The Art of Interactive Teaching

Preface

Chapter 1 Interactive Teaching: The What, the Why and the How

Class Discussions and Class Discussions

Interactive Teaching - It's Not for Every Teacher

Choosing Interactive Teaching

Chapter 2 The Shape of Teaching and Learning in the Interactive Classroom

What's the Big Idea?

Searching for the Meaning of Big Ideas

Big Ideas Lead to the Generation of a Curriculum Task or Investigation

Small Group Work

Follow-up Studies

How Long, oh, How Long?

Chapter 3 Preparing for Interactive Teaching

Tolerating Dissonance

Maintaining and Relinquishing Control

Knowing Your Own Style

Establishing the Contract

Chapter 4 Scenes from Interactive Classrooms

The Train

Germs Make Me Sick!

The Hockey Card

Chapter 5 Basic Interactive Skills: Listening, Attending, Apprehending, Making Meaning

Now the Fun Begins

A Personal Training Program for Improving One's Listening and Attending Skills

Practice Tasks in Listening, Attending, Paraphrasing, and Being Non-Judgmental

Postgame Reflections on Simulations

Conclusion

Chapter 6 Basic Interactive skills: Responding, Saying Back, Paraphrasing, Interpreting

Waiting for Students to Express Their Ideas

Being Non-Judgmental in Accepting Students' Responses: Appreciating Students' Ideas

Conditions that Limit and Actually Crush Student Thinking

Becoming Aware of Differences in Responding

Self-assessment

Chapter 7 Basic Interactive Skills: Questioning

Unproductive Questions

Less-than-Productive Questions

Productive Questions

Guidelines for Productive Questions

Conclusion

Chapter 8 The Well-Orchestrated Discussion

Chapter 9 Reflecting in Action

It's Eezier With a Buddy

Appendix A: Practice in Listening, Attending, Paraphrasing, and Being Non-Judgmental

Appendix B: Practice in Listening, Attending, and Responding

Appendix C: Task Analysis

Appendix D: Analyzing Interactions

Appendix E: Cases

The Hockey Card

Germs Are Germs

The Case of Barry

Index