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McNeill, Katherine L.; Krajcik, Joseph S. – Pearson, 2011
By providing a variety of strategies, scenarios, examples of student writing, classroom video clips from across all science content areas, rubrics, and guidelines for designing assessment items, "Supporting Grade 5-8 Students in Constructing Explanations in Science: The Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning Framework for Talk and Writing" provides…
Descriptors: Evidence, Video Technology, Educational Strategies, Science Teachers
Pappas, Marjorie L.; Tepe, Ann E. – 2002
As inquiry learning has begun to permeate all areas of the curriculum, educators and school librarians across the United States have employed information process models such as Pathways to Knowledge(R) to teach students how to effectively gather, evaluate, and use information, as well as develop their critical thinking skills. Following the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Literacy, Information Seeking
Barell, John – Corwin Press, 2006
In a world with increasingly global economies and competition, students need to learn how to think critically and analytically, and to apply the imagination to solve complex problems. Problem-based learning (PBL) does just that, helping students identify problems, pose questions, research answers, report results, and create a stake in learning.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Problem Based Learning
Keller, Clair W. – 1972
This book attempts to narrow the gap between the rhetoric of social studies reform and the realities of most classrooms. It focuses on strategies for engaging students in the learning process. Practical and workable guides are provided for improving classroom instruction with new techniques and materials for innovative strategies. Although the…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Change, Evaluation, History
Brubacher, John W.; And Others – 1993
The purpose of this book is to help teacher education students and experienced teachers to develop not only an understanding of the nature of "reflective practice" but also the attitudes and skills that such an approach to teaching requires. Case studies illustrate many difficult experiences teachers encounter; each chapter begins with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethics
Rubenstein, Rheta N., Ed.; Bright, George W., Ed. – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2004
Teaching is a complex, ongoing endeavor that involves a myriad of decisions. NCTM's Sixty-Sixth Yearbook is organized around three aspects of teaching: foundations for teaching, the enactment of teaching, and the support of teaching nurtured in preservice education and strengthened throughout a teacher's career. The accompanying professional…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Education, Teaching Models, Educational Change