This fully updated edition of a classic text explores established approaches to teaching that are grounded in research and experience to ensure high levels of learning.

Foreword   Preface   Preamble   Part One: Models of Teaching and Communities of Learners  Chapter 1: The Search for Effective Ways To Educate-Introducing the Models of Teaching  Chapter 2: Creating Communities of Expert Learners: Building on Our Students' Capacity To Learn  Part Two: Basic Information-Processing Models of Teaching    Chapter 3: Learning to Learn Inductively: Exploring Data Sets, Creating Categories, and Developing Concepts  Chapter 4: Scientific Inquiry: Building Learning Around Investigations and Teaching the Culture of Sciencing  Chapter 5: Concept Attainment: The Explicit Teaching of Concepts   Chapter 6: The Picture Word Inductive Model: Developing Literacy through Inquiry   Part Three: Special Purpose Information-Processing Models  Chapter 7: Synectics: Teaching the Left Brain to Put the Right Side to Work  Chapter 8: Memorization: Getting the Facts Straight, Now and for the Long Term  Chapter 9: Using Advance Organizers to Design Presentations--From Lectures to Courses, Including Media  Part Four: The Social Family of Models of Teaching  Chapter 10: Partners in Learning: Getting Everybody on Board  Chapter 11: Group Investigation--the Classic Democratic-Process-Inquiry-Driven Model: Beginning with a Puzzlement, a Problem, or a Project  Chapter 12: Role Playing for the Study of Values  Part Five: The Personal Family of Models  Chapter 13: Nondirective Teaching: The Learner at the Center    Chapter 14: Inquiry Training  Part Six: The Behavioral Family of Models  Chapter 15: Using Explicit Instruction and Metacognition When Teaching Reading Comprehension   Chapter 16: Mastery Learning: Bit by Bit, Block by Block, We Climb Our Way to Mastery  Chapter 17: Direct Instruction: Applied Psychology Goes to Work   Part Seven: The Conditions of Learning and Educators as Curriculum Developers, Learners, and Leaders of School Renewal  Chapter 18: The Dynamics of Disequilibrium: Making Discomfort Productive  Chapter 19: The Conditions of Learning: Creating Curricula and Designing Instruction  Chapter 20: Teachers Coaching Teachers: Facilitating Learning and Neutralizing the Discomfort of Change  Appendix: Peer Coaching Guides  References and Related Literature   Index