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Madeline Hunter's Mastery Teaching
Increasing Instructional Effectiveness in Elementary and Secondary Schools
Second Edition
- Robin Hunter - Santa Susana Elementary School, Simi Valley, CA
June 2004 | 176 pages | Corwin
This exciting new edition by educator Robin Hunter updates and expands the original book's scope to encompass teaching for independent learning, an essential skill in today's differentiated classroom and for all who value successful lifelong learning. Every educator-master teacher, classroom novice, student teacher, or teacher educator-will find this updated classic to be a refreshingly direct introduction to, or reminder of, the basic principles of effective instruction for academic excellence.
Features and benefits:
} updates Madeline Hunter's classic text for today's differentiated classroom.
} features Madeline Hunter's widely recommended seven-step plan for effective instruction (sometimes also called "direct instruction").
} integrates instruction, learning, motivation, guided practice, behaviour, assessment, and more into a comprehensive and effective model for classroom teaching.
} features teaching tips, classroom examples, classic quotations, recommended readings, a new comprehensive index to the complete text, and a Trainer's Guide for each chapter.
} new to this edition: text updates throughout; new chapter on teaching for independent learning in the differentiated classroom; classic quotations; boxed features; extensive bibliography of recommended readings; comprehensive index.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction to the Original Edition
About the Authors
1. Decisions in Teaching
2. Increasing Your Students' Motivation Part I
3. Increasing Your Students' Motivation Part II
4. Getting Students Set to Learn
5. Providing Information Effectively
6. Teaching to Both Halves of the Brain
7. Modeling What You Mean
8. Making Material Meaningful
9. Checking Your Students' Understanding
10. Practice Doesn't Make Perfect: Designing Effective Practice
11. Guiding Your Students' Initial Practice
12. Extending Your Students' Thinking
13. Dignifying Errors to Promote Learning
14. Using Time to Achieve More Learning
15. Teaching So Students Remember
16. Teaching for Transfer
17. Teaching for Independent Learning
Recommended Reading
Index
"I never would have survived teaching without Madeline Hunter."
Thompson School District, Loveland, CO