Instruction and the Learning Environment

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ISBN: 9781883001285 | 1883001285
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/1997

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For leaders of elementary, middle, or high schools, this book shows how your school can excel in reaching students with diverse learning styles; providing "authentic" instruction and performance assessment; applying constructivist learning methodologies; and enhancing learning through alternative scheduling.

Foreword

About the Authors

viii

Preface

Introduction

The School as a Learning Organization

(14)

Creating a Learning Organization

(1)

The Five Disciplines

(3)

Building Shared Vision

(1)

Personal Mastery

(1)

Mental Models

(1)

Team Learning

(1)

Systems Thinking

(2)

School as Community

(2)

School Culture and Climate

(1)

Constructivism and Critical Pedagogy

(3)

Toward a Learning Organization

(2)

Action Steps

(2)

Learning and Information Processing

(18)

Background History

(2)

Information Processing Theory

(10)

Perceptual Systems

(1)

Working Memory

(2)

Long-term Memory

(2)

To Reject

(1)

To Transform

(1)

To Memorize

(1)

To Learn

(1)

Cognitive Controls

(3)

The Learning Process

(1)

Style-Based Learning and Instruction

(4)

Action Steps

(1)

Instructional Models

(20)

Paradigms of Instruction

(8)

The Behavior Model

(1)

The Development Model

(1)

The Apprenticeship Model

(1)

Instruction and Learning

(1)

Types of Knowledge

(3)

Instructional Practice

(3)

An Instructional System

(9)

Action Steps

(1)

Authentic Pedagogy

(20)

Authentic Achievement

(2)

Construction of Knowledge

(1)

Disciplined Inquiry

(1)

Value Beyond School

(1)

Authentic Achievement As Facilitator

(1)

Authentic Instruction

(4)

Authentic Assessment

(4)

Construction of Knowledge

(1)

Disciplined Inquiry

(2)

Value Beyond School

(1)

Authentic Student Performance

(5)

Authentic Cognitive Apprenticeships

(3)

Action Steps

(1)

The Learning Environment

(26)

Learning Environments

(9)

A Historical Example---The John Dewey School

(1)

A Contemporary Model---The Cognitive Apprenticeship

(6)

Tactics and Patterns

(10)

Scaffolding

(1)

Reciprocal Teaching

(3)

Coaching

(4)

Management of the Learning Environment

(4)

Action Steps

(1)

Subject Matter Instruction and Assessment

(20)

English / Language Arts

101

(2)

Mathematics

103

(3)

Science

106

(2)

History

108

(1)

Geography

109

(1)

The Arts

110

(2)

Testing and Instruction

112

(1)

New Forms of Assessment

113

(6)

Action Steps

118

(1)

Scheduling and Instructional Organization

119

(22)

Historical Perspective

120

(5)

Current Efforts at Schedule Reform

125

(4)

Assumptions and Guidelines for Scheduling

129

(1)

A Student-Driven Schedule

130

(5)

Organization of the Learning Environment

135

(6)

Action Steps

139

(2)

Motivation and Learning

141

(16)

Basic Needs

141

(2)

The Art of Persuasion

143

(5)

Extrinsic Rewards

144

(2)

Intrinsic Motivation

146

(1)

Comparing Extrinsic and Intrinsic Rewards

147

(1)

Creating Motivational School Environments

148

(4)

The Total School

148

(1)

Classroom Meetings

149

(1)

Curriculum

149

(1)

Instruction

150

(1)

Learning Style

150

(1)

Advisement

150

(1)

Cooperative Learning

151

(1)

Choices

151

(1)

Motivation and Reluctant Learners

152

(2)

Motivation in Perspective

154

(3)

Action Steps

156

(1)

Action Research

157

(18)

Historical Perspective

158

(1)

What Is Action Research?

159

(1)

Assumptions

160

(1)

Types of Action Research

161

(1)

The Process

162

(1)

Preparing Educators to Conduct Action Research Projects

163

(3)

Examples of Action Research

166

(5)

The Future

171

(4)

Action Steps

172

(3)

References

175

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