In 2001, Classroom Instruction That Works asked a few simple questions and inspired more than a million teachers to refine their approach to teaching. What works in education? How do we know? How can educational research find its way into the classroom? How can we apply it to help individual students?
This all-new, completely revised second edition of that classic text draws on the research and developments of the following decade to reanalyse and reevaluate the teaching strategies that have the most positve effect on student learning:
Setting objectives and providing feedback
Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
Cooperative learning
Cues, questions, and advance organizers
Nonlinguistic representations
Summarizing and note taking
Assigning homework and providing practice
Identifying similarities and differences
Generating and testing hypotheses
These strategies are organized and presented within a framework that is geared toward instructional planning, which highlights the point that all of the strategies are effective and should be used to complement one another. Each strategy is supported with recommended classroom practices, examples of the strategy in use, tips for teaching, and information about using the strategy with today’s learners.
Whether you are coming to this book for the first time or are a veritable expert in the nine strategies, this second edition will help you develop your instructional approach, broaden your influence as a teacher, and enhance the learning potentials of all your students. We haven’t reinvented the wheel. We’ve taken classroom intstruction that works and made it thrive.