Secondary School Teaching A Guide to Methods and Resources
, by Kellough, Richard D.; Kellough, Noreen G.
- ISBN: 9780137049776 | 0137049773
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/3/2010
Thoroughly revised and updated,Secondary School Teaching: A Guide to Methods and Resourcesis a comprehensive guide to instructional methods and contains many practical exercises for active learning. . This text provides a sound introduction to the challenges of today's secondary schools, teachers'professional responsibilities, thinking and questioning, classroom environment, curriculum, planning instruction, assessment using inquiry, teacher talk, and games, learning alone and in groups, and professional development. Grades 7-12 Inservice Teachers.
Richard Kellough is author and coauthor of more than 50 textbooks, including A Primer For New Principals: Guidelines For Success (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), A Resource Guide For Teaching K-12, 6/E (Allyn & Bacon, 2011), Teaching Young Adolescents: Methods And Resources, 5/E (Pearson, 2008), Teaching And Learning K-8: A Guide To Methods And Resources, 9/E (Pearson, 2008), Your First Year Of Teaching: Guidelines For Success, 5/E (Pearson, 2009), Science K-8: An Integrated Approach, 11/E (Allyn & Bacon, 2008), and A Guide For Developing Interdisciplinary Thematic Units, 4/E (Pearson, 2008), as well As numerous journal articles. His many recognitions include being named a National Science Foundation Research Fellow at The University Of California, Davis, as well as listings in the International Authors And Writers Who's Who, Leaders In Eco Education, Men Of Achievement (Vol. 1), Dictionary Of International Biography, and Leaders In Education. His 46-year teaching career includes 13 years as a teacher of grades 7-12 (3 years as a teaching principal) and 34 years as university professor.
Coauthor of Teaching Young Adolescents: A Guide To Methods And Resources, 5/e (Allyn & Bacon, 2008), Noreen Kellough's 22-year teaching career includes 6 years of middle school foreign languages teaching, 6 years of high school teaching of French, and 12 years at the university level. At the college and university level she has taught Spanish at Los Rios Community College, was assistant clinical professor at University of the Pacific, and at California State University, Sacramento, taught
Italian, courses in teacher preparation. Until her retirement, she served as director of the children's reading program where she supervised the training of university students as tutors of reading for public school children. Recognitions include recipient of Outstanding Community Service Award (2004) from CSU,S, and 1995 delegate representing the U.S. in Berlin, Germany, at the Deutsche Schreberjugend International Youth Conference.
CHAPTER 1: Secondary School Teaching Today: Recognizing and Understanding the Challenge Create a Positive Ambiance
The Classroom in a Nation of Diversity and Shifting Demographics
Orientation: No Single Shoe Fits All
Middle-Level Schools
High Schools
The Fundamental Characteristic of Quality Education
Parents, Guardians, and the Community
The Emergent Overall Picture: Current Actions, Trends, Problems, and Issues
Meeting the Challenge: Initial Guidelines for Recognizing and Providing for Student Differences Thereby Effectively Differentiating the Instruction
Reviewing The Developmental Characteristics of Young People of Particular Age Groups
Summary
Questions for Class Discussion
Exercises
References
CHAPTER 2: Teacher Professional Responsibilities
The Teacher as a Reflective Decision Maker
Selected Legal Guidelines
Teaching Style
Commitment and Professionalism
Identifying and Building Your Instructional Competencies
Teacher Behaviors Necessary to Facilitate Student Learning
Tools For Instruction
Summary
Questions For Class Discussion
Exercises
References
CHAPTER 3: Thinking and Questioning: Skills for Meaningful Learning
Teaching Thinking for Intelligent Behavior
Purposes for Using Questioning
Types of Cognitive Questions: A Glossary
Socratic Questioning
Levels of Cognitive Questions and Student Thinking
Guidelines for Using Questioning
Using an Audience Response Student Clicker System
Questions From Students: The Question-Driven Classroom and Curriculum
Summary
Questions For Class Discussion
Exercises
References
CHAPTER 4: The Classroom Learning Environment
The Importance of Perceptions
Classroom Control–Its Meaning–Past and Present
Management
Developing Your Own Effective Approach to Classroom Management
Providing a Supportive Learning Environment
Preparation Provides Confidence and Success
Classroom Procedures and Guidelines for Acceptable Behavior
Using Positive Rewards as Motivators
Managing Class Sessions
Inappropriate Student Behavior
Teacher Response to Student Misbehavior
Teacher-Caused Student Misbehavior
Situational Case Studies for Additional Review
Summary
Questions for Class Discussion
Exercises
References
CHAPTER 5: The Curriculum: Selecting and Setting Learning Expectations
Program Organization: Providing Successful Transitions
Planning for Instruction: Three Levels
Curriculum Standards
Student Textbooks
Beginning to Think About the Sequencing of Content
Preparing for and Dealing with Controversy
Aims, Goals, and Objectives: The Anticipated Learning Outcomes
Using the Taxonomies
Learning That Is Not Immediately Observable
Integrated Curriculum
Planning for Instruction: A Seven-Step Process
The Syllabus
Summary
Questions for Class Discussion
Exercises
References
CHAPTER 6: Planning the Instruction
The Instructional Unit
Theoretical Considerations for the Selection of Instructional Strategies
Selecting Learning Activities that are Developmentally Appropriate
Styles of Learning and Implications for Teaching
The Learning Experiences Ladder
Planning and Developing an Interdisciplinary Thematic Unit
Preparing the Lesson Plan
Constructing a Lesson Plan: Format, Elements, and Samples
Setting the Learning Objectives
Summary
Questions for Class Discussion
Exercises
References
CHAPTER 7: Assessing and Reporting Student Achievement
Purposes and Principles of Assessment
The Language of Assessment
Assessing Student Learning: Three Avenues
Student Involvement in Assessment
Maintaining Records of Student Achievement
Grading and Marking Student Achievement
Testing for Achievement
Preparing Assessment Items
Assessment Items: Descriptions, Examples, and Guidelines for Preparing and Using 12 Types
Reporting Student Achievement
Teacher Parental/Guardian Connections
Summary
Questions for Class Discussion
Exercises
References
CHAPTER 8: The Thinking Curriculum: Using Teacher Talk, Demonstrations, Inquiry, and Games
Teacher Talk: Formal and Informal
Demonstration
Inquiry Teaching and Discovery Learning
Integrating Strategies for Integrated Learning
Educational Games
Summary
Questions for Class Discussion
Exercises
References
CHAPTER 9: Mastery Learning and Differentiated Instruction
Today’s Emphasis: Quality Learning for Every Student
Working with and Individualizing the Learning Experiences for Specific Learners
Learning Alone
Summary
Questions For Class Discussion
References
CHAPTER 10: Organizing and Guiding Student Learning in Groups
Learning in Pairs
Learning in Small Groups
Cooperative Learning
Learning in Large Groups
Equality in the Classroom
Learning from Assignments and Homework
Project-Centered Learning: Guiding Learning from Independent and Group Investigations, Papers, and Oral Reports
Writing Across the Curriculum
A Collection of 130 Annotated Motivational Teaching Strategies with Ideas for Lessons, Interdisciplinary Teaching, Transcultural Studies, and Student Projects
Summary
Questions For Class Discussion
Content Area Websites
References
CHAPTER 11: Professional Development: A Continuing Process
Professional Development Through Student Teaching or Internship
Finding a Teaching Position
Professional Development Through Reflection and Self-Assessment
Professional Development Through Mentoring
Professional Development Through Inservice and Graduate Study
Professional Development Through Participation in Professional Organizations
Professional Development Through Communications with Teachers
Professional Development Through Off-Teaching Work Experience
Professional Development Through Micro Peer Teaching
Questions for Class Discussion
Summary
References
GLOSSARY
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