Models of Teaching

This fully updated edition explores established approaches to teaching that are grounded in research to ensure high levels of learning.

This fully updated edition of a classic text explores established approaches to teaching that are grounded in research and experience to ensure high levels of learning.

Models of Teaching combines rationale and research with real-life examples and applications in the classroom, showing how teachers, professional learning communities, and school faculties can improve student attainment. The volume contains the major psychological and philosophical approaches to teaching and schooling, including thoroughly documented research on the models of teaching and their effects on student success, and offers teachers the tools to accelerate student learning.

Features include:

• three completely new chapters covering the origins of models in teaching, explicit strategy instruction and metacognition for teaching reading comprehension, and best practices for teachers coaching other teachers, expanding instruction, and supporting school renewal;
• scenarios for each model to explore the concepts in action;
• discussions of research relevant to each model throughout the text;
• advice from the authors about the use of the models in teaching;
• support for incorporating the language arts and science standards and supporting STEM
  instruction. With the aim of providing a strong impact on student achievement while keeping in line with the current emphasis on standards-based education, this classic resource will be essential reading for pre-service and new teachers as well as current teaching professionals.

This text is supported by extensive multimedia materials, including video demonstrations of the models in action, PowerPoint slides and an Instructor's Manual, available at www.modelsofteaching.org.

Autorentext

Bruce Joyce is a retired professor who taught at the University of Delaware, the University of Chicago, and Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

Emily Calhoun is director of The Phoenix Alliance in Saint Simons Island, Georgia, USA.

Inhalt

Foreword Preface Preamble Part One: Models of Teaching and Communities of Learners Chapter 1: The Search for Effective Ways To Educate-Introducing the Models of Teaching Chapter 2: Creating Communities of Expert Learners: Building on Our Students' Capacity To Learn Part Two: Basic Information-Processing Models of Teaching Chapter 3: Learning to Learn Inductively: Exploring Data Sets, Creating Categories, and Developing Concepts Chapter 4: Scientific Inquiry: Building Learning Around Investigations and Teaching the Culture of Sciencing Chapter 5: Concept Attainment: The Explicit Teaching of Concepts Chapter 6: The Picture Word Inductive Model: Developing Literacy through Inquiry **Part Three: Special Purpose Information-Processing Models Chapter 7: Synectics: Teaching the Left Brain to Put the Right Side to Work Chapter 8: Memorization: Getting the Facts Straight, Now and for the Long Term Chapter 9: Using Advance Organizers to Design Presentations--From Lectures to Courses, Including Media Part Four: The Social Family of Models of Teaching Chapter 10: Partners in Learning: Getting Everybody on Board Chapter 11: Group Investigation--the Classic Democratic-Process-Inquiry-Driven Model: Beginning with a Puzzlement, a Problem, or a Project Chapter 12: Role Playing for the Study of Values Part Five: The Personal Family of Models Chapter 13: Nondirective Teaching: The Learner at the Center Chapter 14: Inquiry Training Part Six: The Behavioral Family of Models Chapter 15: Using Explicit Instruction and Metacognition When Teaching Reading Comprehension Chapter 16: Mastery Learning: Bit by Bit, Block by Block, We Climb Our Way to Mastery Chapter 17: Direct Instruction: Applied Psychology Goes to Work Part Seven: The Conditions of Learning and Educators as Curriculum Developers, Learners, and Leaders of School Renewal** Chapter 18: The Dynamics of Disequilibrium: Making Discomfort Productive Chapter 19: The Conditions of Learning: Creating Curricula and Designing Instruction Chapter 20: Teachers Coaching Teachers: Facilitating Learning and Neutralizing the Discomfort of Change Appendix: Peer Coaching Guides References and Related Literature Index