Guided Instruction: How to Develop Confident and Successful Learners - Softcover

Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416610685 ISBN 13: 9781416610687

Publisher: ASCD, 2010

Synopsis

Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey say that helping students develop immediate and lifelong learning skills is best achieved through guided instruction, which they define as saying or doing the just-right thing to get the learner to do "cognitive work" in other words, gradually and successfully transferring knowledge and the responsibility for learning to students through scaffolds for learning. In this helpful and informative book, they explain how guided instruction fits your classroom and works for your students.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

You know that repeating the same words and the same instructions or simply announcing the answers to questions doesn't help students learn. How do you get past the predictable and really teach your kids how to learn?

Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey say that helping students develop immediate and lifelong learning skills is best achieved through guided instruction, which they define as "saying or doing the just-right thing to get the learner to do cognitive work" in other words, gradually and successfully transferring knowledge and the responsibility for learning to students through scaffolds for learning. In this helpful and informative book, they explain how guided instruction fits your classroom and works for your students.

Their four-part system for implementation consists of these elements:

* Questioning to check for understanding.

* Prompting to facilitate students' thinking processes and processing.

* Cueing to shift students' attention to focus on specific information, errors, or partial understandings.

* Explaining and modeling when students do not have sufficient knowledge to complete tasks on their own.

Each element is thoroughly explained and illustrated with numerous examples drawn from the authors' extensive experience in the classroom and their observations of hundreds of expert teachers, as well as a broad sampling of relevant research. Aimed at teachers at all grade levels, across the curriculum, Guided Instruction will help you provide timely and meaningful scaffolds that boost students to higher levels of understanding and accomplishment.

About the Author:

Nancy Frey, Ph.D., a Professor at San Diego State University received the 2008 Early Career Achievement Award from the National Reading Conference. Dr. Frey has published in The Reading Teacher, English Journal, Remedial and Special Education, and Educational Leadership. She has co-authored more than fifty books on English Learners (Language Learners in the English Classroom), assessment (Checking for Understanding), writing (Scaffolded Writing Instruction), literacy (Reading for Information in Elementary School) and vocabulary (Learning Words Inside and Out). Dr. Frey teaches a variety of courses on reading instruction and literacy in content areas, classroom management, and supporting students with diverse learning needs. She also was a third grade classroom teacher.

About this edition

• Publisher: ASCD
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1416610685
• ISBN 13: 9781416610687
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 139