David Marshak

Improving Teaching in the High School Block Period (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Are you one of the tens of thousands of high school teachers making the transition to block scheduling? With this book, you can learn how to adjust and improve your teaching skills in the block period. Eleven high school teachers in public high schools compiled studies based upon their experiences. The result? Practical research studies that focus on the transition from short periods to block periods, innovative and complex uses of time within the period, structural innovations in programs, and utilizing an instructional coach to improve teaching and learning in block periods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216298779
• Artikelnr.: 75141003

Autorenporträt

David Marshak is Associate Professor of Education at Seattle University, Washington. He is the author and editor of numerous education publications, including the hm Learning & Study Skills Programs published by ScarecrowEducation.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Ninth Graders and the Block Period
Chapter 2 Transitions: Helping Ninth Graders Adapt Successfully to Block
Periods
Chapter 3 Teaching Ninth Graders in the Block Schedule: A Search for Better
Instructional Practices
Part 4 Teaching and Learning in the Block Period
Chapter 5 Effective Sequencing of Varied Teaching / Learning Activities in
Block Periods
Chapter 6 Participation and Problem Solving: Using the Block Period to
Raise the Quality of Student Participation
Chapter 7 Teaching Work World Components in the High School Science
Classroom
Chapter 8 Motivating the Alternative Learner in 100-Minute Periods
Chapter 9 Cross-Age Teaching in Block Periods High School Students Teaching
Elementary Students
Part 10 Structural Innovations and Professional Development
Chapter 11 Student Attitude and Motivation in a Two Year Integrated
Curriculum, Block Period High School Program
Chapter 12 The Instructional Coach's Role in Changing Instructional
Practices in Block Periods