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The Teaching Craft

Tools for Teaching

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The Teaching Craft

Tools for Teaching

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This book delivers practical, classroom-ready tools that strengthen instruction and directly boost student engagement and achievement. It shows how to teach concepts, facts, rules, and routines clearly and systematically-from cause-and-effect relationships to decoding, math problem solving, scientific processes, and productive learning behaviors such as attention and persistence.
You'll find step-by-step methods for organizing curriculum into coherent, connected units; designing lessons that move students from new learning to generalization, fluency, integration, and long-term retention; and establishing strong “learning readiness” at the start of every lesson. The book provides concrete scaffolds-Model–Lead–Test/check sequences, guided notes, worked examples, and structured practice-and demonstrates how to combine explicit instruction with inquiry in clear, 5-part lesson designs that make rigorous content accessible to all learners.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Knowledge: What is It? What Kinds are There? How do We Construct It?
Chapter 2. Scaffolding Content Knowledge Curricula
Chapter 3. Scaffolding Tool Skill Curricula
Chapter 4. Scaffolding Teacher-Student Communication (Instruction) With Cues and Reinforcement
Chapter 5. Scaffolding Teacher-Student Communication with the Model-Lead-Test/check-Verification Format
Chapter 6. Scaffolding Teacher-Student Communication with the Socratic Questioning Format
Chapter 7. Scaffolding Teacher-Student Communication (Instruction) With Add-ons
Chapter 8. Scaffolding Teacher-Student Communication (Instruction) by Handling Errors
Chapter 9. Learning Readiness Skills
Chapter 10. Teaching Classes, Concepts, and Their Names. Introduction
Chapter 11. Teaching Classes, Concepts, and Their Names Five Ways
Chapter 12. Teaching Fact Knowledge
Chapter 13. Teaching Rule Relationships, or How “Things” are Connected
Chapter 14. Teaching Routines
Chapter 15. The 5-Part Lesson
Chapter 16. Five-Part Lesson on Sharks
Chapter 17. Five-Part Lesson on Decoding Using a Sequence of Four Formats

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Oct 29 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 240
ISBN 9781475872675
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 22 B/W Images
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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