Jon Saphier & Robert Gower. The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills, RBT,1997.

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.

Marzano, Robert. Classroom Management That Works. ASCD Publications, 2003.

Marzano presents a series of action steps to get classroom management off to a good start. He provides real stories of teachers and students in classroom situations to illustrate how to use these steps successfully.

Collins, John. Developing Writing and Thinking Skills Across the Curriculum. The Network, 1992.

This text converts research on writing into practical teaching techniques. The program defines 5 types of writing assignments to develop writing skills.

 

Marzano, Robert. Transforming Classroom Grading. ASCD Publications, 2000.

Text includes a rubric-based approach to assessment and reporting.

 

Wiggins, Grant. Understanding by Design. ASCD, 1998.

Text focuses on the six facets of learning. Curriculum approaches and products that measure success are linked to the particular undersatnding(s) to be achieved. Suggestions for curriculum design (backwards design) serve to clarify the goals of various courses of study.

 

McTighe, Jay. Assessing Student Outcomes. ASCD 1993.

Dimensions of learning and performance assessment share certain assumptions about the nature of learning and the art and science of teaching. In addition, content standards and lifelong learning standards deal with knowledge and skills that cut across the disciplines and are applicable to life outside the classroom. This text serves to clarify learning goals and provides clear guidelines for measuring degrees of performance.

 

Tomilson, Carol Ann. The Differentiated Classroom. ASCD 1999.

Teaching effectively to reach students of diverse backgrounds, readiness, and skill levels is at the heart of teaching and understanding. This text provides actual examples from a variety of classrooms and units to reinforce methods for turning differentiation into reality.