This best-selling text provides comprehensive coverage of general teaching methods and models. The most balanced text in its field, it covers all major teaching models plus the executive skills of teaching including planning, classroom management, assessment, motivation, and use/management of time and space. Each chapter includes a strong emphasis on research. "Theoretical and Empirical Support" sections in each chapter provide a broad sampling of the knowledge base that underlies and supports the recommended teaching practices found in the latter part of each chapter. Students are shown why a recommended procedure or principle works the way it does, not just how to execute it effectively. The text also takes a strong applied approach with its chapter-ending case studies with responses from in-service teachers, interactive case study activities on the CD-ROM, “Teachers on Teaching” audio clips, reflection features, and portfolio resources.