This exciting new edition by educator Robin Hunter updates and expands the original book's scope to encompass teaching for independent learning, an essential skill in today's differentiated classroom and for all who value successful lifelong learning. Every educator - master teacher, classroom novice, student teacher, or teacher educator - will find this updated classic to be a refreshingly direct introduction to, or reminder of, the basic principles of effective instruction for academic excellence.The features and benefits are: updates Madeline Hunter's classic text for today's differentiated classroom; features Madeline Hunter's widely recommended seven-step plan for effective instruction (sometimes also called "direct instruction"); integrates instruction, learning, motivation, guided practice, behaviour, assessment, and more into a comprehensive and effective model for classroom teaching; and features teaching tips, classroom examples, classic quotations, recommended readings, a new comprehensive index to the complete text, and a Trainer's Guide for each chapter. New to this edition is: text updates throughout; new chapter on teaching for independent learning in the differentiated classroom; classic quotations; boxed features; extensive bibliography of recommended readings; and comprehensive index.