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Methods for Effective Teaching discusses research-based general teaching methods while emphasizing contemporary issues, including creating a learning community, differentiating your instruction, and making instruction modifications based on student differences. This edition offers new content on motivating students for a learning community, working with colleagues and parents, differentiating your instruction, and managing lesson delivery. Thorough coverage of classroom management and discipline includes discussion of dynamic ways to create a positive learning environment. Several pedagogical features about technology, learning communities, and instructional modifications for diverse classrooms engage the reader in decision making about chapter concepts, and Teachers in Action testimonials provide perspectives from real teachers. Each pedagogical feature provokes rich classroom discussions about teacher decision making and application of concepts. The numerous features, tables, and lists of recommendations ensure that the text is reader-friendly and practically oriented.

Preface

About the Authors

xix

PART I FOUNDATIONS OF TEACHING METHODS

Introduction to Teacher Decision Making

(21)

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How This Book is Organized

(2)

Content

(1)

Features

(1)

Decision Making

(8)

The Decisions That Teachers Make Matter

(1)

Standards and Education

(2)

Teachers as Decision Makers

(2)

Teachers as Reflective Practitioners

(1)

Decision Making in the Teaching Environment

(1)

Decisions That Teachers Make

(3)

Creating a Learning Community

(2)

Reflection and a Constructivist Approach to Teaching

(1)

How Teachers Can Improve Their Decision Making

(7)

PART II PLANNING INSTRUCTION

The Fundamentals of Planning

(36)

Planning

(11)

Reasons for Planning

(1)

Planning Phases

(1)

Factors Considered in Planning

(5)

Planning and the Standards Movement

(4)

Approaches to Planning

(12)

The Linear-Rational Model

(8)

The Mental-Image Approach

(3)

Additional Planning Considerations

(7)

Resources for Planning

(2)

Teacher Student Planning

(1)

Team Planning

(2)

Preparing a Syllabus

(1)

Planning to Motivate Students

(1)

Planning to Use Academic Time Wisely

(1)

How Teachers Really Plan

(5)

Types of Teacher Planning

(36)

Types of Teacher Plans

(20)

Course Planning

(5)

Term Planning

(1)

Unit Planning

(4)

Weekly Planning

(2)

Daily Planning

(8)

Components of a Daily Lesson Plan

(15)

Identifying Course Information

(1)

Objectives for the Lesson

(9)

Procedures

(1)

Materials

(1)

Evaluation of Students

(1)

Other Possible Items

(4)

The Inclusive and Multicultural Classroom

(22)

Sources of Student Diversity

(13)

Cognitive Area

(2)

Affective Area

(1)

Physical Area

(1)

Learning Styles

(2)

Creative Potential

101

(2)

Gender

103

(1)

Language

103

(1)

Cultural Diversity

104

(1)

Disabilities

105

(1)

Students at Risk

106

(1)

Socioeconomic Status

107

(1)

Creating an Inclusive, Multicultural Classroom

108

(8)

Create a Supportive, Caring Environment

108

(1)

Offer a Responsive Curriculum

109

(1)

Vary Your Instruction

110

(3)

Provide Assistance When Needed

113

(3)

Motivating Students for a Learning Community

116

(31)

Planning for Motivation

118

(1)

Motivational Strategies Concerning Instruction

119

(15)

Motivational Strategies Concerning Evaluation and Feedback

134

(13)

PART III SELECTING INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

Differentiating Your Instruction

147

(17)

Differentiating Your Instruction

149

(1)

Vehicles of Differentiation

150

(7)

Elements of the Curriculum That Can & Differentiated

150

(4)

Student Characteristics for Which Teachers Can Differentiate

154

(2)

Instructional Strategies That Facilitate Differentiation

156

(1)

Grouping Students for Instruction

157

(7)

Whole-Group Instruction

158

(1)

Small-Group Instruction

158

(3)

Independent Work

161

(3)

Direct Instructional Strategies

164

(21)

Deductive and Instructive Strategies

165

(1)

Direct Instructional Approaches

166

(19)

Direct Instruction

167

(3)

Presentations

170

(2)

Demonstrations

172

(2)

Questions

174

(4)

Recitations

178

(1)

Practice and Drills

178

(1)

Reviews

178

(1)

Guided Practice and Homework

179

(6)

Indirect Instructional Strategies

185

(26)

Inductive Approaches

186

(10)

Concept Attainment Approaches

187

(5)

Inquiry Lessons

192

(3)

Projects, Reports, and Problems

195

(1)

Social Approaches

196

(11)

Discussions

196

(3)

Cooperative Learning

199

(4)

Panels and Debates

203

(1)

Role Playing, Simulations, and Games

204

(3)

Independent Approaches

207

(4)

Learning Centers or Stations

207

(1)

Contracts and Independent Work

207

(4)

PART IV MANAGING INSTRUCTION AND THE CLASSROOM

Managing Lesson Delivery

211

(23)

Issues Affective Lesson Delivery

212

(3)

The Degree of Structure in Lessons

212

(1)

Holding Students Academically Accountable

213

(2)

Lesson Delivery

215

(19)

The Beginning of a Lesson

216

(6)

The Middle of a Lesson

222

(7)

The Ending of a Lesson

229

(5)

Classroom Management

234

(43)

Classroom Management

235

(4)

Order in the Classroom

236

(1)

Domains of Classroom Management

237

(2)

Preparing for the School Year

239

(14)

Making Management Preparations

240

(2)

Making Instructional Preparations

242

(3)

Establishing a Plan to Deal with Misbehavior

245

(2)

Planning for the First Day

247

(3)

Conducting the First Day

250

(3)

Organizing Your Classroom and Materials

253

(4)

Floor Space

254

(1)

Storage Space

255

(2)

Bulletin Boards and Wall Space

257

(1)

Selecting and Teaching Rules and Procedures

257

(5)

Rules

258

(3)

Procedures

261

(1)

Establishing a Cooperative Classroom

262

(15)

Building Positive Teacher-student Relationships

264

(3)

Building Group Cohesiveness

267

(2)

Maintaining Attention and Involvement

269

(3)

Reinforcing Desired Behaviors

272

(5)

Classroom Discipline

277

(26)

Misbehavior

278

(4)

Misbehavior in Context

278

(1)

Causes of Misbehavior

279

(2)

Types of Misbehavior

281

(1)

Degrees of Severity

281

(1)

Interventions

282

(6)

The Principle of Least Intervention

283

(1)

Some Practices to Avoid

283

(3)

Cautions and Guidelines for Punishment

286

(2)

A Three-Step Response Plan

288

(15)

Situational Assistance

289

(3)

Mild Responses

292

(6)

Moderate Responses

298

(5)

PART V ASSESSING STUDENT PERFORMANCE

Assessing Student Performance

303

(26)

Evaluation

304

(2)

Types of Evaluation

304

(1)

Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation

305

(1)

Norm-referenced and Criterion-referenced Evaluation

305

(1)

Characteristics of Good Assessment Instruments

306

(1)

Establishing a Framework for Evaluation

306

(1)

Performance-Based Assessments

307

(7)

Product Assessments

308

(2)

Performance Assessments

310

(2)

Ways to Rate Student Products or Performances

312

(2)

Teacher Made Tests

314

(15)

Planning the Classroom Test

314

(3)

Selecting and Preparing Test Questions

317

(6)

Assembling the Test

323

(2)

Administering the Test

325

(1)

Scoring the Test

325

(4)

Grading Systems, Marking, and Reporting

329

(26)

Purposes of Grading

330

(4)

Functions of Grades

331

(1)

Confounding the Achievement Grade

332

(2)

Grading Systems

334

(2)

Percentage Grades

334

(1)

Letter Grades

334

(1)

Descriptive Evaluations

335

(1)

Parent Teacher Conferences

335

(1)

Pass-Fail Grading

335

(1)

Checklists of Objectives

335

(1)

Assigning Letter Grades

336

(7)

Determining What to Include in a Grade

336

(1)

Creating a Composite Score

336

(3)

Selecting a Frame of Reference for Grading

339

(1)

Determining the Distribution of Grades

340

(2)

Calculating Semester and Annual Grades

342

(1)

Nonachievement Outcomes

343

(1)

Rating Scales

343

(1)

Checklists

343

(1)

Special Reports

344

(1)

Designing a Gradebook

344

(3)

Daily Record

345

(1)

Achievement Scores

345

(1)

Summary Charts

346

(1)

Reporting Grades and Communicating to Parents

347

(4)

Report Cards

348

(1)

Cumulative Record Files

348

(1)

Newsletters to All Parents

349

(1)

Open House

350

(1)

Parent Teacher Conferences

350

(1)

Contacts with Individual Parents

351

(1)

General Principles in Grading and Reporting

351

(4)

PART VI WORKING WITH OTHERS

Working with Colleagues and Parents

355

(23)

Working with Colleagues

356

(1)

Working with Parents

357

(4)

Reasons for Working with Parents

358

(1)

Why Some Parents Resist Involvement

359

(1)

Building a Parental Support System

360

(1)

Contacting and Communicating with Parents

361

(17)

Ways to Communicate with Parents

362

(10)

Parent Teacher Conferences

372

(6)

References

378

(11)

Name Index

389

(4)

Subject Index

393

Paul R. Burden is a professor and assistant dean in the College of Education at Kansas State University, Manhattan.

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