Instructional Explanations in the Disciplines

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stein, Mary Kay (Editor), Kucan, Linda (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Teaching.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Educational Psychology.; Learning & Instruction.

In today’s climate of accountability and standards, increasing attention is focused on teacher "quality," with less emphasis on what teachers actually do to interest and engage students in learning. This path-breaking volume addresses this research problem with a clear definition and a con...

Table of Contents:

• Instructional Explanations in the Teaching and Learning of Science
• Introduction: Explaining Instructional Explanations
• What Kind of Explanation is a Model?
• Learning, Identity, and Instructional Explanations
• Learning Chemistry: What, When, and How?
• Negotiating the Goal of Museum Inquiry: How Families Engineer and Experiment
• Instructional Explanations in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
• A Framing of Instructional Explanations: Let Us Explain With You
• How and Why Do Teachers Explain Things the Way They Do?
• The Explanatory Power of Examples in Mathematics: Challenges for Teaching
• Using Designed Instructional Activities to Enable Novices to Manage Ambitious Mathematics Teaching
• Instructional Explanations in the Teaching and Learning of the Humanities
• Learning History and Learning Language: Focusing on Language in Historical Explanations to Support English Language Learners
• Instructional Explanations in a Legal Classroom: Are Students’ Argument Diagrams of Hypothetical Reasoning Diagnostic?
• Connecting with Art: How Families Talk About Art in a Museum Setting
• Developing Writing Skills Through Students Giving Instructional Explanations.