Description
Book SynopsisInstructional Strategies for Middle and High School is an accessible, practical, and engaging methods textbook that introduces pre-service teachers to various instructional strategies and helps them to decide how and when to use these methods in the classroom.
Classrooms are comprised of diverse learners, and aspiring teachers will face complex decisions about student assessment. This book offers practical suggestions for ways to integrate effective classroom management and valid assessment techniques with each instructional strategy. Key features include:
- Clear, step-by-step descriptions of six instructional techniques that pre-service teachers can realistically implement within the classroom setting and videos of these strategies being employed in actual middle-school classrooms;
- Practical suggestions for ways to integrate effective classroom management and valid assessment techniques with each instructional strategy;
- Concrete
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Teaching on a Solid Foundation 1. The Learner and the Classroom Learning Community 2. What Students Learn (And You Teach) 3. Preparing Learning Targets and Assessing Student Learning 4. Long and Short Range Planning Part 2: Examining Six Instructional Strategies 5. Lecture/Interactive Presentation 6. Questioning 7. Cooperative Learning 8. Simulations, Role-Play and Dramatization 9. Discussion and Debate 10. Inquiry and Student-Directed Investigations Glossary
