Foreword
Preface
Preamble
Part One: Models of Teaching and Communities of Learners
Chapter 1: The Search for Effective Ways To Educate—Introducing the Models of Teaching
Chapter 2: Creating Communities of Expert Learners: Building on Our Students’ Capacity To Learn
Part Two: Basic Information-Processing Models of Teaching
Chapter 3: Learning to Learn Inductively: Exploring Data Sets, Creating Categories, and Developing Concepts
Chapter 4: Scientific Inquiry: Building Learning Around Investigations and Teaching the Culture of Sciencing
Chapter 5: Concept Attainment: The Explicit Teaching of Concepts
Chapter 6: The Picture Word Inductive Model: Developing Literacy through Inquiry
Part Three: Special Purpose Information-Processing Models
Chapter 7: Synectics: Teaching the Left Brain to Put the Right Side to Work
Chapter 8: Memorization: Getting the Facts Straight, Now and for the Long Term
Chapter 9: Using Advance Organizers to Design Presentations--From Lectures to Courses, Including Media
Part Four: The Social Family of Models of Teaching
Chapter 10: Partners in Learning: Getting Everybody on Board
Chapter 11: Group Investigation--the Classic Democratic-Process-Inquiry-Driven Model: Beginning with a Puzzlement, a Problem, or a Project
Chapter 12: Role Playing for the Study of Values
Part Five: The Personal Family of Models
Chapter 13: Nondirective Teaching: The Learner at the Center
Chapter 14: Inquiry Training
Part Six: The Behavioral Family of Models
Chapter 15: Using Explicit Instruction and Metacognition When Teaching Reading Comprehension
Chapter 16: Mastery Learning: Bit by Bit, Block by Block, We Climb Our Way to Mastery
Chapter 17: Direct Instruction: Applied Psychology Goes to Work
Part Seven: The Conditions of Learning and Educators as Curriculum Developers, Learners, and Leaders of School Renewal
Chapter 18: The Dynamics of Disequilibrium: Making Discomfort Productive
Chapter 19: The Conditions of Learning: Creating Curricula and Designing Instruction
Chapter 20: Teachers Coaching Teachers: Facilitating Learning and Neutralizing the Discomfort of Change
Appendix: Peer Coaching Guides
References and Related Literature
Index
Biography
Bruce Joyce is a practitioner–scholar in education, who has previously held professorships at the University of Delaware, USA; The University of Chicago, USA; The Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, Canada; and Teachers College, Columbia, USA.
Emily Calhoun, former Coordinator of the League of Professional Schools the University of Georgia, USA, is currently the director of The Phoenix Alliance in Saint Simons Island, Georgia, USA.
