interaction analysis in education

"[To enable teachers] to help their students expand their knowledge and skills ... Eileen Depka shares instructional practices ... Through example situations, templates, and suggested strategies, Depka illustrates how question design, specifically with help from Webb's Depth of Knowledge and Bloom's taxonomy, promotes students' higher-order thinking skills and deepens their engagement"--Provided by publisher.

Explains how to use the skillstreaming approach to teach prosocial skills to elementary students, covering effective arrangements, teaching procedures, refining skill use, teaching for skill generalization, managing problems, and other related topics and including skill outlines and homework reports.

Presents fifty classroom strategies designed to increase student cooperation, participation, and achievement in all grade levels and subjects.

Middle-level students have important emotional, social, intellectual, and physical needs that set them apart from elementary or high school students. Middle-level educators are often looking for ways to meet these needs while addressing the academic requirements. The "middle school concept" places a premium on the development of the affective needs as well as the intellectual needs of early adolescents.

Provides information on techniques to use in the science classroom to better encourage student's understanding of key concepts, and includes seventy-five "Science Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques," which covers focused learning, interest scales, synectics, and others.