Ninth edition published in 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

"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. Models of Teaching combines rationale and research with real-life examples and applications in the classroom, showing how teachers can improve student attainment. The volume contains all the major psychological and philosophical approaches to teaching and schooling, including thoroughly documented research on the models of teaching and their effects on student success, and offers teachers the tools to accelerate student learning. Features include: Three completely new chapters covering the origins of models in teaching, best practices for teachers coaching other teachers, and school renewal; Scenarios for each model to explore the concepts in action; Discussions of research relevant to each model throughout the text; Advice from the authors about the use of the models in teaching; Support for incorporating the Common Core Standards. With the aim of providing a strong impact on student achievement while keeping in line with the current emphasis on standards-based education, this classic resource will be essential reading for pre-service and new teachers. This text is supported by extensive multimedia materials, including video demonstrations of the models in action, PowerPoint slides and an extensive Instructor's Manual, available at www.modelsofteaching.org"-- Provided by publisher.