All Our Children, Not Just for Some

Talk Sense: Commnuciating to Lead and Learn

The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teacher Skills