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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797601003321
• Autore: McCain Ted D. E.
• 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 Personâ€?""; ""How I Discovered I was Producing “Highly Educated Useless Peopleâ€?""; ""School Skills""; ""Real-World Skills""; ""“Stand and Deliverâ€? Lecture-Style Teaching""; ""The Myth of Postsecondary Education""; ""Itâ€?s Time to Rethink How We Teach""; ""Chapter 2 - Six Ways to Teach for Independent and Higher Learning""; ""Resisting the Temptation to “Tellâ€?""; ""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.