What teachers need to know about teaching methods /
Westwood, Peter
What teachers need to know about teaching methods / Peter Westwood. - Melbourne: ACER Press, 2008. - (What teachers need to know about) .
Contents: I. Conceptualising learning and teaching -- Constructivism -- Active learning -- Deconstructing constructivism -- Direct teaching -- Direct instruction ((DI) -- Interactive whole-class teaching -- 2. Direct teaching methods: suitability for purpose -- Varieties of direct teaching -- Lectures -- Classroom mini lectures -- Teacher-directed lessons -- The important role of direct teaching -- 3. Student-centred methods: suitability for purpose -- Student-centred approaches -- Inquiry-based methods -- Discovery learning -- Problem-based learning -- Project-based learning -- Resource-based learning -- Computer-assisted learning -- 4. Teaching methods: suitability for students -- Young learners -- Gifted students -- Students with learning difficulties -- Students with disabilities -- 5. Effective teaching -- Process-product research -- Beyond process-product studies -- Key evidence from research on teacher effectiveness -- Criticisms of the effective teaching data -- Pedagogical skills of effective teachers -- Cooperative learning and the use of groups -- Peer tutoring and peer assistance -- 6. Assessment of learning -- Purposes of assessment -- Formative assessment -- Testing -- Curriculum-based assessment -- Outcomes-based education -- Assessment should lead to improved teaching -- 7. The gap between research and practice -- Research appears not to impress teachers -- Perpetuating the use of unproven methods -- Two effective models that are rarely used -- Perhaps the pendulum is beginning to swing -- Research based methods.
A teaching method is characterised by a set of principles, procedures or strategies to be implemented by teachers to achieve desired learning in students. These principles and procedures are determined partly by the nature of the subject matter to be taught, and partly by our beliefs or theories about how students learn. The period from the 1970s to 2000 saw a sudden growth in educational research exploring the effects of different approaches to teaching. Simultaneously, research in the field of psychology was continuing its investigations into how humans learn - how they acquire knowledge, how they process information, how they develop skills and strategies, how they think and reason. Gradually, evidence from these two separate fields of research has started to coalesce. Now, the appropriateness and efficacy of a particular teaching method can he considered in relation to the type of learning it is supposed to bring about, and in relation to characteristics of the learners. Research into methods is, of course, continuing: and debates arising from different theories of learning and how these impact upon methods are still occupying the pages of many educational psychology journals. This text aims to bring the current evidence and the debates into the hands of all teachers.
9780864319128
Evaluation methods
Teaching effectiveness
What teachers need to know about teaching methods / Peter Westwood. - Melbourne: ACER Press, 2008. - (What teachers need to know about) .
Contents: I. Conceptualising learning and teaching -- Constructivism -- Active learning -- Deconstructing constructivism -- Direct teaching -- Direct instruction ((DI) -- Interactive whole-class teaching -- 2. Direct teaching methods: suitability for purpose -- Varieties of direct teaching -- Lectures -- Classroom mini lectures -- Teacher-directed lessons -- The important role of direct teaching -- 3. Student-centred methods: suitability for purpose -- Student-centred approaches -- Inquiry-based methods -- Discovery learning -- Problem-based learning -- Project-based learning -- Resource-based learning -- Computer-assisted learning -- 4. Teaching methods: suitability for students -- Young learners -- Gifted students -- Students with learning difficulties -- Students with disabilities -- 5. Effective teaching -- Process-product research -- Beyond process-product studies -- Key evidence from research on teacher effectiveness -- Criticisms of the effective teaching data -- Pedagogical skills of effective teachers -- Cooperative learning and the use of groups -- Peer tutoring and peer assistance -- 6. Assessment of learning -- Purposes of assessment -- Formative assessment -- Testing -- Curriculum-based assessment -- Outcomes-based education -- Assessment should lead to improved teaching -- 7. The gap between research and practice -- Research appears not to impress teachers -- Perpetuating the use of unproven methods -- Two effective models that are rarely used -- Perhaps the pendulum is beginning to swing -- Research based methods.
A teaching method is characterised by a set of principles, procedures or strategies to be implemented by teachers to achieve desired learning in students. These principles and procedures are determined partly by the nature of the subject matter to be taught, and partly by our beliefs or theories about how students learn. The period from the 1970s to 2000 saw a sudden growth in educational research exploring the effects of different approaches to teaching. Simultaneously, research in the field of psychology was continuing its investigations into how humans learn - how they acquire knowledge, how they process information, how they develop skills and strategies, how they think and reason. Gradually, evidence from these two separate fields of research has started to coalesce. Now, the appropriateness and efficacy of a particular teaching method can he considered in relation to the type of learning it is supposed to bring about, and in relation to characteristics of the learners. Research into methods is, of course, continuing: and debates arising from different theories of learning and how these impact upon methods are still occupying the pages of many educational psychology journals. This text aims to bring the current evidence and the debates into the hands of all teachers.
9780864319128
Evaluation methods
Teaching effectiveness