Constructivist Teaching Strategies for Diverse Middle-Level Classrooms, MyLabSchool Edition
by Henson, Kenneth T.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Allyn & Bacon
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Summary
Constructivist Strategies for Proactive Middle Level Teachers is designed to prepare prospective middle level teachers for their first classroom experience and to help in-service teachers improve their teaching skills.Each of the themes in this book addresses a major goal set by the Carnegie Council on Academic Development or by the National Middle School Association particularly selected for middle-level programs. The book employs as its focus constructivism, multiculturalism, and a proactive approach to teaching-all topics of concern/importance to teacher educators.Prospective middle level teachers.
Table of Contents
| Teaching and You | |
| The Teaching Profession | |
| The Teacher's Attitude | |
| Constructivism | |
| Role of Constructivist Teachers | |
| Cooperative Learning Programs | |
| Sample Programs | |
| Conducting Research | |
| Using Research to Improve Teaching | |
| Benefits of Conducting Research | |
| Planning | |
| Using Performance Objectives | |
| Outcome-Based Education | |
| Education Expectations: Aims, Goals, Objectives | |
| Performance Objectives in Three Domains | |
| Long Range Planning | |
| Curriculum Determiners | |
| Concept Development | |
| The Question of Content | |
| Researching Higher Levels of Thinking | |
| The Unit Plan | |
| Planning Daily Lessons | |
| The Daily Lesson Plan | |
| Applying Constructivism to Daily Planning | |
| The Curriculum | |
| Implementing the Lesson Plan | |
| Learning Cycle Theory | |
| Sample Daily Lesson Plan | |
| Assessment | |
| Evaluation | |
| Past Use of Evaluation in Schools | |
| Formative Evaluation | |
| Summative Evaluation | |
| Competitive Evaluation | |
| Grading Systems | |
| Test Administration, Administration, and Scoring The Teacher's Responsibility | |
| Curriculum Alignment and Authentic Tests | |
| Types of Tests | |
| The Purpose of Testing | |
| Test Construction | |
| Writing Test Questions | |
| Higher Level Questions: Cognitive Domain | |
| A Balance Is Needed | |
| Affective Domains | |
| Questioning Techniques | |
| Test Administration | |
| Accountability: Standardized and Alternative Tests | |
| Providing for Individual Difference | |
| Individualizing Instruction | |
| The Need to Individualize | |
| In-Class Ability Grouping | |
| Grade Contracts | |
| Using Instructional Models | |
| Mastery Learning | |
| Matching Students' Learning Styles and Teachers' Teaching Styles | |
| Using Microcomputers to Individualize | |
| Programs for At-Risk Students | |
| Other Ways to Involve Students | |
| Homework | |
| Discussion | |
| Teaching in Multicultural Classrooms | |
| Taking a Positive Approach | |
| Personalizing Teaching | |
| A Reason for Optimism | |
| The Teacher's Decision | |
| The Teacher's Role | |
| Selecting Ethnic Materials | |
| Academic Achievement from Everyone | |
| The Teacher's Wider Role | |
| Using Process to Praise Diversity | |
| Teaching Strategies and Communications | |
| Teaching Strategies | |
| Developing Lessons | |
| The Lecture | |
| The Case Study Method | |
| Tutoring | |
| Inquiry Learning | |
| Questioning | |
| Discovery Learning | |
| Simulation Games | |
| Cooperative Learning (Revisited) | |
| Communications The Need for Communications | |
| Messages to Communicate | |
| Verbal Communication Skills Classifying Questions | |
| The Questioning Grid | |
| Reinforcement | |
| Review Nonverbal Communication Kills | |
| Effective Schools Research | |
| Classroom Motivation and Discipline | |
| Motivation | |
| Student Attitudes Toward the Subject | |
| Student Attitudes Toward Themselves | |
| Arts Education Affects Students' Attitudes Toward Themselves | |
| Student Attitudes Toward the Teacher | |
| The Role of Humor | |
| Enthusiasm | |
| Keeping St | |
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