Chapter 1 - What Do We Mean by Best Practice

Chapter 1 opens by comparing educators to doctors who do not update their practices and describes the importance of seeking out the most up to date "practices" for teaching and learning in order to give our students the very best.  We have all heard veteran educators comment that nothing is really "new", but rather all things come back around in education.  How do we balance the two - new "best practice" ideas and tried and true instructional strategies?