Commonsense Questions About Instruction - The Answers Can Provide Essential Steps to Improvement

Parents want teachers to explain how they instruct children. They become annoyed when the teachers are silent or surly. Parents counter with explicit, common sense questions: how do teachers arouse interest, design curricula, reinforce discipline, assign grades, designate textbooks, and select technology? This book examines the parents questions, the answers they elicited, the allies they attracted, and the improvements they initiated.

List of contents

Preface: Have Common Sense Questions Affected Teaching?
Chapter 1: Why Ask Shrewd Questions?
Chapter 2: What Is Instruction's Goal?
Chapter 3: What Are the Fundamental Subjects?
Chapter 4: What Prods Learning?
Chapter 5: How Complex Is Classroom Discipline?
Chapter 6: What Are the Right Questions about Textbooks?
Chapter 7: How Much Technology Do Teachers Need?
Chapter 8: Do Grades Matter?
Chapter 9: What Prods Politicians to Collaborate on Schools?
Chapter 10: How Much Data on Teachers Is Needed?
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About the author

Gerard Giordano is professor at the University of North Florida and has written more than a dozen books about education. His last five books, which were published by Rowman & Littlefield Education, focused on the case method.

Product details

• Authors: Gerard Giordano, Giordano Gerard
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2014
• EAN: 9781475805093
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-0509-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Administration / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies