Table of contents:
Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Aims and Content, Unit 1: What is Explaining? - Practical Activity (1), Main Features - Discussion Activity (2), The Pupil's Perspective summary - Practical Activity (3), Unit 2: Strategies of Explanation - Written Activity (4), Different Approaches - The Broad Strategies - Written Activity followed by Discussion (5)- Practical Activity (6), Unit 3: Analysing Explanations - Quantitative analysis - Qualitative analysis - Practical Activity (7) - Levels of thought - Pupils explaining - Practical Activity followed by Discussion (8) - Using Schedules - Practical Activity followed by Discussion (9), Unit 4: Knowing the Subject Matter - Different kinds of subject matter? Written Activity followed by Practical Activity (10) - Explaining concepts - Written Explanations - Written Activity followed by Practical Activity (12) - Coping Strategies - Written Activity (13), Unit 5: Effective Explaining - Main features of effective explaining - Pupils' perspective - Discover, or be told? Practical Activity followed by Written Activity (14) - Effective creativity? - Practical Activity (15), Unit 6: Feedback - Evaluating explanations - Answers to oral questions - Written tests of knowledge and understanding - Children's responses to practical task - Practical Activity (16) - aAnalysing your own or other people's explanations - General Feedback - research findings, expert views, pupil views - Practical Activity (17), References.
Explaining shows what explanation is and what it aims to do. It explores the various strategies open to teachers and by a combination of activities and discussion points it helps them to build up a repertoire of techniques suitable for various situations and to evaluate the effectiveness of their explanations in the classroom. It covers such issues as the use of an appropriate language register, the place of analogies, building on children's questions and coping strategies for effective explanation when the teacher is unfamiliar with the subject matter.
Explaining shows what explanation is and what it aims to do. It helps teachers to build up a repertoire of techniques and to evaluate the effectiveness of their explanations in the classroom.
Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Aims and Content, Unit 1: What is Explaining? - Practical Activity (1), Main Features - Discussion Activity (2), The Pupil's Perspective summary - Practical Activity (3), Unit 2: Strategies of Explanation - Written Activity (4), Different Approaches - The Broad Strategies - Written Activity followed by Discussion (5)- Practical Activity (6), Unit 3: Analysing Explanations - Quantitative analysis - Qualitative analysis - Practical Activity (7) - Levels of thought - Pupils explaining - Practical Activity followed by Discussion (8) - Using Schedules - Practical Activity followed by Discussion (9), Unit 4: Knowing the Subject Matter - Different kinds of subject matter? Written Activity followed by Practical Activity (10) - Explaining concepts - Written Explanations - Written Activity followed by Practical Activity (12) - Coping Strategies - Written Activity (13), Unit 5: Effective Explaining - Main features of effective explaining - Pupils' perspective - Discover, or be told? Practical Activity followed by Written Activity (14) - Effective creativity? - Practical Activity (15), Unit 6: Feedback - Evaluating explanations - Answers to oral questions - Written tests of knowledge and understanding - Children's responses to practical task - Practical Activity (16) - aAnalysing your own or other people's explanations - General Feedback - research findings, expert views, pupil views - Practical Activity (17), References.
Explaining shows what explanation is and what it aims to do. It explores the various strategies open to teachers and by a combination of activities and discussion points it helps them to build up a repertoire of techniques suitable for various situations and to evaluate the effectiveness of their explanations in the classroom. It covers such issues as the use of an appropriate language register, the place of analogies, building on children's questions and coping strategies for effective explanation when the teacher is unfamiliar with the subject matter.
Explaining shows what explanation is and what it aims to do. It helps teachers to build up a repertoire of techniques and to evaluate the effectiveness of their explanations in the classroom.