Instructional Patterns: Strategies for Maximizing Student Learning

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SAGE, 2006 - 389 sider
Instructional Patterns: Strategies for Maximizing Student Learning uniquely examines instruction from the learners' point of view. In this text, authors Larry C. Holt and Marcella Kysilka comprehensively examine various instructional patterns including Teacher Centered, Teacher Student Interactive, Student Centered, and Thinking and Organizing the Content, to help readers plan research based instructional strategies that make the most of a student's learning experience. The book also looks at historical, psychological, and social factors that affect instructional decision making, as well as practical issues of instruction such as lesson planning, classroom management and assessment, and accountability.

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FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE ALL INSTRUCTION
1
Where Were Going
11
Thomas Jefferson
29
Privatization Vouchers Charter Schools and Homeschooling
35
Psychological Factors
43
SUMMARY
50
PRACTICAL ISSUES OF INSTRUCTION
53
SUMMARY
81
The Teacher as Individual Facilitator
214
CLASSROOM SCENARIOS
222
SUMMARY
230
CLASSROOM SCENARIO
247
THINKING AND ORGANIZING THE CONTENT
253
Memorization
287
CLASSROOM SCENARIO
299
LEARNING TENETS THAT SUPPORT MEMORIZATION
305

Lee Canter and Marlene Canter
100
Linda Albert
107
Classroom Assessment and Accountability
113
TEACHERCENTERED PATTERNS
133
Assessment
145
Mastery Learning
151
TEACHERSTUDENT INTERACTIVE PATTERNS
167
CLASSROOM SCENARIO
181
SUMMARY
188
STUDENTCENTERED PATTERNS
205
Jerome S Bruner
312
Assessment
319
Inquiry
325
CLASSROOM SCENARIO
338
SUMMARY
345
References
359
Index
371
About the Authors
389
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Larry C. Holt (Ed.D., University of Cincinnati) is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida in the department of Educational Studies. His research interest include general methods, student learning, middle level education, and technology. His first book was published by the National Middle School Association entitled, Cooperative Learning in Action. A second book entitled, Teach Me I dare you will be published in 2006. He was a Fulbright scholar to the country of Lithuania 1997-98. Dr. Marcella L. Kysilka, professor emerita in the College of Education at the University of Central Florida received her bachelor's degree from Ohio State University; her master's from Kent State University and her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Kysilka has held many leadership roles in professional organizations including the presidency of Kappa Delta Pi and editor of The Educational Forum, Board of Directors and Leadership Council of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and associate editor of the Journal for Curriculum and Supervision, President of Florida Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, President of the International Study Association for Teachers and Teaching, and Executive Secretary of the American Association for Curriculum and Teaching. Dr. Kysilka currently serves as editor of the Florida Educational Leadership journal. Dr. Kysilka has published over 60 journal articles and eight books. While at the University of Central Florida, Dr. Kysilka served as a full professor in the Educational Studies department, as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, as Director of Educational Research, as Assistant Chair to the Educational Studies Department and as Coordinator of the Curriculum and Instruction Doctoral Program. She currently is a consultant with P.A.C.E. High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, a school for underachieving inner city students and teaches part-time for the College of Mt. St. Joseph.

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