Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Essential Skills in Teaching is a practical handbook for educators who want to strengthen the skills that make classroom teaching clearer, more engaging, and more effective.Teaching is more than delivering information. It means knowing how to capture attention, communicate clearly, ask meaningful questions, read student attitudes, manage classroom behavior, reinforce learning, and help students make sense of what they’ve learned.Drawing on decades of experience in teaching, school leadership, and teacher education, Raoul Côté, Ph.D., presents eleven essential teaching skills in a format that is practical, accessible, and built for real classroom use.Inside, educators will discover how to open a lesson in a way that captures attention and sparks curiosity, and how to close one so that learning is consolidated and misconceptions come to light. They’ll learn to recognize the signs of attention, boredom, engagement, and withdrawal in their students, and how to use examples that make abstract ideas concrete and memorable. The book also explores how verbal and nonverbal communication shape the learning environment, how to approach discipline while keeping expectations clear, and how purposeful questioning can deepen student thinking and participation. Readers will find guidance on how reinforcement, feedback, praise, and correction influence learning, how varying instructional stimuli helps sustain attention, when the lecture method works best, and how something as simple as the chalkboard can become an active instructional tool.The handbook is meant to be used before, during, and after teaching. Educators can turn to its strategies while planning lessons, guiding instruction, reflecting on their classroom experiences, or discussing their progress with mentors and cooperating teachers.It will be especially valuable for beginning teachers, practicum students, teacher educators, experienced educators, and anyone looking to refine their professional practice. Essential Skills in Teaching takes the core principles of good teaching and turns them into concrete skills, ones that can be observed, practiced, reflected upon, and developed over time.Whether you are preparing your very first classroom, refining your craft after years in the profession, or helping shape the next generation of educators, this handbook offers a practical framework for becoming a more attentive, deliberate, and effective teacher.
