Improving Instruction - Best Practices Told Through Teacher Stories

This book provides examples of how K-12 teachers and other instructors improve their instruction. Their stories illustrate that they do not follow the tenets of the social science improvement paradigm, which was proposed by education professors in the 1950s and has been promoted by policymakers since the 1970s. Instead, these stories illustrate that teachers improve instruction by bringing the six virtues of the educated person to their dealings with students. In other words, their stories illustrate an aesthetic improvement paradigm.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1
Chapter 1: Stories from 5 elementary school teachers
Chapter 2: Stories from 4 middle school teachers
Chapter 3: Stories from 8 high school teachers
Part 2
Chapter 4: Stories from a GED tutor, a physical therapist, 2 athletic coaches, and a piano teacher
Chapter 5: Stories from 2 music teachers, a pastor, a Goodwill trainer and a Team building consultant
Bibliography
About the author

About the author

J. Casey Hurley retired from Western Carolina University, where he taught graduate and undergraduate education classes for thirty years. He is the author of The Six Virtues of the Educated Person (2009).

Summary

This book provides examples of how K-12 teachers and other instructors improve their instruction.

Product details

• Authors: J. Casey Hurley
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781475858686
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-5868-6
• No. of pages: 120
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Professional Development, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, teacher training, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Social sciences, Educational: Social sciences, social studies, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Social Science, evolution of teaching;reluctant learners;student discipline