How to Teach
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Teacher-training students and new teachers seeking a foundation in pedagogy and educational history
- Practicing primary and secondary teachers looking for a classic reference on classroom organization and question design
- General readers interested in educational psychology and the history of teaching ideas
- Learners with reasonable English reading ability who wish to read original educational texts
Not a good fit for
- Teachers seeking ready-to-use contemporary lesson-plan templates and classroom activity lists
- Readers focused on digital teaching, online classrooms, and educational technology
- Professional researchers seeking the latest learning-science research and empirical data
Reading tips
- Read the chapters on learning psychology first, then the sections on classroom organization, to understand the author's order of argument.
- After each chapter, write down one practice you could use in your own classroom and note the conditions under which it applies today.
- Read alongside a contemporary pedagogy textbook and mark which principles persist and which have been revised.
- For English practice, select passages on questioning and classroom management for translation exercises.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
George D. Strayer (1876–1962) was an American education scholar who taught at Teachers College, Columbia University, and devoted his career to the study of school administration and educational evaluation. He focused on how education actually operates in practice and argued for examining school organization and teaching through scientific methods. His writings were aimed mainly at teachers and school administrators, seeking to connect managerial ideas with classroom practice. One of his works, How to Teach, is held in this collection; it is a guide to teaching methods that sets out basic principles and techniques in plain, practical language for frontline teachers. Details of his life, such as his education and specific appointments, are limited in publicly available sources and are not speculated upon here. His influence lies chiefly in the spread of educational administration ideas and in practical guidance for teaching.
