Daniels and Bizar

1. My understanding of "Best Practice" teaching is that it is an array of student focused discussions, activities, and demonstrations where it is more the students learning from each other rather than the traditional ways of having only the teacher lecture. This way creates a more student centered classroom and in return allows the students to be more creative and latch on to topics more easily and quickly.
2. The tenants of "Best Pracitice" teaching are that it is student-centered, experimental, reflective, authentic, holistic, social, holistic, social, collaborative, democratic, cognitive, developmental, constructivist, and challenging.
3. "Best Practice" teaching is not teacher centered and full of lectures, silence, stress, competition, and reliance on standardized tests.
4. The easiests way of incorporating this type of teaching into an English classroom is simply being active in the classroom. Allow the students to do skits and readings. Allow students to sing and even rap a poem. Creativity is the key with this type of teaching and allowing the students to be free.