Subject-Specific Instructional Methods and Activities

by Jere Brophy and Brophy Jere Brophy

This volume explores the tension between the search for generic principles of good teaching that cut across school subjects and the belief that portrayals of best practices ought to be framed separately for each subject. Its contributors all favor teaching in ways that encourage students to learn each subject with understanding of its big ideas, appreciation of its value, and acquisition of the disposition to apply it in their lives outside of school...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762306157
• ISBN13: 9780762306152
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"