Product Description: Based on rapid advances in what is known about how people learn and how to teach effectively, this important book examines the core concepts and central pedagogies that should be at the heart of any teacher education program. Stemming from the results of a commission sponsored by the National Academy of Education, Preparing Teachers for a Changing World recommends the creation of an informed teacher education curriculum with the common elements that represent state-of-the-art standards for the profession...read more

Draws upon recent research in cognition, teaching, and learning to offer strategies for teaching history, math, and science to elementary, middle, and high school students.

Draws upon recent research in cognition, teaching, and learning to offer strategies for teaching history, math, and science to elementary, middle, and high school students.

Draws upon recent research in cognition, teaching, and learning to offer strategies for teaching history, math, and science to elementary, middle, and high school students.

Links research on the science of learning to actual practice in the classroom, and describes how teachers and schools use teaching methods, curricula, and classroom settings to help children learn. (view table of contents)

Product Description: What can teachers and schools do -- with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methods -- to help children learn most effectively? New evidence from many branches of science has significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture on what people see and absorb...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This highly readable book provides an integrative treatment of important issues involving human learning, understanding and remembering. The book covers most of the major recent developments in the field and includes older research as it relates to recent developments...read more