Best Practice, Fourth Edition: Bringing Standards to Life in America's Classrooms

by Arthur Hyde, Harvey Daniels, Arthur Hyde

"The single most powerful variable in student achievement is the quality of teaching. But what does quality mean? What does it look like in real classrooms? It looks like the teaching in this book."
-Steven Zemelman, Harvey "Smokey" Daniels, and Arthur Hyde Best Practice is back, and with it Steve Zemelman, Smokey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde invite you to greet today's most important educational challenges with proven, state-of-the-art teaching. Linguistic diversity, technology, Common Core, high-stakes testing-no matter the hurdle, Best Practice teaching supports powerful learning across our profession. Best Practice , Fourth Edition, is the ultimate guide to teaching excellence. Its framework of seven Best Practice Structures and cutting-edge implementation strategies are proven across the grades and subject areas. BP4 creates common ground for teachers, leaders, and principals by recommending practices drawn from the latest scientific research, professional consensus, and the innovative classrooms of exemplary teachers. BP4 puts top-quality teaching at the fingertips of individual practitioners by sharing real-life instructional scenes that define classroom excellence, increase learning, and improve students' life opportunities. It's also more valuable than ever to PLCs and school reform initiatives thanks This new educational era demands highly-effective, high-quality instruction that makes a difference for students. Fortunately with Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde's help every educator can be a world-class, life-changing teacher-a Best Practice teacher.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Professional Development, Nonfiction, Read For School

304 pages, Paperback

First published February 27, 2012

Reviews

[Bruce Nieminski · Rating 2 out of 5]

4.5/10
273 pages
Book # 26 of 2017

Pretty tough to get through outside of the practical examples offered from classrooms around the country. There's some good stuff here it just gets lost in the text which verges on the edge of boring most of the time. I will
Keep and come back to from time to time and I imagine this rating ultimately will rise.

[Melisa Mulder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding book! It does an excellent job describing the seven structures of best practice teaching (gradual release of responsibility, classroom workshop, strategic thinking, collaborative activities, integrative units, representing to learn, and formative-reflective assessment). Also, the model lessons/units depicted in the chapters for each content area are stellar. Our teachers really enjoyed it in our book club. Highly recommend!

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I highly recommend this book to any educator, but especially elementary teachers. The authors do a fantastic job of identifying useful research, practices, and raising concerns teachers may have. The recommendation pages for reading, writing, science, math, social studies, and classroom environment/management alone make this a book one worth reading.

[Diana Pettis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good book for teachers needing to know a broad overview of what the standards are for children in America's public schools. I liked how they had real schools and teachers featured in the text so teachers could see how the standards are being implemented.

[Ginny · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my teacher book, read to renew my license. It might take me a while to read this. Already, however, it is quite interesting. It makes me wish that I was still teaching (sort of). This is really a good read for teachers and administrators.