Berliner’s Topics
The general failure to take the abstract and partial understandings of educational psychology and make them re-comprehensible to practical people is an unfortunate, unpleasant, and, I believe, a continuing part of our history .
Bruner …identified storytelling as one of two fundamentally different modes of human thought, standing in contrast to the analytic, linear way of thinking prevalent in logic, mathematics, and the sciences. …One has formal means to verify truth, the other establishes only verisimilitude; one seeks explications that are context fee and universal, and the other seeks explications that are context sensitive and particular.
Stories are powerful research tools. They provide us with a picture of real people in real situations, struggling with real problems. They banish the indifference often generated by samples, treatments, and faceless subjects. They invite us to speculate on what might have been changed and with what effect. And, of course, they remind us of our persistent fallibility
1. time on task – Barak Rosenshine, Charles Fischer, David Berliner
2. multiple intelligences – Howard Gardner
3. zone of proximal development – Lev Vygotsky
4. accommodation and assimilation – Jean Piaget
5. authentic assessment
6. Lewin’s interactive theory – Kurt Lewin
7. expectancy x value motivational theory – Jacquelynne Eccles and Allan Wigfield
8. Carroll’s model of learning: the opportunity to learn – John Carroll
9. mastery learning – Madelyn Hunter, Benjamin Bloom
10. aptitude treatment interactions – Richard Snow
11. testing effects
12. retention
13. expectations states theory – Rosenthal, Berger
14. Weikart’s High-Scope Program early childhood education effects – David Weikart
15. effective instruction – Ron Edmonds
16. class size – Gene Glass
17. cooperative learning – David and Roger Johnson, Robert Slavin, Elizabeth Cohen, Rachel Lotan, Spencer Kagan
18. direct instruction – Barak Rosenshine
19. cross-age tutoring –
20. reciprocal teaching – Ann Marie Palascar
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21. universal design principles
22. Clark’s research on African-American self-esteem – Mamie Clark, Kenneth Clark
23. Circles of Courage – Larry Brendtro
24. differentiated instruction – Carol Tomlinson, Linda Heacox
25. self-efficacy and social skills teaching – Albert Bandura
26. democratic models of classroom discipline – Rudolf Dreikurs, Jane Nelsen
27. control theory – Wm. Glasser
28. teaching wide ranges of ability
multiage teaching
project based learning
differentiated instruction
“active learning”
expeditionary learning
place based education