Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-based Strategies for Increasing Student AchievementWhat works in education? How do we know? How can teachers find out? How can educational research find its way into the classroom? How can we apply it to help our individual students? Questions like these arise in most schools, and busy educators often don't have time to find the answers. |
Contents
An Idea Whose Time Has Come | 1 |
Identifying Similarities and Differences | 13 |
Summarizing and Notetaking | 29 |
Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition | 49 |
Homework and Practice | 60 |
Nonlinguistic Representations | 72 |
Cooperative Learning | 84 |
Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback | 92 |
Cues Questions and Advance Organizers | 111 |
Teaching Specific Types of Knowledge | 123 |
Using the Nine Categories in Instructional Planning | 146 |
Afterword | 156 |
Appendix | 159 |
References | 161 |
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About the Authors | 177 |
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References to this book
Student Achievement Through Staff Development Bruce R. Joyce,Beverly Showers No preview available - 2002 |
Bringing Out the Best in Teachers: What Effective Principals Do Joseph Blase,Peggy C. Kirby Limited preview - 2008 |