What Every Teacher Should Know About Effective Teaching Strategies (Tileston, Donna Walker. What Every Teacher Should Know About--, 5.)

**__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

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

 

Introduction Vocabulary pre-test Making good decisions about instructional strategies Choosing effective teaching strategies for beginning activities Working with declarative information : teaching for meaning Procedural knowledge : teaching strategies that work Graphic organizers : strategies for thinking Using verbal strategies in the classroom Anatomy of a lesson Vocabulary summary Vocabulary post-test. As we sit at our desks to plan the lessons for the coming week, we often wish we had a crystal ball in which to see which teaching strategies will have the most impact in making our students successful. The innovative strategies presented in this volume will give you a bag of tools to help your students achieve higher-level learning.