Teacher and Student Behaviors

Keys to Success in Classroom Instruction

By (author) Terrance M. Scott, Regina Hirn, Justin Cooper

Publication date:

29 March 2017

Length of book:

130 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475829433

This book provides data and uses stories and personal insights gleaned from nearly 6,000 observations in real classrooms across the nation. The mix of data and descriptions provide a clear picture of the rich interaction of teacher and student behaviors – and how one predicts the other. Graphs and tables provide concrete visual representations of the often surprisingly low rates of effective instructional practices used in the average classroom. In addition to a description of how the large dataset was developed, there are descriptions of what it is like to visit multiple classrooms in different schools, what the data tells us about teaching and learning in our public school system, and what the implications are for pre-service teacher training, school professional development, research, and understanding interaction effects.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: A Logic for Evidence-Based Practices in Teaching and Learning
Chapter 2: What Goes On In Typical Classrooms?
Chapter 3: Instruction – Teacher Presentation, Use of Directions, and Instructional Grouping
Chapter 4: Engagement: Teacher and Student Interaction as a Predictor for Success
Chapter 5: Feedback: Positive and Negative Feedback Ratios as a Predictor for Success
Chapter 6: Mediating Variables: Do Teacher and Student Characteristics Make a Difference?
Chapter 7: Implications for the Field of Education
References
Appendices
About the Author

I have put this book on my best-book-shelf because the message is clear: To maximize the probability of student learning, teach explicitly, deliberately, and relentlessly. Don’t leave student learning to chance….take advantage of every precious instructional minute by engaging every student, creating maximum opportunities to respond, and giving frequent and effective feedback. The authors challenge you to set the teaching bar high, and make every effort to beat the odds.