Preparation for Critical Instruction

How to Explain Subject Matter While Teaching All Learners to Think, Read, and Write Critically

By (author) Victor P. Maiorana

Publication date:

24 June 2016

Length of book:

178 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475825404

Preparation for Critical Instruction! is written for teacher-educators, teacher-candidates, school and college faculty, professional developers, principals, superintendents, and education deans. It provides an operational core body of knowledge for critical instruction. As with doctors, engineers, and lawyers, ownership of the language, standards, preparation, and practice is now a reality for the teaching profession.

This book takes the mind’s innate and informal ability to think critically and transforms and develops it for use in an explicit, formal, and critical manner for engaging subject matter.

For use in teacher preparation and professional development programs, you will learn to

Use critical reasoning strategies to think, read, write, understand, comprehend, and explain new and revisited subject matter critically.

Design mind grammar-based classroom assignments that explain subject matter critically while concurrently developing critical thinking, reading, and writing abilities in all students.

This book provides the instructional basis to improve significantly the achievement of all students at all levels. Better placed to meet the school, college, workplace, and citizen needs of life in the digital 21^st century, professional practice will be substantially more tangible, respected, and universally prized.

Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I - FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
Chapter 1 - The Language of Instruction
Chapter 2 - The Nature of Subject Matter and Mind Grammar
Chapter 3 - Thinking: The First Language Art
PART II - CRITICAL LEARNING
Chapter 4 - Introduction to Critical Learning
Chapter 5 - Critical Understanding With Mind Grammar One
Chapter 6 - Critical Comprehension with Mind Grammar Two
Chapter 7 - Read for Critical Comprehension
Chapter 8 - Write for Critical Explanation
PART III - CRITICAL INSTRUCTION
Chapter 9 - Case Study: Critical Learning Leads to Critical Instruction
Chapter 10 - Introduction to Critical Instruction
Glossary
Index

Preparation for Critical Instruction is thought provoking and particularly useful for instructors at secondary and post-secondary levels who wish to scrutinize and refresh their work. It has become increasingly important to include critical instruction in the classroom and devise ways to assess critical thinking among students, so any assistance from experts is appreciated. Maiorana’s perspectives should be considered, and reading his work may well be a step in the right direction.