<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B> </B> <I>Teaching and Learning in the Elementary School</I> is built on the most current research and "best" practice.   <B> </B>It thoroughly examines all of the fundamental teaching skill categories - planning for instruction, assessing student learning, grouping for instruction, and creating a safe and effective learning environment - while constantly reinforcing the idea that effective elementary school teaching requires continual, thoughtful, and reflective decision-making. In this popular volume, three well-known authors paint a realistic portrait of elementary school teaching as a call to motivate, to encourage, to simulate, to build self-esteem, and to care for elementary school children. <B></B>For General Elementary Methods courses.</P>