Interactive Modeling

Interactive Modeling

Author: Margaret Berry Wilson

Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools, Inc.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1892989530

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Be a more effective teacher by using this simple, yet transformative, technique for teaching essential academic and social skills, routines, and behaviors. Through Interactive Modeling, your students actively observe, model, and practice skills that can lead to higher, lasting achievements and kinder classrooms. You'll save time; they'll gain mastery!, You can use Interactive Modeling to help your students achieve success in: math, reading, writing, social studies, science, working in groups, making smooth transitions, using supplies carefully, test-taking, and more! Book jacket.


Instruction Modeling

Instruction Modeling

Author: George A. Khachatryan

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0190910704

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"Instruction modeling" is a leading method for designing blended learning programs: carefully study high-quality offline instruction and create online programs to recreate it on a larger scale. Instruction Modeling is both a practical guide to developing and implementing blended learning programs, and a first-hand account of the creation of one such program, Reasoning Mind.


Understanding Online Instructional Modeling: Theories and Practices

Understanding Online Instructional Modeling: Theories and Practices

Author: Zheng, Robert Z.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2007-10-31

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 159904725X

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Higher education is currently undergoing significant changes, and conditions in higher education reflect changing financial, social, and political conditions, which affect both faculty and students. Both the rising costs of education and changes from brick-and-mortar to technologically-driven programs often lead to a change from the traditional space-and-time bound institution to ones that offer cost-effective technologically enhanced programs. Online learning has become an integral and expansive factor in higher education?both in distance learning and as an adjunct to the traditional classroom. Understanding Online Instructional Modeling: Theories and Practices focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects of online learning by introducing a variety of online instructional models as well as best practices that help educators and professional trainers to better understand the dynamics of online learning.


Model Based Learning and Instruction in Science

Model Based Learning and Instruction in Science

Author: John Clement

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-12-07

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1402064942

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Anyone involved in science education will find that this text can enhance their pedagogical practice. It describes new, model-based teaching methods that integrate social and cognitive perspectives for science instruction. It presents research that describes how these new methods are applied in a diverse group of settings, including middle school biology, high school physics, and college chemistry classrooms. They offer practical tips for teaching the toughest of key concepts.


Instruction Modeling

Instruction Modeling

Author: George A. Khachatryan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-01-21

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0190910720

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"Blended learning" is an educational approach that combines online and face-to-face components in the classroom, and it is becoming popular in American schools. But the quality of these programs is inconsistent; some are based on scientific findings on how children learn, while others lack such support. In fact, very little reliable information is currently available on how to create, use, and measure the results of blended learning programs. Instruction Modeling is both a practical guide to developing and implementing blended learning programs and a first-hand account of the creation of one such program, Reasoning Mind. As Reasoning Mind cofounder and instructional designer George Khachatryan explains, instruction modeling is a leading method for designing blended learning programs: carefully study high-quality offline instruction and build online programs to recreate it on a larger scale. This book describes in practical terms how to create a blended learning program, exploring a wide range of scientifically-supported approaches. Some programs draw on cognitive psychology, for instance, others on research in gaming, and still others on modern statistical methods such as "big data." Instruction modeling is unique amongst these approaches in that it relies above all on a deep understanding of the techniques and qualities of the world's best teachers. Making a strong case for broader use of instruction modeling, this book will be of special interest to teachers and education researchers, and an indispensable resource for those interested in the technique for its application in new contexts.


Learning How to Teach Mathematical Modeling in School and Teacher Education

Learning How to Teach Mathematical Modeling in School and Teacher Education

Author: Rita Borromeo Ferri

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-26

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 3319680722

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This timely resource fills a gap in existing literature on mathematical modeling by presenting both theory- and evidence-based ideas for its teaching and learning. The book outlines four key professional competencies that must be developed in order to effectively and appropriately teach mathematical modeling, and in so doing it seeks to reduce the discrepancies between educational policy and educational research versus everyday teaching practice. Among the key competencies covered are: Theoretical competency for practical work. Task competency for instructional flexibility. Instructional competency for effective and quality lessons. Diagnostic competency for assessment and grading. Learning How to Teach Mathematical Modeling in School and Teacher Education is relevant to practicing and future mathematics teachers at all levels, as well as teacher educators, mathematics education researchers, and undergraduate and graduate mathematics students interested in research based methods for teaching mathematical modeling.


Comprehension Going Forward

Comprehension Going Forward

Author: Ellin Oliver Keene

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780325041636

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Examines the characteristics of effective comprehension instruction, explores the range of applications it has for students, and discusses areas for improvement.


Modelling-based Teaching in Science Education

Modelling-based Teaching in Science Education

Author: John K. Gilbert

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-05-30

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 3319290398

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This book argues that modelling should be a component of all school curricula that aspire to provide ‘authentic science education for all’. The literature on modelling is reviewed and a ‘model of modelling’ is proposed. The conditions for the successful implementation of the ‘model of modelling’ in classrooms are explored and illustrated from practical experience. The roles of argumentation, visualisation, and analogical reasoning, in successful modelling-based teaching are reviewed. The contribution of such teaching to both the learning of key scientific concepts and an understanding of the nature of science are established. Approaches to the design of curricula that facilitate the progressive grasp of the knowledge and skills entailed in modelling are outlined. Recognising that the approach will both represent a substantial change from the ‘content-transmission’ approach to science teaching and be in accordance with current best-practice in science education, the design of suitable approaches to teacher education are discussed. Finally, the challenges that modelling-based education pose to science education researchers, advanced students of science education and curriculum design, teacher educators, public examiners, and textbook designers, are all outlined.


Teaching Mathematical Modelling: Connecting to Research and Practice

Teaching Mathematical Modelling: Connecting to Research and Practice

Author: Gloria Ann Stillman

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-10-27

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9400765401

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This book provides readers with an overview of recent international research and developments in the teaching and learning of modelling and applications from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. There is a strong focus on pedagogical issues for teaching and learning of modelling as well as research into teaching and practice. The teaching of applications of mathematics and mathematical modelling from the early years through primary and secondary school and at tertiary level is rising in prominence in many parts of the world commensurate with an ever-increasing usage of mathematics in business, the environment, industry and everyday life. The authors are all members of the International Community of Teachers of Mathematical Modelling and Applications and important researchers in mathematics education and mathematics. The book will be of interest to teachers, practitioners and researchers in universities, polytechnics, teacher education, curriculum and policy.​


Ambitious Science Teaching

Ambitious Science Teaching

Author: Mark Windschitl

Publisher: Harvard Education Press

Published: 2020-08-05

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1682531643

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2018 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wide range of science subjects and grade levels are represented. The book is organized around four sets of core teaching practices: planning for engagement with big ideas; eliciting student thinking; supporting changes in students’ thinking; and drawing together evidence-based explanations. Discussion of each practice includes tools and routines that teachers can use to support students’ participation, transcripts of actual student-teacher dialogue and descriptions of teachers’ thinking as it unfolds, and examples of student work. The book also provides explicit guidance for “opportunity to learn” strategies that can help scaffold the participation of diverse students. Since the success of these practices depends so heavily on discourse among students, Ambitious Science Teaching includes chapters on productive classroom talk. Science-specific skills such as modeling and scientific argument are also covered. Drawing on the emerging research on core teaching practices and their extensive work with preservice and in-service teachers, Ambitious Science Teaching presents a coherent and aligned set of resources for educators striving to meet the considerable challenges that have been set for them.