Proven methods for teaching effectively--that is, enhancing students' motivation to learn and helping them acquire the knowledge, skills, and values they will need to succeed in high school, college, and their professions--are well known. Many of those methods are not particularly hard--you can just learn what they are and start using them. That doesn't mean they make teaching simple: teaching a course is and always will be a challenging and time-consuming task, especially the first time you teach it. The point is that teaching well doesn't have to be harder than teaching poorly. The purpose of this book is to help you learn to teach well.