Improving Your Teaching Skills: A Guide for Student Teachers and Practitioners

Improving Your Teaching Skills: A Guide for Student Teachers and Practitioners was constructed to familiarize pre-service teachers with the fundamental tenets of effective teaching. This practical guide covers many of the skills that are used by effective teachers, and associated with the research on teacher effectiveness, observation tools that measure these skills, performance standards related to skill attainment and strategies that assist in the development of effective teaching practices for student teachers and practitioners, alike.