On excellence in teaching / [edited by Robert J. Marzano].

Series title from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What's my job? : defining the role of the classroom teacher / Grant Wiggins -- Forty years of research on teaching, 1968-2008 : what do we know now that we didn't know then? / Thomas L. Good -- The artful science of instructional integration / Barrie Bennett -- Applying the science of learning to instruction in school subjects / Richard E. Mayer -- The incompatibility of high-stakes testing and the development of skills for the twenty-first century / David C. Berliner -- Teaching the thinking skills that higher-order tasks demand / Debra Pickering -- Conceptual designs for curriculum and higher-order instruction / Lynn Erickson -- Instructional cartography : how curriculum mapping has changed the role and perspective of the teacher / Heidi Hayes Jacobs -- Developing expert teachers / Robert J. Marzano -- Differentiating instruction in response to academically diverse student populations / Carol Ann Tomlinson -- Understanding by design and instruction / Jay McTighe -- Cultivating student appreciation of the value of learning / Jere Brophy -- The eight Cs of engagement : how learning styles and instructional design increase student commitment to learning / Harvey F. Silver and Matthew J. Perini -- The inner game of teaching / Robert J. Marzano and Jana S. Marzano.