by Sheila Allen
Most ideas about teaching are not new,
but not everyone knows the old ideas.
Euclid, c. 300 BC
This site gives
information about lectures and instruction.
The topics that are covered are:
·
The Pause
Procedure
·
Effects
of Lecture Information Density
·
Instructional
Behaviors for Clearer Presentation
Advantages
of tapping into a students prior knowledge
This
web-site offers teachers in interactive forum for prior knowledge.
The designer of this site has compiled information from four experts in
the field, and put their lecture (video and tape) on this site.
The information focuses on assignments given out by teachers.
Suggestions focus around culture, but include the following exercises.
Make
them:
Use:
·
Hands-on
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Graphic Organizers
·
Familiar
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Class Discussions
·
Connect
with content
·
Fit the
culture
Using
Materials vs. Connecting to Prior Knowledge
This article
focuses on problems caused by teacher because students’ prior knowledge might
be flawed. It deals with the ways
students learn, and how they adjust their prior knowledge to fit the newly
acquired knowledge.
“Because
textbooks continue to dominate the elementary, middle, and secondary curriculum
as a major instructional tool, teachers are challenged by how to engage their
students in the content even though they lack the necessary reading skills.
Complicating the matter, textbooks are often organized in such a way that the
task of reading and thinking about them is made unreasonably difficult.”
Barbara Flanagan November 1996
by Sheila
Allen
Publisher: International Thomson Publishing
ISBN: 0155036629; (December 1997)
Comprehending College Textbooks Steps To Understanding and Remembering What You Read
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Author(s):
Joe
Cortina Janet
Elder Katherine
Gonnett
ISBN: 0070240582
Format: Softcover, 20 illus. , 544 pages.
Pub date: October 1, 1995
Copyright: 1996
This site deals with problems that may exist in a
student’s life that prevents him or her from being successful reading the
text. Issues the author researches
are:
- Do You Read Actively?
- Reading Speed and
ComprehensionConcentration
- Dealing with Difficult Textbooks
Tips,
Techniques, and Materials
This
site offers students one way of combating a difficult text.
In addition, this site offers students a course if they desperately need
help, and teacher handouts to for use in the classroom on text analysis.
Step-By-Step
Instructions for Reading
This
web-site offers steps to follow during assignments using the textbook.
The three phases are broken down into before reading, during reading, and
after reading. Each phase offers
its own exercises and strategies for success.
The following is
an outline that discusses problems that might be occurring with student, ways to
correct these problems, types of text, and information within these texts.
This
site contains the SQ4R strategy to deal with textbooks.
The most important part of this strategy is constantly questioning what
you are reading during each section. SQ4R
stands for Survey, Question, Read, Record, Recite,
Review.
This
website give the necessary information to write a good summary.
This is just one exercise that is involved in making meaning out of your
textbook.
A lesson plan to
see how easy it is for your students to read and learn your textbook.
It looks at structure, readability, visual aids, vocabulary, concept
development, applications to the real world, and substantive conversation.
Study
Guides and Critical Thinkers
This
site offers questions that students should ask themselves along with the
characteristics of critical thinkers.
Setting goals/making a schedule
Mapping
information for learning
Making decisions/solving problems
This
site gives background knowledge on metacognition along with different
subsections that deal with the roles of commitment, attitudes, and attention
among many other researchable topics.
“Teachers are
professionals and, as such, should engage in deliberate behaviors based on a
rationale and monitored to their intended effects.”
The Instructional Framework Task Force Report
(January, 1988)
The
Process of Adjusting Schemata
This site deals
with the how information is processed by students when schemas have already been
formed, and must be readjusted.
This
site deals with learning strategies as they relate to metacognition and study
strategies.
This
site is a slide that offers information on declarative knowledge, both what goes
into it and what is expect from
this low level of thinking.
Lessons
Using Procedural Knowledge
This
site is a sample math lesson, which procedural knowledge is obviously used.
This
site is a summary on conditional knowledge, which offers some examples of ways
to promote this level of thinking.
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