Guided Instruction by Douglas Fisher
You know that repeating the same words and the same instructions or simply announcing the answers to questions doesn't help students learn. How do you get past the predictable and really teach your kids how to learn?Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey say that helping students develop immediate and lifelong learning skills is best achieved through guided instruction, which they define as saying or doing the just-right thing to get the learner to do cognitive work in other words, gradually and successfully transferring knowledge and the responsibility for learning to students through scaffolds for learning. In this helpful and informative book, they explain how guided instruction fits your classroom and works for your students.
Their four-part system for implementation consists of these elements:
* Questioning to check for understanding.
* Prompting to facilitate students' thinking processes and processing.
* Cueing to shift students' attention to focus on specific information, errors, or partial understandings.
* Explaining and modeling when students do not have sufficient knowledge to complete tasks on their own.
Each element is thoroughly explained and illustrated with numerous examples drawn from the authors' extensive experience in the classroom and their observations of hundreds of expert teachers, as well as a broad sampling of relevant research. Aimed at teachers at all grade levels, across the curriculum, Guided Instruction will help you provide timely and meaningful scaffolds that boost students to higher levels of understanding and accomplishment.
Nancy Frey, PhD, is a professor of literacy at San Diego State University's Department of Teacher Education. She has received the National Reading Conference's Early Career Achievement Award and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities' Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Education as a co-recipient. Dr. Frey teaches primary and secondary reading instruction, literacy in core areas, and helping children alongside various learning needs in San Diego State's teacher-credentialing and reading specialist programs, in addition to publishing with her colleague Douglas Fisher. She is a California-certified special educator and reading specialist who has the honor of learning every day from and alongside the kids and teachers at Health Sciences High and Middle College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781416610687 |
| ISBN 10 | 1416610685 |
| Title | Guided Instruction |
| Author | Douglas Fisher |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development |
| Year published | 2010-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 139 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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