Evidence-based teaching : : strategies that promote learning / / Robyn M. Gillies.

• VerfasserIn: Gillies, Robyn M., 1949-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Public school systems are now under increasing pressure to close achievement gaps between the able and less-able students, minority and non-minority students, and disadvantaged students and their non-disadvantaged peers. Moreover, there is now an expectation that schools and teachers will use those...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Evidence – What is it?
• Student-centred teaching: Theoretical perspectives that inform research
• Peer-mediated learning: Strategies that promote student engagement and learning
• Teacher-mediated learning strategies
• Developing complex tasks to promote thinking and learning
• Planning formative and summative assessments
• References
• Glossary
• Index to Evidence-based teaching.