Chapter 8: The Road Less Traveled: The Best Practice of Teacher Choice

My office bookshelves, home bookshelves, one shelf of my downstairs bookshelf, and one shelf of my upstairs bookshelf, are all devoted to volumes and volumes of professional books. I rarely read them cover to cover. Instead, I look for parts that are of interest to me, are relevant to a project I’m working on, or are related to my work with teachers as a professional developer and curriculum director. Twenty pages into Best Practice (Zemelman et al., 1998), I realized I have read parts of and regularly consult and recommend the fourth edition of Best Practice (Zemelman et al., 2012), and teachers love it!