New Designs for Teaching and Learning

Offers a practical survey of the most important trAnds in education--including critical thinking, cooperative learning, and portfolio assessment--and shows how they can be translated into classroom practice. 1. Introduction: Revitalizing Teaching
Part One: New Instructional Developments
2. Critical Thinking
3. Cooperative Learning
4. Electronic Learning
5. Assessment Alternatives
Part Two: Content in the Classroom
6. Integrated Language Arts
7. Mathematical Power
8. Scientific Literacy
9. The Arts
10. Social Responsibility
11. Conclusion: A Bottom-Up Approach to Reform DENNIS ADAMS is a professor in the Department of Childhood Studies and Reading at West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania. MARY HAMM is a professor of Education at San Francisco State University. New Designs for Teaching and Learning offers a practical survey of the most important trAnds in education--including critical thinking, cooperative learning, and portfolio assessment--and shows how they can be translated into classroom practice. The book will help educators design classroom programs that foster teamwork and thinking while getting children actively involved in their own learning.Providing specific classroom activities at the And of each chapter, Dennis Adams and Mary Hamm show how these new instructional developments can be specifically applied to the content areas. They suggest concepts and techniques that can be used in math, science, reading and writing, and the arts. They examine how electronic media such as television, computers, and interactive telecommunication are transforming learning. And they discuss the topic of social responsibility and citizenship education.Successful teaching goes beyond the mere transmission of knowledge. By presenting a more dynamic view of teaching and learning, the authors open a world of possibilities for today's teachers and students. New Designs for Teaching and Learning offers a practical survey of the most important trAnds in education--including critical thinking, cooperative learning, and portfolio assessment--and shows how they can be translated into classroom practice. The book will help educators design classroom programs that foster teamwork and thinking while getting children actively involved in their own learning.