PART I INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING AND LEARNING IN MIDDLE AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
MODULE 1 Today's Middle and Secondary Schools: Purpose, Organization, Structure, and Reform
Middle and Secondary Schools
Colonial Education: The First Schools
The Advent of Secondary Education: The Forerunners of Today's High Schools
Funding for Public Secondary Education
The Creation of Junior High Schools
The Creation of Middle Schools
The Changing Purpose of Education
Reform Initiatives
Early Reform Efforts
Goals 2000
No Child Left Behind
Reforming Middle Schools
Today's Middle and Secondary Schools
Organizing Education to Meet Students' Needs
Structuring Schools to Meet Students' Needs
Modifying the Curriculum to Facilitate Student Learning
Embracing Student Diversity to Meet Students' Needs
Preparing Teachers to Teach in a Diverse Classroom
Decision-Making and Thought-Processing Phases of Instruction
Accessing Community Resources to Meet Students' Needs: Telecommunications Networks, Members of the Community, and Parent Organizations
The Emergent Overall Picture
Your Emerging Teaching Style
Module 2 Middle and Secondary School Students
Adolescence
Culture and Its Impact on Education
The Classroom in a Nation of Increasing Diversity
Styles of Learning and Implications for Teaching
The Learning Cycle
Learning Capacities: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Meeting the Challenge: Recognizing and Providing for Student Differences
Instructional Practices That Provide for Student Differences: General Guidelines
Recognizing and Working with Exceptional Students
Guidelines for Working with Students with Special Needs in the Regular Classroom
Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
Additional Guidelines for Working with English Language Learners
Best Practices for Promoting Success for All Students
Recognizing and Working with Students Who Are Gifted
Recogning and Working with Students Who Take More Time But Are Willing to Try
Recognizing and Working with Recalcitrant Students
Teaching Toward Positive Character Development
Multitasking
PART TWO PLANNING FOR INSTRUCTION
Module 3 Establishing and Maintaining a Safe and Supportive Classroom Learning Environment
The Importance of Perceptions
Classroom Control: Its Meaning - Past and Present
Providing a Supportive Learning Environment
Preparation Provides Confidence and Success
Classroom Procedures and Guidelines for Acceptable Behavior
Using Positive Rewards
Managing Class Meetings
Student Misbehavior
Teacher-Caused Student Misbehavior: Scenarios for Review
Preventing a Ship from Sinking Is Much Easier Than Saving a Sinking One: Mistakes to Avoid
Module 4 Selecting Content and Preparing Objectives
Reasons for Planning Thoughtfully and Thoroughly
Components of Instructional Planning
Planning a Course
Student Textbooks
Multitext and Multireadings Approaches
Other Printed Materials
The Future for School Textbooks
Collaborative Planning
Preparing for the Year
Preparing for and Dealing with Controversy
Aims, Goals, and Objectives: A Clarification
Instructional Objectives and Their Relationship to Curriculum and Assessment
Preparing Instructional Objectives
Classifying Instructional Objectives
Using the Taxonomies
Learning That is Not Immediately Observable
Module 5 Preparing an Instructional Plan
Planning for Instruction: A Three-Level and Seven-Step Process
The Syllabus
The Instructional Unit
Curriculum Integration
Lesson Planning: Rationale and Assumptions
Constructing a Lesson Plan: Format, Components, and Samples
Basic Elements of a Lesson Plan
PART 3 SELECTING AND IMPLEMENTING INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
Module 6 Student-Centered Instructional Strategies
Principles of Classroom Instruction and Learning: A Synopsis
Selecting Learning Activities
The Total Class as a Group Enterprise
Learning in Pairs
Learning in Small Groups
Cooperative Learning
Teaching Thinking for Intelligent Behavior
Inquiry Teaching and Discovery Learning
Project-Centered Learning: Guiding Learning from Independent and Group Investigations, Papers, and Oral Reports
Writing Across the Curriculum
Learning by Educational Games
Integrating Strategies for Integrated Learning
Module 7 Teacher-Centered Instructional Strategies
Teacher Talk: Formal and Informal
Demonstration
Questioning
Whole-Class Discussion
Know
Equality in the Classroom
Characteristics
Learning from Assignments and Homework
Giving Students a Second Chance
Memorizing and Reviewing: Unavoidable Learning Strategies
Module 8 Media, Aids, and Resources
Printed Materials and Visual Displays
Media Tools
Computers and Computer-Based Instructional Tools
Distance Learning
PART 4 ASSESSMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
Module 9 Assessing and Reporting Student Achievement
Purposes and Principles of Assessment
Terms Used in Assessment
Assessing Student Learning: Three Avenues
Student Involvement in Assessment
Maintaining Records of Student Achievement
Grading and Marking Student Achievement
Testing for Achievement
Preparing Assessment Items
Types of Assessment Items: Descriptions, Examples, and Guidelines for Preparing and Using Them
Reporting Student Achievement
More About Parental Involvement and Home-School Connections
Module 10 Self-Assessment of Teaching and Continued Professional Development
Professional Development Through Field Experiences
Finding a Teaching Position
Professional Development Through Reflection and Self-Assessment
Professional Development Through Mentoring
Professional Development Through In-Service and Advanced Study
Professional Development Through Participation in Professional Organizations
Professional Development Through Communications with Other Teachers
Professional Development Through Summer and Off-Teaching Work Experience
Professional Development Through Micro Peer-Teaching
