1st Edition
The Art of Interactive Teaching Listening, Responding, Questioning
Preface
Chapter 1 Interactive Teaching: The What, the Why and the How
Class Discussions and Class Discussions
Interactive Teaching — It’s Not for Every Teacher
Choosing Interactive Teaching
Chapter 2 The Shape of Teaching and Learning in the Interactive Classroom
What’s the Big Idea?
Searching for the Meaning of Big Ideas
Big Ideas Lead to the Generation of a Curriculum Task or Investigation
Small Group Work
Follow-up Studies
How Long, oh, How Long?
Chapter 3 Preparing for Interactive Teaching
Tolerating Dissonance
Maintaining and Relinquishing Control
Knowing Your Own Style
Establishing the Contract
Chapter 4 Scenes from Interactive Classrooms
The Train
Germs Make Me Sick!
The Hockey Card
Chapter 5 Basic Interactive Skills: Listening, Attending, Apprehending, Making Meaning
Now the Fun Begins
A Personal Training Program for Improving One’s Listening and Attending Skills
Practice Tasks in Listening, Attending, Paraphrasing, and Being Non-Judgmental
Postgame Reflections on Simulations
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Basic Interactive skills: Responding, Saying Back, Paraphrasing, Interpreting
Waiting for Students to Express Their Ideas
Being Non-Judgmental in Accepting Students’ Responses: Appreciating Students’ Ideas
Conditions that Limit and Actually Crush Student Thinking
Becoming Aware of Differences in Responding
Self-assessment
Chapter 7 Basic Interactive Skills: Questioning
Unproductive Questions
Less-than-Productive Questions
Productive Questions
Guidelines for Productive Questions
Conclusion
Chapter 8 The Well-Orchestrated Discussion
Chapter 9 Reflecting in Action
It’s Eezier With a Buddy
Appendix A: Practice in Listening, Attending, Paraphrasing, and Being Non-Judgmental
Appendix B: Practice in Listening, Attending, and Responding
Appendix C: Task Analysis
Appendix D: Analyzing Interactions
Appendix E: Cases
The Hockey Card
Germs Are Germs
The Case of Barry
Index
Biography
Selma Wassermann is Professor Emerita, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
