The ninth edition of Classroom Teaching Skills will help beginning teachers
meld theory with practice. The book conceptualizes the effective teacher
as a reflective decision maker, one who makes planning, implementing,
evaluation, and management decisions as part of the instructional role.
To make and carry out these decisions the teacher needs certain teaching
skills. The conceptual framework of the teacher as a reflective decision
maker is presented in Chapter 1. Each subsequent chapter addresses
a particular skill by fi rst discussing the theory behind the skill and then
giving the reader practice situations in which knowledge about the skill can
be applied and feedback received. Because each chapter presents specifi c
learning objectives as well as mastery tests, the reader receives immediate
feedback on this learning.