Fixing Instruction: Resolving Major Issues with a Core Body of Knowledge for Critical Instruction [Hardcover]

A professional core includes a common language of practice, foundation principles and skills, and related standards. Such a core is present in the medical, engineering, and legal professions. Instructionally, it is not present in the teaching profession. There is no core foundation for critical instruction. Such instruction, long sought but unrealized, leads students to think, read, and write critically for content comprehension. These issues obstruct critical instruction:

There is no uniform use of instructional terms.Conventional serialism-based instruction blocks the minds nature to think critically. Rote learning is the result.Teaching is based on thinking directed at subject matter. Yet, we practice without a universal foundation in either.Teacher preparation programs have no foundation courses for critical instruction.There are no teacher-educator, teacher, or student standards for critical thinking for comprehension, the basis of critical reading and writing.
These issues result in weak instructional preparation and practice and poor student achievement. Fixing Instruction resolves the issues. It provides, for the first time, teacher-educators, teacher-candidates, teachers, and professional developers with an explicit core body of knowledge for critical instruction.

Victor P Maiorana earned his doctorate in curriculum and instruction at New York University for his research on critical thinking and subject matter comprehension. For this work, he won a scholarship and leadership award, and a research award. Dr. Maiorana is the originator of mind grammar for subject matter, which develops and applies the minds innate ability to think critically to reading, writing, and comprehending content in all disciplines.

Fixing Instruction is a must read for all prospective classroom teachers and educators. It is a valuable tool to critique present instructional practices and foster the development of a core foundation for critical instruction. The conlӔ