Teaching And Learning Strategies For The Thinking Classroom

by Crawford, Alan; Mathews, Samuel R.; Makinster, Jim; Saul, E. Wendy

• ISBN13: 9781932716115
• ISBN10: 1932716114
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-15
• Publisher: Intl Debate Education Assn

Author Biography

Alan N. Crawford is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles E. Wendy Saul is the Dr. Allen B. and Helen S. Shopmaker Endowed Professor of Education and International Studies at the University of Missouri-St Louis. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Samuel Mathews is associate professor of psychology at the University of West Florida James Makinster is assistant professor of education at Hobart and William Smith colleges

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
SECTION 1: PRINCIPLES OF ACTIVE LEARNING AND CRITICAL THINKING	1	(9)
The Most Productive Teaching	1	(1)
Organizing Instruction for Active Learning	2	(2)
Thinking Critically	4	(3)
The Classroom Environment	7	(2)
How to Make the Most of This Learning Program	9	(1)
SECTION 2: TEACHING METHODS AND STRATEGIES	10	(149)
Core Lessons and How To Read Them	10	(3)
Learning Information from Text	13	(22)
How to Read this Lesson	13	(1)
Lesson	13	(9)
Methods	22	(5)
Structured Overview	22	(1)
Know/Want to Know/Learn	23	(2)
Paired Reading/Paired Summarizing	25	(1)
Value Line	26	(1)
Quick-write	27	(1)
Variations and Related Methods	27	(8)
What? So What? Now What?	27	(2)
Brainstorming	29	(1)
Paired Brainstorming	29	(1)
Question Board	30	(1)
Question Search	31	(4)
Understanding Narrative Text	35	(13)
How to Read this Lesson	35	(1)
Lesson	35	(7)
Methods	42	(2)
Directed Reading Activity (DRA)	42	(2)
Variations and Related Methods	44	(4)
Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA) and Chart	44	(4)
Cooperative Learning	48	(29)
How to Read this Lesson	49	(1)
Lesson	49	(5)
Methods	54	(4)
Mix/Freeze/Pair	54	(1)
Close Reading with Text Coding	55	(1)
Jigsaw	56	(2)
Variations and Related Methods	58	(14)
Roles in Cooperative Groups	58	(1)
Community Agreements	59	(2)
Pens in the Middle	61	(1)
Walk-Around/Talk-Around	62	(1)
One Stay/Three Stray	63	(1)
Academic Controversy	64	(1)
Trade a Problem	65	(1)
Specialized Roles in Discussions	66	(2)
Discussion Roles for Other Subjects	68	(1)
The ReQuest Procedure	69	(1)
Reading and Questioning	70	(1)
Reciprocal Teaching	71	(1)
Focus On: Warm-Up Activities	72	(5)
Scavenger Hunt	73	(1)
Secret Talents	73	(1)
Two Truths and a Lie	73	(1)
Spider Web	74	(1)
I Love You, Dear	74	(1)
Talk to Me	74	(1)
Look Up, Mon!	75	(2)
Conducting a Discussion	77	(25)
How to Read this Lesson	77	(1)
Lesson	77	(13)
Methods	90	(7)
Predicting from Terms	90	(1)
Directed Listening-Thinking Activity	91	(1)
Shared Inquiry Approach	92	(4)
Discussion Web	96	(1)
Variations and Related Methods	97	(5)
Debates	97	(2)
Save the Last Word for Me	99	(3)
Writing and Inquiry	102	(20)
How to Read this Lesson	102	(1)
Lesson	103	(8)
Methods	111	(7)
I-Search Procedure	111	(4)
A Format for the I-Search Paper	115	(1)
Further Methods for Teaching Writing	115	(3)
Variations and Related Methods	118	(4)
Service-Learning	118	(4)
Writing to Persuade	122	(12)
How to Read this Lesson	122	(1)
Lesson	122	(6)
Methods	128	(1)
Persuasive Writing	128	(1)
Variations and Related Methods	129	(1)
Writing to Learn	129	(1)
Focus On: Other Writing Methods	130	(4)
Quick-write	130	(1)
Free Write	131	(1)
Dual-Entry Diary	131	(1)
Learning Log	131	(3)
Understanding Arguments	134	(12)
How to Read this Lesson	134	(1)
Lesson	134	(8)
Methods	142	(2)
M-Charts	142	(1)
Focused Lesson on Arguments	143	(1)
Variations and Related Methods	144	(2)
Critiquing Narrative Texts	144	(2)
Critical Listening	146	(13)
How to Read this Lesson	146	(1)
Lesson	146	(8)
Methods	154	(2)
Fishbowl and Enhanced Lecture with M-Chart	154	(2)
Variations and Related Methods	156	(3)
Socratic Questioning	156	(3)
SECTION 3: LESSON PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT	159	(23)
Lesson Planning	159	(13)
Authenticity, Choice and Community	159	(2)
Planning for Instruction	161	(1)
Planning an Individual Lesson	161	(1)
Preliminary Concerns	161	(1)
Activities	162	(1)
Management Concerns	162	(3)
Thematic Units of Instruction	165	(2)
Steps in Developing Thematic Units	167	(3)
Example of Thematic Unit	170	(2)
Assessment	172	(10)
Assessment of Critical Thinking and Active Learning	172	(1)
Assessment in Active Learning Environments	172	(2)
Steps to Simplify Assessment during Active Learning	174	(4)
Assessing the Quality of Student's Thinking through Written Products	178	(2)
Developing Rubrics	180	(1)
Self-Assessment for Teachers	181	(1)
SECTION 4: TEACHING IN AND ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES	182	(31)
Literature Study	182	(8)
Mathematics	190	(4)
Science	194	(6)
The Arts	200	(4)
Interdisciplinary Studies	204	(6)
Active Learning on Your Own	210	(3)
APPENDIX I: STUDENT AND TEACHER PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND RUBRICS	213	(10)
Student Standards and Rubrics	214	(6)
Teacher Standards and Rubrics	220	(3)
APPENDIX II: TEXTS FOR DISCUSSION	223	(12)
Elephants and Farmers	223	(1)
The Shilling	224	(2)
Remembering Columbus	226	(1)
Ivan and the Seal Skin	227	(2)
Jack and the Beanstalk	229	(2)
Let's Hear it for the Smokers!	231	(1)
Enhanced Lecture in Opposition to the Kyoto Protocol on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions	232	(1)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff	233	(2)
Glossary	235	(5)
References	240