New Educational Resource Set to Help Teachers Develop Budding Scientists
Teacher Created Materials adds Teaching Science Today to its product lineup and part of the popular series, Professional Development for Successful Classrooms.
Huntington Beach, CA, June 25, 2008 -- Teacher Created Materials is proud to announce its newest addition to an increasingly popular series of professional development books geared towards new teachers, or anyone seeking current research-based strategies for classroom instruction. Teaching Science Today, part of the Professional Development for Successful Classroom series published by Shell Education, provides teachers with proven, sound educational strategies and best practices specifically for science instruction.
The challenges of teaching science are numerous and go far beyond fulfilling requirements and objectives. Motivating all students in today's science classrooms requires dispelling common misconceptions about how to teach science concepts, and making science relevant to students' everyday lives. Science teachers everywhere will appreciate Teaching Science Today as a handy and easy-to-implement guide packed with approaches based on current educational theory designed to help educators develop society's future scientists.
Packed with extensive background information and strategies within a teacher-friendly format,Teaching Science Today provides interactive elements and thorough understanding of teaching science. As John Elmer, Instructional Specialist for Science at Pasadena Independent School District in Texas confirms, "Teaching Science Today provides classroom teachers with a wealth of ideas and strategies designed to meet the needs of an ever-changing student population. The easy-to-read format free of educational jargon is based upon the latest research as to how children learn science. Both first year and experienced teachers will find this to be a useful tool for their science classroom."
For additional information on Teaching Science Today or the Professional Development for Successful Classroom series contact 800-858-7339 or visit www.teachercreatedmaterials.com.
Teacher Created Materials, a California-based educational publishing company with worldwide distribution publishes and distributes award-winning, research- and standards-based educational resources for K-12 classrooms. Specializing in supplemental materials and professional development training, Teacher Created Materials provides classroom-tested products for all areas of the curriculum "created by teachers for teachers and students" to educators around the globe.