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Carole L. Hamilton is a retired English teacher and debate coach who has researched teaching and learning for twenty years. Her focus has been in analogy-making, inductive lessons, and threshold concepts.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I:How Students Learn Best
Chapter 1: We Learn through Analogies
Section II:Why Much of Our Teaching is Ineffective
Chapter 2: How We Should (and Should Not) Teach
Section III: Teaching to the Student’s Natural Learning Style
Chapter 3: Where to Focus: Identify Threshold Concepts
Chapter 4:What to Teach: Choose Topics and Texts that Exemplify Threshold Concepts
Chapter 5:How to Teach: Design Lessons that Compel Students to Confront their Misconceptions
Chapter 6:How to Assess: Design Ways to Gauge Students’ Critical Thinking
Conclusion
Appendix A: How People Learn
Appendix B: Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Appendix C: Student Retention with Schemas and Analogies
Appendix D: Threshold Concepts
Appendix E: Sample Threshold Concepts and Skills
Appendix F: Sample Student Challenges
Appendix G: How to Assess Critical Thinking
Recommended Reading/Viewing
References