Impact Teaching Ideas and Strategies for Teachers to Maximize Student Learning

by Allen, Richard Howell

• ISBN13: 9780205334148
• ISBN10: 0205334148
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-27
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This unique book is a practical guide for educators who want to maximize their effectiveness in the classroom.This book stresses the importance of teachers creating the maximum impact on their students in the limited time they have available. It also covers the skills, techniques, and concepts classroom teachers can use to have more impact on their students. It addresses the global picture, and also focuses on smaller, high priority details, such as Question-Detail-Question, Vocal Italics, and Specify the Response. While broad in range, each idea is presented through the use of practical, real-life examples, making it a user-friendly book.For pre-service and in-service educators.

Author Biography

Dr. Rich Allen is a highly regarded educator and master trainer, with a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology. His cognitive learning theory research, which provided understanding on how the brain receives, processes, stores, and recalls information, forms the basis for his radical approach to teaching, presenting and facilitating.

 

In 25 years of taking his ideas around the world, he has changed the lives of thousands of educators and executives, by giving them practical new presentation and teaching techniques that massively increase personal effectiveness.

 

Rich is a much sought after keynote speaker at international education conferences and leads workshops for school districts all over the world. He is a regular speaker at the Brain Expo, leads an annual course for student teachers in the UK and works with schools and school districts in the US, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Russia.

 

A former high school math and drama teacher, Rich was a Director and Lead Facilitator for SuperCamp, a 10-day accelerated learning program for teens, before focusing on teaching brain-based learning strategies to adults. He is the author of a number of best-selling education books including: Impact Teaching and Green Light Classrooms.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
What Is ``Impact Teaching''?	1	(7)
Instructional Precepts	8	(20)
Teach People, Not Content	9	(4)
Awareness Leads to Choice	13	(4)
Learning + Enjoyment = Retention	17	(3)
Application is Everything	20	(3)
Stories are Great	23	(3)
Instructional Precepts: A Summary	26	(2)
Principles of Effective Instruction	28	(32)
Crest of the Wave	28	(11)
Open Loops	39	(11)
Frames Create Meaning	50	(10)
Classroom Strategies	60	(52)
Bridges and Zones	60	(2)
Comfort Levels in Physical Situations	62	(3)
Completing Actions	65	(3)
Contrast	68	(4)
Distributing Resources	72	(4)
Do it Standing	76	(1)
Honoring Written Notes	77	(2)
Layering	79	(5)
Music	84	(6)
Ownership	90	(5)
Pause for Visuals	95	(3)
Press and Release	98	(2)
Priming	100	(4)
Step Down	104	(2)
Visual Field	106	(3)
Walk Away	109	(3)
The Art of Effective Directions	112	(26)
One at a Time	114	(5)
See Me	119	(3)
Step Check	122	(3)
Clear and Concise	125	(2)
Congruence	127	(3)
Directionalize	130	(2)
The Four-Part Sequence for Mobilizing Directions	132	(6)
Language Issues	138	(50)
Acknowledgement	138	(4)
Appropriate Orientation	142	(4)
Enrolling Questions	146	(4)
Getting Responses	150	(3)
Involve, Don't Tell	153	(2)
Labels	155	(3)
Open/Closed	158	(3)
Positive Mental Images	161	(5)
Question/Clarify/Question	166	(4)
Sarcasm: Dividing Responses	170	(2)
Specificity	172	(4)
Specify the Response	176	(4)
Suggest the Experience	180	(4)
Vocal Italics	184	(4)
Designing Interactive Lessons	188	(51)
The Five-Part Model	188	(7)
Teaching Directly to the Point	195	(3)
Teaching Backward	198	(4)
Making it Memorable	202	(3)
APPENDICES
Appendix A: An Approach to Consider	205	(2)
Appendix B: The Menu	207	(11)
Appendix C: A Checklist	218	(1)
Appendix D: Creating a Presentation	219	(6)
Appendix E: Creating an In-Service Program	225	(3)
Appendix F: Stories	228	(11)
References	239	(4)
Index	243