Full Description
The essential bag of tools for teaching the standards-based curriculum for higher-level student learning and achievement!
This concise collection of effective teaching strategies will be an invaluable guide for every teacher who knows that the way we teach is just as important as what we teach. Chapters cover:
Making good decisions about instructional objectives
Teaching tools for beginning activities
Teaching tools for working with declarative information: vocabulary, facts, data, and more
Teaching tools for procedural activities: constructing models, using procedural knowledge, and more
Thinking tools and graphic organizers
Verbal tools such as brainstorming, Socratic seminars, real world applications, and more
Guidelines for lesson planning
Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
Bibliography and Index
Contents
About the Author
Introduction
Vocabulary Pre-Test
1. Making Good Decisions About Instructional Objectives
2. Choosing Teaching Tools for Beginning Activities
3. Teaching Tools for Working With Declarative Information
4. Teaching Tools for Procedural Activities
5. Graphic Organizers - Tools for Thinking
6. Verbal Tools for the Classroom
7. Anatomy of a Lesson
Glossary
Vocabulary Post-Test
Bibliography
Index
