The sixth edition of Observation Skills for Effective Teaching focuses on observing others and incorporating the right tools, knowledge, and skills into your own practice -- key principal means by which you can become an effective and professional teacher. Using this text, you will learn to observe in the following eight areas: learning climate, classroom management, lesson clarity, instructional variety, task orientation, student engagement, student success, and higher thought processes. These eight areas have been found by researchers to be related to desirable cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes in learners. This book will also teach you how to decide what to observe, how to effectively and efficiently observe in the classroom, and how to apply what you have learned through observation to grow as a reflective teacher. In addition, the book provides methodological concepts, observation instruments, and dialogues designed to help you see and practice research-based patterns of effective teaching.

Índice: 1. Why Observe? Goal 1: To Achieve Empathy Goal 2: To Establish Cooperative Relationships Goal 3: To Become Realistic Goal 4: To Establish Direction Goal 5: To Attain Confidence Goal 6: To Express Enthusiasm Goal 7: To Become Flexible Goal 8: To Become Self-Reliant A Beginning Thought For More Information Key Terms Activities 2. Lenses for Observing What Real Classrooms Are Like Rapid Pace of Classrooms Immediacy of Classrooms Interruptions in Classrooms Social Dynamics of Classrooms Becoming Aware of Classroom Behavior: Lenses for Self-Improvement To Become Aware of Your Own Behavior To Discover Alternat... Etc.