Peter Brunn draws from his own teaching experience as well as years of classroom research with hundreds of teachers across the country to bring you the steps, strategies, and structures successful teachers use to organize and manage their lessons so that you, too, can experience success with every lesson you teach.- Describes the ten qualities of effective teaching.- Outlines a five-step lesson-planning process.- Showcases effective teaching techniques: cooperative structures, open-ended questions, wait time, team-building activities, class meetings, turn and talk, writer's notebook, and the read-aloud.