Literacy And Learning

Contents I. The Contexts of Teaching and Learning 1. Teacher as Learner Becoming a Content-Area Teacher How Learning and Literacy Fit with Content-Area Teaching Education for the Twenty-First Century 2. Students as Learners Who Are the Students in Classrooms? What Do Students Bring to Classrooms? How Standardized Tests Can Be Used Fairly for Your Students as Learners 3. Choices and Decisions for Content Learning Choices and Decisions About Materials Choices and Decisions About Pedagogy Lesson Plans: Combining Content, Strategies, Materials, and Pedagogy A Generic Lesson Plan Format as Applied to Modeling and Explaining Content and Strategy in Tandem Information and Resources II. Teaching Tools for Strategic Learning 4. Generating Ideas: Building on Background Knowledge Strategies and Tools for Activating Prior Experiences and Prior Knowledge Strategies and Tools for Previewing and Predicting Strategies and Tools for Exploring New Vocabulary Purpose Setting and Monitoring: Two Underlying and Ongoing Strategies A Checklist for Monitoring Strategies for Generating Ideas 5. Interacting with Ideas: Comprehending and Constructing Knowledge The Overall Strategy: Finding and Interpreting Information--Making Connections The Importance of Questioning Strategies and Tools That Emphasize Text-Based Connections Strategies and Tools That Emphasize Schema-Based Connections Three Supporting Strategies and Tools Purpose Setting and Monitoring During the Interacting with Ideas Phase (Underlying and Ongoing Strategies A Checklist for Monitoring Strategies for Interacting with Ideas 6. Refining Ideas: Studying and Clarifying Knowledge Strategies and Tools for Organizing Ideas and Enhancing Prior Knowledge Strategies and Tools for Evaluating Ideas and Reconstructing Prior Knowledge Communicating Learning to Different Audiences Purpose Setting and Monitoring During the Refining Ideas Phase(Underlying and Ongoing Strategies A Checklist for Monitoring Strategies for Refining Ideas 7. Linking the Phases: Learning Through Research Projects Using Research Projects for Learning Sample Lesson Plan One: A Research Project to Assemble Known Facts and Interpretations Sample Lesson Plan Two: A Research Project to Investigate an Issue or a Problem Information and Resources III. Enhancing Learning Through the Disciplines 8. Designing Curriculum for Learning: Teaching for Major Understandings Defining Curriculum The Standards Movement and Curriculum Models for Curriculum Development Applying Standards to the Teaching Profession: A Look Ahead to Chapter 12 9. Single Discipline-Based Learning and Literacy Common Concerns Among the Disciplines Discipline-Specific Concerns and Related Literacy Strategies Sample Unit Plans: Sample Single Discipline Unit for the Middle School Sample Single Discipline Unit for the High School 10. Coordinated Curriculum: Enhancing Learning Among Disciplines An Overview of Coordinated Curriculum Sample Unit Plans: Sample Coordinated Discipline Unit for the High School Sample Coordinated Discipline Unit for the Middle School 11. Integrated Curriculum What Do We Mean by Integrated Curriculum? One Model for the Design and Development of Integrated Curriculum Working with Other Teachers: The Importance of Teams to Integrated Curriculum Two Sample Integrated Thematic Units Sample Unit Plans Sample Middle School Unit: "Our Environment: Home, School, Town, Planet Earth" Sample High School Unit: "Immigration and Cultural Diversity: Are We Still a Nation of Immigrants?" 12. Continuing to Grow as a Reflective Professional Thinking About Your Own Teaching and Learning Taking an Inquiring Stance: Learning from Your Own Teaching and from Your Learners Joining Additional Communities of Learners Information and ResourcesKaren Kuelthau Allan is the author of 'Literacy And Learning', published 1999 under ISBN 9780395746462 and ISBN 0395746469.