Victor P. Maiorana

Fixing Instruction (eBook, ePUB)

Resolving Major Issues with a Core Body of Knowledge for Critical Instruction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A professional core includes a common language of practice, foundation principles and skills, and related standards. Such a core is present in the medical, engineering, and legal professions. Instructionally, it is not present in the teaching profession. There is no core foundation for critical instruction. Such instruction, long sought but unrealized, leads students to think, read, and write critically for content comprehension. These issues obstruct critical instruction: There is no uniform use of instructional terms.Conventional serialism-based instruction blocks the mind's nature to think critically. Rote learning is the result.Teaching is based on thinking directed at subject matter. Yet, we practice without a universal foundation in either.Teacher preparation programs have no foundation courses for critical instruction.There are no teacher-educator, teacher, or student standards for critical thinking for comprehension, the basis of critical reading and writing. These issues result in weak instructional preparation and practice and poor student achievement. Fixing Instruction resolves the issues. It provides, for the first time, teacher-educators, teacher-candidates, teachers, and professional developers with an explicit core body of knowledge for critical instruction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475822304
• Artikelnr.: 44909531

Autorenporträt

Victor P. Maiorana earned his doctorate in curriculum and instruction at New York University, for which he won a scholarship and leadership award, and a research award, for his work on critical thinking and subject matter comprehension. Dr. Maiorana is the originator of mind grammar for subject matter, which develops and applies the mind's innate ability to think critically to reading, writing, and comprehending content critically in all disciplines.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 (Issue 1) - The Profession Lacks a Language of Instruction
Chapter 2 (Issue 2) - Instructional Practice is Inherently Weak - The
Hidden Story
Chapter 3 (Issue 3) - The Critical Thinking Movement Has Not Overcome
Serialism
Chapter 4 (Issue 4) - Teacher Preparation Does Not Address Critical
Learning and Instruction
Chapter 5 (Issue 5) - The Profession Has No Standards for Thinking
Chapter 6 - Evidence of How the Issues Block Critical Instruction and
Learning
Chapter 7 - Core Body of Knowledge for Critical Instruction
Glossary
Index