目錄
Introduction
Recommended Design Features
Idea #1:Design instruction so that students engage in routine practice in internalizing and applying the concepts they are learning (and in evaluating their understanding of each)
Idea #2:Teach students how to assess their reading
Idea #3:Teach students how to assess their writing
Idea #4:Teach students how to assess their speaking
Idea #5:Teach students how to assess their listening
idea #6:Design tests with the improvements of student thinking in mind
Idea #7:Make the course "work-intensive"for the students, but not for you
Idea #8:Use engaged lecture
Idea #9:Require an intellectual journal (when it is relevant to your class)
Orientation (first few days)
Idea #10:Give students a thorough orientation to the course
Idea #11:Develop a syllabus which highlights your expectations for the students
Idea #12:Give students grade profiles
Idea #13:Use a"student understandings"form
Idea #14:Explain to the students, when orienting them to the class, what will happen on a typical class day (and why)
Idea #15:Explain the key concepts of the course explicitly during the first couple of class meetings
Idea #16:Discuss class time as a time in which the students will PRACTICE thinking (within the content) using the fundamental concepts and principles of the field
Idea #17: Make the point that the content is a SYSTEM of interconnected ideas
Idea #18:Think of yourself as a coach
Idea #19:Discuss the textbook as the thinking of the author
Daily Emphasis
Idea #20:Encourage students to think--quite explicitly--about their thinking
Idea #21:Encourage students to think of content as a form of thinking
Idea #22:Relate content whenever possible to issues, problems, and practical situations in the lives of the students
Idea #23:Target common student disabilities using specific strategies that take them into account
Idea #24:Use tactics that encourage active learning
Idea #25:Routinely ask questions that probe student understanding of the content
Idea #26:Model skilled thinking for your students
Idea #27:Cultivate important intellectual traits in instruction
Idea #28:Bring intellectual standards into daily use
Idea #29:Have students role play ideas other than their own
Idea #30:Systematically question students using a Socratic approach
Epilogue: Summarize the ideas above in brief to make the whole more intelligible
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