1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822069903321

Autore

McCain Ted D. E.

Titolo

Teaching for tomorrow : teaching content and problem-solving skills / / Ted McCain ; foreword by Frank S. Kelly ; cover designer, Michael Dubowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-4833-5189-0

1-4522-0730-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (112 p.)

Disciplina

373.1102

Soggetti

High school teaching

Problem solving - Study and teaching (Secondary)

School-to-work transition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1 - What Skills Will Students Need for the 21st Century?""; ""How I Discovered I was a “Highly Educated Useless Person�""; ""How I Discovered I was Producing “Highly Educated Useless People�""; ""School Skills""; ""Real-World Skills""; ""“Stand and Deliver� Lecture-Style Teaching""; ""The Myth of Postsecondary Education""; ""It�s Time to Rethink How We Teach""; ""Chapter 2 - Six Ways to Teach for Independent and Higher Learning""; ""Resisting the Temptation to “Tell�""

""Providing Context to Content""""Fostering Independent Thinking""; ""Moving to Problem Solving""; ""The Shift from Telling to Discovery""; ""Transforming Your Curriculum with Real-World Role Play""; ""The Role of Technology in Teaching for Tomorrow""; ""Progressively Withdrawing from Helping Students""; ""The Fear of Failure""; ""Reevaluating Evaluation""; ""Chapter 3 - Teaching Students How to Solve Problems""; ""The 4 Ds of Problem Solving""; ""Step One: Define""; ""Step Two: Design""; ""Step Three: Do""; ""Step Four: Debrief""; ""Teacher Evaluation of Process Skills""; ""Time Management""



""Project Management""""Research""; ""Project Design""; ""Teamwork""; ""Student Evaluation of Process Skills""; ""Putting it All Together""; ""A New Role for Teachers""; ""A New Way to Evaluate""; ""Evaluating the Process""; ""Evaluating Personal Attributes""; ""Making the Transition to a New Teaching Approach""; ""Preparing for Success in the 21st Century: Problem Solving, Role Playing, and Reality Simulation""; ""References""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

McCain concisely lays out the argument for preparing students for their world, guiding them to become independent and successful critical thinkers.

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0233907

Titolo

Polarization Correlometry of Scattering Biological Tissues and Fluids / V. T. Bachinskyi … [et al.]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : Springer, 2020

Titolo uniforme

Polarization Correlometry of Scattering Biological Tissues and Fluids

Descrizione fisica

vi, 76 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

92-XX - Biology and other natural sciences [MSC 2020]

92C05 - Biophysics [MSC 2020]

00A79 (77-XX) - Physics [MSC 2020]

78A60 - Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia