Arends (educational leadership, Central Connecticut State U.) presents future teachers with general teacher-centered and student-centered methods and models, as well as tips on planning, classroom management, assessment, motivation, and management of time and space. Chapters are organized around leadership, interactive, and organizational aspects of teaching and emphasize research and its application. This edition has updated information on the effects of global communication and digital technology; new coverage of the cognitive/constructivist views of teaching and learning and discussion of diversity and cultural competence; updated and expanded coverage of how standards-based education affects lesson planning and a new section on how teachers can use standards; new emphasis on formative assessment; and new material on inquiry-based teaching and Harvard's Visible Thinking Project and promoting thinking in classrooms. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)