K-12 Classroom Teaching: A Primer for New Professionals (4th Edition)

K-12 Classroom Teaching: A Primer for New Professionals is a brief, practical book to help new teachers explore key aspects of classroom teaching during their preservice program and a must-have resource—providing strategies for learning about

students, planning and assessment, instruction, classroom management, defining a personal educational stance and growing professionally—to refer to daily in their first classrooms.

Written in clear, reader-friendly language, the primer is solidly grounded in the newest research (with hundreds of new citations) and reflects understanding of the demands of classrooms today. This edition is grounded by a conception of inclusive and responsive instruction that encourages teachers to place students and families at the center of each educational decision and build instruction, assessment, and management and discipline approaches “from the ground up” to

meet the wide range of students needs in today’s classrooms.

This edition also focuses on the demands of the 21st Century and prepares teachers and their students’ to develop competencies such as critical and systems thinking; creativity; collaborative skills; and information and technology literacy.

Finally, the Fourth edition offers teachers practical new coverage of the following topics:

• The Achievement Gap and how to use instruction to create more equitable schooling communities
• A step-by-step process of conducting assessment from question conceptualization through data collection and analysis
• Updated research in the areas of instruction, assessment, management and discipline
• Engaging, practical voices and stories from real teachers presented through Teacher Talk, a new feature located throughout the text.