Principles of Dynamic Pedagogy: An Integrative Model of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for Prospective and In-service Teachers

Principles of Dynamic Pedagogy reinvigorates teachers’ potential to cultivate meaningful growth in their students by leveraging a more reciprocal, interdependent relationship between curriculum, instruction, assessment, and learning. The latest findings from cognitive science, educational psychology and measurement, clinical practice, and socio-cultural studies offer today’s educators a unique opportunity to accommodate the strengths and challenges of diverse learners. How does this research synthesize into an iterative pedagogical process that fosters engaged, responsive students and facilitates their achievement of learning goals and objectives?

Principles of Dynamic Pedagogy introduces students, faculty, and scholars of teacher education to the metacognitive competencies needed to ensure that students acquire, revisit, and explicitly comprehend their emerging knowledge and skills throughout the lessons of a curriculum unit. Driven by the conceptual and empirical foundations of the Dynamic Pedagogy model, this book will support current and future educators in consistently guiding their students to recognize, apply, and improve feedback on using metacognitive and cognitive processes for learning. Regardless of domain, teachers will be better prepared to manage their classrooms with a coherent approach to decision-making, adjustments to practice, monitoring and feedback, assessment design, and reflection.

Eleanor Armour-Thomas is Professor Emerita, Teacher Educator in Educational Psychology, and former Chairperson in the Department of Secondary Education at Queens College, City University of New York, USA.

Edmund W. Gordon is John M. Musser Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University, USA, as well as Richard March Hoe Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education and Founding Director of the Institute of Urban and Minority Education (IUME) at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.