The Art of Interactive Teaching Listening, Responding, Questioning [Hardcover]

In this book, Selma Wassermann, international expert on classroom interactions, sets the stage for the relevance of the interactive teaching method, provides data and classroom examples that support its effectiveness at all student learning levels and in different subject areas, and offers detailed and specific help for teachers who are considering embarking on this approach to teaching. Coverage includes teaching to the big ideas, preparing students, and the basics of developing good listening, responding, and questioning skills in an interactive discussion. A chapter on learning to become reflective practitioners deals with how teachers may become more aware of what they are saying and in better control of framing responses and questions in the art of interactive teaching. The book draws from the authors long experience and study of interactive teaching using the case method rooted in the Harvard Business Schools approach to large class instruction.

Preface

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

Class Discussions and Class Discussions

Interactive Teaching  Its Not for Every Teacher

Choosing Interactive Teaching

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

Whats 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

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