Models, Strategies, and Methods for Effective Teaching

Description

Features

• Reflects the latest research and “best practice” in teacher education, placing emphasis on teaching standards and competencies.
• Addresses the key aspects of becoming an effective teacher, including issues often avoided in other texts. Topics include a professional development process, communication & interpersonal skills, motivation, instruction, diversity & learning styles, management, classroom management, lesson & unit planning, questioning, discussion, classroom work & homework, teaching concepts and skills, thinking skills & problem-based learning, direct instruction, indirect instruction, experiential learning, collaborative learning, cooperative learning, individual study, and assessment.
• Provides a sequential layout: Part A describes the background and model needed for becoming an effective teacher, while Parts B & C develop what teachers need to know and do to acquire the theory, strategies, methods, and skills honed by effective teachers.
• Features topics, cases, activities, and data collection instruments that have been reviewed and tested by the authors and other professionals, and positively received by instructors, students, field supervisors, and cooperating teachers.
• Maintains a practical and easy-to-understand format and content base for students, recognizing that professional development involves a clear explanation of the principles, strategies, methods and skills to be mastered.

Table of Contents

        Applying the Research                               

        A Teacher Preparation Model

        The Professional Development Process

2. Communication and Interpersonal Skills.

        Introduction to Communication Skills

        Basic Communication Skills

        Interpersonal Skills

        Importance of Teaching for Diversity

        Learning Styles

        Cross-Cultural Teaching

        Special Needs Learners

        Children of Poverty

        Accommodating Gender

        Diversity Issues and Approaches

4. Energizing Learners: Motivation and Affect

        The Affective Domain

        Motivation

        At-Risk Students

        Introduction

        Assessment Techniques

        Preparing Test Items

        Marking Systems

        Other Forms of Assessment

        Accommodating Special Needs Learners

        Assessment Trends and Issues

        Background for Classroom Management

        Preventive Approaches

        Support Approaches

        Corrective Approaches

        Guidelines for Classroom Management

7. Facilitating Learning:  Lesson Planning and Delivery.

        Background for Classroom Management

        Planning Variables

        Instructional Variables

        Lesson and Unit Planning

        Questioning

        Discussion

        Seatwork and Homework           

9. Teaching Concepts.

        The Nature of Concepts

        Concepts and Teaching Approaches

10. Teaching Skills

        The Nature of Skills

        Teaching Skills

PART C:  SELECTING INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACHES.

11. The Direct Instruction and Individual Study Strategies.

        The Nature of Direct Instruction

        Direct Instruction Teaching Methods

        The Individual Study Strategy

12. The Indirect and Experiential Instructional Strategies.

        The Indirect Instruction Strategy

        The Experiential Instructional Strategy

        Group Skills

        Collaborative Instruction and Learning

        Cooperative Learning

14. Teaching for Thinking and Problem-Based Learning.

        Thinking Skills and Processes

        Classic Teaching Approaches

        Current Issues and Teaching Approaches

        Critical and Creative Thinking

        Problem-Based Learning

Epilogue.

References.

Back Cover

Practical in approach, this text focuses on how preservice and experienced teachers can demonstrate the attributes, acquire the competencies, and meet the standards essential to effective teaching. The framework for the text is the “Teacher Competency Profile,” which guides the preservice student's professional development from basic teaching approaches to sophisticated strategies, methods, and skills. By identifying the essential competencies of teaching and providing guidelines for meeting professional standards, this text is also of value for use in seminars, workshops, and professional reading by practicing teachers.

Features in This Text

• Provides a sequential layout: Part I describes the background and model needed for becoming an effective teacher, while Parts II and III develop what teachers need to know and do to acquire the theory, strategies, methods, and skills honed by effective teachers.
• Features topics, cases, activities, and data collection instruments that have been reviewed and tested by the authors and other professionals and positively received by instructors, students, field supervisors, and cooperating teachers.
• Maintains a practical and easy-to-understand format and content base for students, recognizing that professional development involves a clear explanation of the principles, strategies, methods, and skills to be mastered.

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