A professional core includes a common language of practice, foundation principles and skills, and related standards. Such a core is present in the medical, engineering, and legal professions. Instructionally, it is not present in the teaching profession. There is no core foundation for critical instruction. Such instruction, long sought but unrealized, leads students to think, read, and write critically for content comprehension. These issues obstruct critical instruction.There is no uniform use of instructional terms.Conventional serialism-based instruction blocks the mind’s nature to think critically. Rote learning is the result.Teaching is based on thinking directed at subject matter. Yet, we practice without a universal foundation in either.Teacher preparation programs have no foundation courses for critical instruction.There are no teacher-educator, teacher, or student standards for critical thinking for comprehension, the basis of critical reading and writing.These issues result in weak instructional preparation and practice and poor student achievement. Fixing Instruction resolves the issues. It provides, for the first time, teacher-educators, teacher-candidates, teachers, and professional developers with an explicit core body of knowledge for critical instruction.

Challenges educators to reevaluate traditional practices; encouraging them to become decision makers, reflective thinkers, and agents for social change while critically deconstructing the process of teaching language arts. (view table of contents)

This book focuses directly on student empowerment through meaningful research. It fills a specific gap in educational literature by making explicit the relationship between teaching method, classroom practice, and the production of knowledge. Drawing on the best of theoretical innovations over the last decade Students as Researchers places them in a living accessible context. With a sound basis in theory, the book is also extremely practical and accessible for students, giving scenarios and examples that can be used to reveal the workings and benefits of research.

Product Description: This step-by-step guide provides educators with the tools they need to help students think more critically and write with more fully developed ideas. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Towards a Critical Multicultural Literacy claims that, in a pluralistic society, education should affirm and encourage the quest for self-examination through social transformation by creating relevant problem-posing activities that allow students to confront through reasoning, the challenges offered by everyday life's diverse reality...read more

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Product Description: This is a pioneering work, timely, scholarly, and grounded in critical-sociological, anthropological, and philosophical traditions. It offers an empathic analysis of pluralist, Afrocentric, and postmodernist advocacies of multicultural education and multiculturalism, but reveals formidable flaws in their conceptions of gender, race, culture, knowledge, learning, and social change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Educators on all levels will benefit from this book that is dedicated to the importance of learning reasoning skills concurrently with subject matter. Habits of the Mind, written by a thirty-year veteran in the field of education, is ultimately concerned with the total strengthening of education in America through the teaching of logical and critical thinking...read more

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