Preparation for Critical Instruction (eBook)

How to Explain Subject Matter While Teaching All Learners to Think, Read, and Write Critically

Victor P. Maiorana (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
178 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2542-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Preparation for Critical Instruction! is written for teacher-educators, teacher-candidates, school and college faculty, professional developers, principals, superintendents, and education deans. It provides an operational core body of knowledge for critical instruction. As with doctors, engineers, and lawyers, ownership of the language, standards, preparation, and practice is now a reality for the teaching profession. This book takes the mind's innate and informal ability to think critically and transforms and develops it for use in an explicit, formal, and critical manner for engaging subject matter. For use in teacher preparation and professional development programs, you will learn to Use critical reasoning strategies to think, read, write, understand, comprehend, and explain new and revisited subject matter critically. Design mind grammar-based classroom assignments that explain subject matter critically while concurrently developing critical thinking, reading, and writing abilities in all students.This book provides the instructional basis to improve significantly the achievement of all students at all levels. Better placed to meet the school, college, workplace, and citizen needs of life in the digital 21st century, professional practice will be substantially more tangible, respected, and universally prized.

Autor

Victor P. Maiorana earned his doctorate in curriculum and instruction at New York University, for which he won a scholarship and leadership award, and a research award, for his work on critical thinking and subject matter comprehension. Dr. Maiorana is the originator of mind grammar for subject matter, which develops and applies the mind’s innate ability to think critically to reading, writing, and comprehending content in all disciplines.

Inhalt

DedicationPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I - FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL LEARNING AND INSTRUCTIONChapter 1 - The Language of Instruction Chapter 2 - The Nature of Subject Matter and Mind GrammarChapter 3 - Thinking: The First Language ArtPART II - CRITICAL LEARNINGChapter 4 - Introduction to Critical LearningChapter 5 - Critical Understanding With Mind Grammar OneChapter 6 - Critical Comprehension with Mind Grammar TwoChapter 7 - Read for Critical ComprehensionChapter 8 - Write for Critical ExplanationPART III - CRITICAL INSTRUCTIONChapter 9 - Case Study: Critical Learning Leads to Critical InstructionChapter 10 - Introduction to Critical InstructionGlossaryIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-2542-0 / 1475825420
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-2542-8 / 9781475825428