This book delivers practical, classroom-ready tools that strengthen instruction and directly boost student engagement and achievement. It shows how to teach concepts, facts, rules, and routines clearly and systematically-from cause-and-effect relationships to decoding, math problem solving, scientific processes, and productive learning behaviors such as attention and persistence.
You'll find step-by-step methods for organizing curriculum into coherent, connected units; designing lessons that move students from new learning to generalization, fluency, integration, and long-term retention; and establishing strong "learning readiness" at the start of every lesson. The book provides concrete scaffolds-Model–Lead–Test/check sequences, guided notes, worked examples, and structured practice-and demonstrates how to combine explicit instruction with inquiry in clear, 5-part lesson designs that make rigorous content accessible to all learners.

- 279 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Education Teaching MethodsTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1 Knowledge: What Is It? How Do We Construct It?
- 2 Organizing Content Knowledge (Literature, History, Science, Social Studies) into Coherent and Meaningful Curricula
- 3 Special Considerations for Teaching Tool Skill Knowledge (Reading, Math, Language, Computers)
- 4 Using Cues and Reinforcement to Improve Classroom Behavior, Tool Skills, and Content Knowledge
- 5 The Model (I do)-Lead (We do)-Test/Check (You do)-Verification Instructional Format
- 6 Deepening Student Knowledge and Fostering Critical Thinking with Socratic Questioning
- 7 Scaffolding Instruction with Add-Ons
- 8 How to Prevent and Correct Errors
- 9 Learning Readiness Skills
- 10 Teaching Conceptual Knowledge (Classes, Concepts, Names): Introduction
- 11 Teaching Conceptual Knowledge Five Ways
- 12 Teaching Facts (Declarative) Knowledge
- 13 Teaching Rule Relationships (Principles), or How “Things” Are Connected in Nature and Human Activity
- 14 Teaching Procedural Knowledge (Routines or Sequences) in Nature and Human Activity
- 15 The Five-Part Lesson
- 16 A Five-Part Lesson on Sharks
- 17 A Five-Part Lesson on Decoding Using a Sequence of Four Formats
- Index
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