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Table Of Contents
Ensuring Student Success:
A Handbook of Evidence-Based Strategies
By Myles I. Friedman
A 259-page 7" X 10" hardcover. ISBN 0-9666588-1-7
I. Key Issues
1. Education' s Crucial Challenge
• Student Deficiency
• Education and the American Way
2. Meeting The Challenge
• What Can Be Done?
• What Kind of Instruction is Needed Most?
• Basing Education Decisions on Evidence
II. Prescriptions
3. Implementing Corrective Tutoring
4. Making instruction Effective
• Defining Instructional Expectations
• Taking Student Readiness into Account
• Preparing Effective Instruction Evaluation
• Providing Corrective Instruction
• Providing Contiguity
• Utilizing Repetition Effectively
• Clarifying Communication
• Providing Subject Matter Unifiers
• Keeping Students on Task
• Providing Ample Teaching Time
• Providing Ample Learning Time
• Utilizing Reminders
• Providing Transfer of Learning Instruction
• Providing Decision-Making Instruction
• Facilitating Teamwork
5. Promising and Generic Instruction Strategies
• Enlisting the Control Motive
• Providing Prediction and Problem Solving Instruction
• Learning for Mastery
• Direct Instruction
• Success for All
• Accelerated School Programs
• The CABAS Program
• New Mexico Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (CETP)
• Discovery
• Mathematics and Science Teacher Education Program (MASTEP)
6. Empowering Students to Learn on Their Own
7. Preventing Impediments to Learning
• Student/Teacher Ratio
• Controlling Classroom Disruption
• Reducing School Violence and Crime
• Reinforcement
• Ability Grouping Students
• Whole Language Instruction
• Teacher Characteristics
8. Effective Preschool Instruction
• Effective Preschool Instructional Strategies
• Summaries of Exemplary Preschool Research on Instructional Strategies
9. Teaching Students to Innovate
Appendix: Statistical Data Supporting Conclusions of Preschool Research
Index of Researchers
Subject Index
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