Companion Field Guide

The Field Guide to the Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching is a valuable and essential companion to the core book. It builds extensively on many topics with fresh ideas and adds new materials. The content includes quick tips and easy-to-follow guides that represent what the best teachers do, together with step-by-step procedures for interactive activities that create friendly and exciting learning environments. A CD-Rom provides templates, checklists, samples and reproducible handouts for both teacher and student use. It includes over 150 Power Point slides that outline the central topics of the main text for training workshops. This book is divided into two sections.

Section 1: The first part is about and for you as the teacher. It explores the foundation of your professional practice by looking at your present teaching philosophy or your core beliefs, values, and attitudes about teaching and learning, and how these may influence the choices you make about what you do and do not do in practice. It then goes through some of the “nuts and bolts of core classroom practices, with suggestions and guidelines for a number of best-practice techniques and procedures. These include ideas and tips for improving the delivery of lectures, using presentation tools, and asking and answering questions.

The second part of Section 1 covers ideas and materials to be shared directly with students such as efficient note taking, effective reading skills, overcoming procrastination with proper time management.

Section 2: This section includes of a wide range of quick tips, techniques, activities, and strategies for achieving a variety of teaching and learning goals. You will find valuable tools on building rapport, making groups work, how to recruit “volunteers, and other helpful information. It also has over 40 useful and effective classroom activities.