How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching!: Four Practices That Improve Student Learning

This resource offers teachers user-friendly tools for creating a standards-based classroom that meets accountability requirements and provides a learning environment where both teachers and students can thrive. Barbara P. Benson’s framework allows teachers to synthesize the best of what they already know and do with research-based best practices on learning and learners. The author emphasizes that students can best learn the required content and competencies when teachers are following the curriculum determined by the standards while: creating a community of learners who are self-directed, interactive, cooperative, and focused on quality; making reflection a routine for everyone; teaching content and process; developing more authentic student tasks and assessment methods. The new edition of How to Meet Standards, Motivate Students, and Still Enjoy Teaching! features updated references and new reproducibles for classroom use.