A Resource Guide for Elementary School Teaching: Planning for Competence - Softcover

Patricia L. Roberts joined the faculty at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), where she taught courses in children’s literature, reading, and language arts, and served as coordinator of a Teacher Education Center in Elementary Education and Associate Chair and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education.  Author and co-author of more than 20 teacher resource books and texts, she is an invited biographer in Who’s Who in America, recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award (University of the Pacific) and CSUS Award for Merit for Teaching.  Listed online Cambridge Who’s Who Registry Among Executive and Professional Women at www.patriciaroberts76.mycwapp.com

Richard Kellough is author and coauthor of more than 50 textbooks, including A Primer For New Principals: Guidelines For Success (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), A Resource Guide For Teaching K-12, 6/E (Allyn & Bacon, 2011), Teaching Young Adolescents: Methods And Resources, 5/E (Pearson, 2008), Teaching And Learning K-8: A Guide To Methods And Resources, 9/E (Pearson, 2008), Your First Year Of Teaching: Guidelines For Success, 5/E (Pearson, 2009), Science K-8: An Integrated Approach, 11/E (Allyn & Bacon, 2008), and A Guide For Developing Interdisciplinary Thematic Units, 4/E (Pearson, 2008), as well as numerous journal articles. A member of several prominent organizations, Dr. Kellough has been elected to the Phi Sigma Society, the Botanical Society of America, and the American Bryological Society. His many recognitions include recipient of the Outstanding Biology Teacher Recognition Award (State of California) from the National Biology Teachers Association, being named a National Science Foundation Research Fellow at the University of California, Davis, as well as listings in the International Authors And Writers Who's Who, Leaders In Eco Education, Men Of Achievement (Vol. 1), Dictionary Of International Biography (Volumes 9 and 10), and Leaders In Education.

A Resource Guide for Elementary School Teaching is a practical, comprehensive, and concise methods text designed to engage readers in "hands-on" and "minds-on" learning about effective teaching.

Features new to the fifth edition include:

• Sample projects and resources for service learning that reflect national efforts to help children connect academic learning, personal growth, and a sense of civic responsibility
• A new chapter on elementary school children, their development and their diversity, and specific strategies for working with them
• Instructional scenarios and classroom vignettes that serve as additional springboards for thinking and class discussion
• A companion website at www.prenhall.com/kellough