Full Description
Models of Teachingapproaches to teaching, grounded in research and experience and designed to ensure the high levels of learning they are intended to generate. With the goal of providing the strongest positive effect on student achievement while keeping in line with the current emphasis on standards-based education, Models of Teaching pairs rationale and research with real-world examples and applications to provide a strong foundation for future and new educators. The book encompasses all of the major psychological and philosophical approaches to teaching and schooling, includes thoroughly documented research on the various models of teaching and their subsequent positive effects on student success, and gives teachers the tools they need to build strong classrooms that accelerate student learning.
Contents
PrefaceA Note on HeritageAcknowledgmentsPart One - Models of Teaching: A Working Professional Repertoire1. Where Models of Teaching Come From2. Building the Community of Expert Learners: Taking Advantage of Our Students' Capacity to Learn (and Ours)Part Two - The Basic Information-Processing Models of Teaching3. Learning to Learn Inductively: The Really, Really Basic Model of Teaching4. Scientific Inquiry: Learning through Investigations5. The Picture Word Inductive Model: Developing Literacy Through Inquiry Part Three - Special Purpose Information-Processing Models6. Concept Attainment : The Explicit Teaching of Important Concepts7. Synectics: Teaching the Left Brain to Put the Right Side to Work8.. Memorization: Getting the Facts Straight, Now and for the Long Term 9. Using Advance Organizers to Design Presentations: Scaffolding Lectures, ICT, and Distance Offerings10. The Inquiry Training Model: Training Inquiry Skills DirectlyPart Four - The Social Family of Models of Teaching11. Partners in Learning: Getting Everybody on Board12. Group Investigation: Rigorous Inquiry through Democratic Process13. Role Playing: Studying ValuesPart Five - The Personal Family of Models14. Nondirective Teaching - The Learner at the Center15. Developing Positive Self-ConceptsPart Six - The Behavioral Family of Models16. Explicit Instruction: Comprehension When Reading and Composing When Writing17. Mastery Learning: Bit by Bit, Block by Block, We Climb Our Way to Mastery18. Direct Instruction: Applied Psychology Goes to WorkPart Seven - The Conditions of Learning, Learning Styles, and Conceptual Levels. 19. Creating Curricula: The Conditions of Learning20. Expanding Our Horizons: Making Discomfort ProductiveAppendix: Peer Coaching Guides[editor1]Comp: acute accent[editor2]Comp: acute accent
