Constructivist Methods for the Secondary Classroom: Engaged Minds

This comprehensive, yet concise, book provides a practical pre-service training program across all secondary subjects by grounding a constructivist approach in seven discrete instructional areas. This groundbreaking book is the only teacher education text with components that shift the focus from a teacher-centered to a student-centered context-while infusing a key component of successful active student learning. Engaged Minds provides strategies with specific examples for moving through lower levels of concrete information and applications to the higher, more abstract, levels of synthesis and evaluation. This dynamic book takes a roll-up-your-sleeves approach-yet constructivist ideology permeates this rigorous, accessible and imaginative training program. For teachers of secondary education.

A textbook and guide for teachers in training, this book explains the constructivist theory of education and its applications and methods. Organized as a series of 15 lessons, the book discusses the nature of teaching and learning, the cognitive process, deductive and inductive frameworks, planning, questioning skills, peer-group learning, technology, the ILPE method, teaching concepts, directed discussion, exploratory discussion, reflective discussion, interactive presentation, unit planning, assessment, and re-socializing. Gabler is a consultant; Schroeder directs the secondary education program at Augustana College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR