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Teaching Strategies for All Teachers: Enhancing the Most Significant Variable

This book is designed to be a professional development tool for both preservice and practicing teachers. It provides descriptions, explanations, and examples of a variety of research-based teaching strategies that will enhance your ability to teach effectively. These strategies are appropriate for all teachers (general education, special education, and content area specialists), at all levels (kindergarten through graduate school).

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CHAPTER 1: SIX LESSON FORMATS
- Six Difference Lesson Plan Formats
- Lesson Planning Made Easy
CHAPTER 2: THE REFLECTIVE TEACHER
- Reflective Teaching
- Masterful Teaching
- Masterful Teaching: 4 kinds of knowledge
CHAPTER 3: DIRECT INSTRUCTION
- Elements of Direction Instruction
- More Advanced Form of Direct Instruction
- Direct Instruction: A Tool; Not an Approach
CHAPTER 4: EXPOSITORY TEACHING, MEANINGFUL LEARNING, AND SCHEMA-BUILDING LESSONS
- Expository Teaching
- Lesson Planning Made Easy
- Basic Schema-Building Lesson Plan
- Advanced Schema-Building Lesson Plan
CHAPTER 5: THE PROCESS OF PLANNING A SCHEMA-BUILDING LESSON
- The Process: Basic Schema-Building Lesson Plan
- The Process: Advanced Schema-Building Lesson Plan
CHAPTER 6: USING DIRECT INSTRUCTION TO TEACH CONCEPTS
- Concepts: The Concept of a Concept
- Concepts: The Steps in Teaching a Concept
- Concepts: Four Tips for Teaching Concepts
- Concepts: Example of a Concept Lesson Plan
- Concepts: Using Expository Teaching/Direct Instruction to Teach Concepts
- Concepts: Using Discovery Learning to Teach Concepts
- Concepts: Strategies and Activities for Teaching Concepts
CHAPTER 7: TEACHING A SKILL
- Basic Skills Lesson Plan: Cognitive Objective or Purpose Statement
- Basic Skills Lesson Plan with a Behavioral Objective
- Skills Lesson Plan: Process and Product
CHAPTER 8: DISCOVERY LEARNING
- Learner Centered Instruction
- Discovery Learning:The Basics
- Discovery Learning Lesson Plan
- Using Discovery Learning to Teach Concepts
- Open Discovery Learning
- Guided Discovery Learning
CHAPTER 9: PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING
- Problem-Based Learning: A Simple Demonstration
- Problem-Based Learning in Reading
- Problem-Solving: Intro and Overview
- Problem-Solving Strategies: CSP and MEA
- Problem-Solving and Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory
CHAPTER 10: INQUIRY LEARNING
- Inquiry Learning: Overview
- Inquiry Learning in Reading Instruction
- Inquiry Learning: Providing Structure
CHAPTER 11: COOPERATIVE LEARNING
- Cooperative Learning: Intro and Overview
- Cooperative Learning: Tips for Implementation
- Cooperative Learning: Some Specific Activities
- Group Read: A Multi-Level, Cooperative Learning Activity
CHAPTER 12: SMALL GROUP SPEECHES
- Related VideoSmall Group Speeches
CHAPTER 13: QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION
- Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Create Discussions
- Planning Effective Discussions
- Planning Effective Discussions: Avoid IRE Questions
- Wait Time
- T-Talk: For Small Group Discussions
CHAPTER 14: THINKING SKILLS
- Thinking Skills: Defining and Teaching
- Thinking Skills: Creative Thinking
- Thinking Skills: Critical Thinking Skills
- Thinking Skills: Approaches to Teaching
- Post-Reading Activities Using Thinking Skills and Higher Level Thinking
- Teaching Cognitive Processes
CHAPTER 15: BLOOM’S TAXONOMY FOR ASSIGNMENTS AND ACTIVITIES
- Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Create Assignments and Activities
CHAPTER 16: LEARNING CONTRACTS
- Learning Contracts
- Assessment: Contract Grading
CHAPTER 17: TIERED ASSIGNMENTS AND UDL
- Using Blooms to Create Tiered Instruction
- Tiered Assignments: A Multi-Level Strategy
- Universal Design for Learning
CHAPTER 18: LEARNING STATIONS AND LEARNING CENTERS
- Learning Stations
- Learning Centers
CHAPTER 19: USING EXPANDED VIEWS OF INTELLIGENCE TO ENHANCE LEARNING
- Intelligence: Problems with the Psychometric View
- Overview: Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory
- Designing Reading Activities using Gardner’s MI Theory
- Using Sternberg’ Triarchic Theory of Intelligence to Design Activities and Assignments
CHAPTER 20: PREPARING ONLINE LESSONS AND PRESENTATIONS
- Online Teaching Tips
- Effective Presentations: General Tips
- Effective Presentations: Making PowerPoints
- Effective Presentations: Handouts
- Effective Presentations: Online
CHAPTER 21: LEARNING LOGS
- Introduction to Learning Logs
- earning Logs
CHAPTER 22: STRATEGIES FOR HELPING STUDENTS READ TEXTBOOKS AND OTHER TYPES OF EXPOSITORY TEXT
- Study Skill Strategies
- Comprehension of Expository Text
- Comprehension: Teacher Pre-Reading Strategies
- Comprehension of Expository Text: Cognitive Strategies
- Comprehension of Expository Text: Read and Pause
CHAPTER 23: ALL TEACHERS ARE TEACHERS OF WRITING
- Teaching Writing: The Basics
- Designing Writing Prompts
- Identifying Writing Topics
- Writing Workshop: The Basics
EPILOG: THE SCIENCE, ART, AND CRAFT OF TEACHING
- On Being Teacher: An Art, a Science, and a Craft
- Attributes of an Effective Teacher