The elements of education for teachers : 50 research-based principles every educator should know / Austin Volz, Julia Higdon and William Lidwell.

Includes bibliographical references.

The elements of education for teachers -- 80/20 rule -- Ability grouping -- Assessment, formative -- Assessment, self -- Assessment, summative -- Choice overload -- Chunking -- Classroom design -- Classroom management -- Creativity -- Decision making -- Deliberate practice -- Depth of processing -- Direct instruction -- Discussion-based learning -- Dual coding -- Engagement, parent -- Engagement, student -- Errors -- Executive functions -- Exercise effects -- Expectation effects -- Feedback -- Flexibility tradeoffs -- Homework -- Intelligence -- Interleaving -- Metacognition -- Mnemonic devices -- Motivation -- Peer tutoring -- Performance load -- Personality -- Play -- Productive failure -- Progressive disclosure -- Project-based learning -- Reading levels -- Retrieval practice -- Scaffolding -- Serial position effects -- Sleep strategies -- Social-emotional learning -- Spacing -- Student-directed learning -- Student-teacher relationship -- Study tactics -- Teach-to-learn -- Technology-based instruction -- Transfer.