Strategies and Models for Teachers: Teaching Content and Thinking Skills

by Eggen, Paul; Kauchak, Don

• ISBN13: 9780205308088
• ISBN10: 0205308082
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

This K-12 teaching methods text opens each chapter with case studies illustrating the model in actual classroom practice and translates cognitive principles of learning into teaching strategies.As in past editions, the fourth edition of Strategies for Teachers continues to focus on instruction, using a models approach, linking prescriptive teaching strategies to specific content and thinking goals. This edition is composed of two main parts: the first two chapters outline advances in effective teaching and the teaching of thinking. The remaining chapters offer detailed coverage of the individual models, including suggestions for modifications that make them adaptable to a variety of teaching-learning situations. The text focuses on active learning, the use of research, psychology and experience, and emphasizes the teacher's central role in the learning process. New chapters on social interaction models and problem-based learning explain and illustrate applications of these models in classrooms. The practicality of this text is one of its key selling points, promising to make the fourth edition as vital a tool for instructors and students as the previous editions have been.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Cognitive Learning and Models of Teaching	1	(21)
Learning: A Cognitive Perspective	2	(9)
Research and the Teacher's Role in Learning	11	(3)
The Need for Instructional Alternatives	14	(2)
The Models Approach to Teaching	16	(1)
Cognitive Learning Goals	16	(1)
Cognitive Skills in the Classroom	17	(5)
Essential Teaching Skills and the Teaching of Thinking	22	(36)
Essential Teaching Skills: The Foundation for Teaching Effectiveness	29	(16)
Beyond Effective Teaching: Teaching for Thinking and Understanding	45	(2)
Critical Thinking	47	(11)
Social Interaction Models	58	(47)
The Groupwork Model	60	(4)
The Cooperative-Learning Model	64	(28)
Discussions	92	(8)
Increasing Motivation with Social Interaction Models	100	(5)
The Inductive Model: A Constructivist View of Learning	105	(42)
The Inductive Model: An Overview	113	(3)
Goals for the Inductive Model	116	(6)
Planning Lessons with the Inductive Model	122	(4)
Implementing Lessons Using the Inductive Model	126	(8)
The Inductive Model: Emphasis on Thinking and Understanding	134	(1)
Using the Inductive Model to Increase Learner Motivation	135	(1)
Flexibility in the Inductive Model	136	(4)
Assessing Student Learning	140	(7)
The Concept-Attainment Model	147	(32)
The Concept-Attainment Model: An Overview	156	(2)
Goals for the Concept-Attainment Model	158	(1)
Planning Lessons with the Concept-Attainment Model	159	(3)
Implementing Lessons Using the Concept-Attainment Model	162	(6)
Implementing Concept-Attainment Activities: Modifications	168	(3)
Assessing Student Outcomes of Concept-Attainment Activities	171	(8)
The Integrative Model: Teaching Organized Bodies of Knowledge	179	(47)
The Integrative Model: An Overview	190	(3)
Goals for the Integrative Model	193	(2)
Planing Lessons with the Integrative Model	195	(3)
Implementing Lessons Using the Integrative Model	198	(9)
Increasing Learner Motivation with the Integrative Model	207	(1)
Modifications of the Integrative Model	208	(10)
Assessing Integrative Model Activities	218	(8)
Problem-Based Learning Models	226	(43)
Problem-Based Learning Models: An Overview	229	(2)
The Problem-Solving Model	231	(9)
The Inquiry Model	240	(12)
Using Technology to Support Problem-Based Learning	252	(2)
Increasing Motivation in Problem-Based Learning	254	(2)
Assessing Learning in Problem-Based Learning	256	(13)
The Direct-Instruction Model	269	(28)
The Direct-Instruction Model: An Overview	275	(1)
The Direct-Instruction Model: Theoretical Perspectives	276	(3)
Planning Lessons with the Direct-Instruction Model	279	(3)
Implementing Lessons Using the Direct-Instruction Model	282	(5)
The Direct-Instruction Model: Variations	287	(4)
Assessing Student Understanding	291	(6)
The Lecture-Discussion Model	297	(34)
The Lecture-Discussion Model: An Overview	303	(1)
The Lecture-Discussion Model: Theoretical Perspectives	303	(5)
Planning for Lecture Discussions	308	(6)
Implementing Lecture-Discussion Lessons	314	(6)
Variations of the Model	320	(4)
Assessing Lecture-Discussion Lessons	324	(7)
Adapting Instruction to Improve Effectiveness	331	(16)
Teaching Models: Adaptations	338	(4)
Teaching Expertise: Beyond Instructional Models	342	(5)
Exercise Feedback	347	(14)
References	361	(8)
Glossary	369	(4)
Index	373