Middle and High School Teaching: Methods, Standards, and Best Practices » (1st Edition)

James A. Duplass (Ph.D., St. Louis University) is a professor at the University of South Florida (USF), a Carnegie I urban university. The social studies program at USF is NCATE and NCSS accredited, and much of the material for this book is a result of research to develop a new curriculum for social studies education. The author has published numerous articles on social studies instruction, served as editor of a regional journal, and authored a book, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHING: STANDARDS: METHODS, AND BEST PRACTICES (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). Dr. Duplass teaches elementary and middle school social studies methods courses to undergraduate and graduate students and a philosophical foundation of social studies education course for doctoral students.

Middle and High School Teaching: Methods, Standards, and Best Practices is an interactive textbook that is fully integrated with PowerPoint slides, a web site, assessments to meet NCATE and INSTASC standards, and basal secondary level textbook chapters for each of the content areas. The text includes a chapter on standards, history, current issues and strategies for each of the major content areas. Providing unique coverage for differentiated instruction at the college level, the text integrates standards and methods for general and specific subject matter by drawing on professional education association web sites, covering traditional methods topics, and providing more than 100 authentic assignments. The text is ideal for courses in secondary general methods, curriculum and instruction, introduction to teaching, or for the first course of a two-part sequence in specific methods. Web-based resources, including PDF copies of middle and high school basal textbook content, lesson-planning templates, ERIC documents for current issues, and PowerPoint slides for each chapter, enable professors to easily choreograph their instruction for classes of mixed majors or single major, and courses of varying size that may be taught completely or partly online.

Contents I. The Teacher's Role and Context
1.The Teaching Profession and Craft
2.Challenges for a New Teacher
3.Standards-Based Education
4.The Middle School Environment
5.The High School Environment II. The Effective Teacher
6.Learning Theories and Principles
7.Student and Teacher Dispositions to Learning
8.Teaching in a Diverse Classroom
9.Teacher and Student Communication
10.Inspiring and Motivating Middle and High School Students III. Knowledge and Literacy
11.Defining Knowledge
12.General and Content Area Literacy
13.Reading Approaches for Content Area Teachers
14.Writing Approaches for Content Area Teachers IV. Organizing to Teach Middle and High School Students
15.Student Behavior and Effective Learning Environments
16.Classroom Management
17.Home-School Relations
18.Preparing for the First Day of Class
19.Planning Efficient Instruction
20.The Choreography of Daily Instruction V. Instructional Approaches
21.Active Learning Strategies
22.Concept Formation
23.Direct and Indirect Instruction
24.Critical Thinking and Reasoning
25.Selected Models of Instructional Approaches VI. Methods
26.Modeling and Metacognition
27.Lecture and Note Taking
28.Questioning
29.Analogues
30.Graphic Organizers
31.Group Learning
32.Discussions and Case Studies
33.Self-Directed Instruction
34.Practice and Homework
35.Field Trips and Guest Speakers
36.Media- and Computer-Based Resources VII. Assessing Student Learning
37.Assessment
38.Alternative Assessment
39.Traditional Assessment
40.Grading VIII. Content AreaTrends, Standards, and Teaching Methods
41.Current Trends in Content Areas
42.English Education
43.Mathematics Education
44.Science Education
45.Social Studies Education
46.World/Foreign Language Education
47.Fine and Performing Arts Education
48.Physical and Health Education