Classroom Instruction and Management - Tapa blanda

This text is a more flexible type of General Methods text, one that can be mixed and matched to fit a variety of curriculum arrangements. The book consists of the chapters from on the major teaching models from Arends' LEARNING TO TEACH, Fourth Edition and is a brief version of that text. It is part of a new multi-volume series whose early volumes (in addition to this one) include: Airasian, ASSESSMENT IN THE CLASSROOM; Brophy, MOTIVATION IN THE CLASSROOM; Meece, CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS; and Silverman, CASE STUDIES FOR TEACHER PROBLEM SOLVING.

Richard I. Arends is currently Professor of Educational Leadership at Connecticut State University where he also served as dean of the School of Education for nine years. Prior to his coming to Connecticut, Professor Arends was on the faculty and chair of the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. in education from the University of Oregon where he was on the faculty from 1975 to 1984. A former elementary, junior high, and high school teacher, his special interests are teacher education, and organizational development, and school improvement. Professor Arends has authored or contributed to over a dozen books on education including the Second Handbook or Organization Development in Schools, Systems Change Strategies in Education, Classroom Instruction and Management and Exploring Teaching. He has worked widely with schools and universities throughout North America, in Jamaica, and in the Pacific Rim, including Australia, Samoa, Palau, and Saipan. The recipient of numerous awards, he was selected in 1989 as the outstanding teacher educator in the state of Maryland and in 1990 received the Judith Ruskin award for outstanding research in education given by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). Between 1995-97 Professor Arends held the William Allen (Boeing) Chair in the School of Education at Seattle University.