Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- About the Author -- 1 Practices 1 -- Advance Organizer 2 --
-- Applied Learning 2 -- Art Galleries 3 -- Art Therapy 3 -- Assertive Discipline 3 -- Authentic Assessment 4 -- Behavior Management Centers 5 -- Behavioral Objectives 6 -- Benchmarks 6 -- Bibliotherapy 7
-- Block Scheduling 7 -- Brainstorming 8 -- Career Days 8 -- Classwide Peer Tutoring 9 -- Collaborative Learning 10 -- Communities in Schools 1 -- Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) 11 -- Concept Mapping 11 -- Conflict Resolution 12
Content Mastery 12 -- Cooperative Learning 13 -- Core Knowledge 13 -- Detention 14 -- Direct Instruction 15
-- Discovery Learning 15 -- Distance Learning 16 -- Education Portals 17 -- Electronic Field Trips 17 -- Experiential Learning 18 -- Guided Imagery 18 -- Habit Formation 18 -- Homework Labs 19 -- Indirect Teaching 19 -- Inquiry Learning 19 -- Interdisciplinary Unit 20 -- Learning Centers 21 -- Lecture 21 -- Literacy Skills 21 -- Literature Circles 22 -- Looping 22 -- Mentoring 23 -- Mind Mapping 24 -- Multisensory Instruction 24 -- Peer Mediation 25 -- Phonics 26 -- Portfolios 26 -- Premack -Principle 27 -- Rehearsal 27 -- Role-Play 28 -- Rote Memorization 28 -- Rubrics 29 -- Scaffolding 29 -- Simulation 31 -- Socratic Method 31 -- Sq4r 32 -- Team Teaching 32 -- Time Capsule 33 -- Touch Math 33 -- Vertical Teams 35 -- Virtual Reality 35
-- Zone of Proximal Development 36 -- 2 Programs 37 -- Accelerated Reader 38 -- Alternative Education 41 -- Balanced Literacy 43 -- Character Education 44 -- Charter Schools 46 -- Chicago Math 48 -- Creative Education Institute (CEI) Reading Program 50 -- Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) 52 -- Edison Project/Edison Schools 54 -- Effective Schools 56 -- Emergent Literacy 58 -- Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) 61 -- Gifted and Talented 63 -- Head Start 65 -- Health --Occupations Students of America (HOSA) 67Jumpstart 68 -- Modern Red Schoolhouse (MRSh) 70 -- National School Lunch Program (NSLP) 72 -- Paideia Schools 74 -- Reading Recovery 75 -- Success For All (SFA) 78 -- Trailblazers 80 -- 3 Policies 81 -- Honor Roll 82 -- Immersion 82 -- Inclusion 83 -- Individualized Education Plan 84 -- Intelligence Testing 85 -- No Pass/No Play 86 -- Resource Room 87 -- Sexual Harassment 87 -- Standardized Testing 89 -- Summer School 91 -- Teacher Accountability 92 -- Zero Tolerance 93 -- 4 Philosophies, Theories, and Movements 95 -- Alternative Assessment 96 -- Brain-Based Learning 97 -- Conditions of Learning 98 -- Internet 99 -- Learning Styles 101 -- Magnet Schools 102 -- Mainstreaming 103 -- Mastery Teaching 103 -- Montessori Method 104 -- Motivation Theory 105 -- Multicultural Education 106 -- Multiple Intelligences 107 -- Outcome-Based Education 108 -- Psychological Schools of Thought 109 -- School Vouchers 114 -- Self-Regulation 115 -- Situated Learning 116 -- Social Learning 117 -- Whole Language 118 -- Epilogue 120 -- References 122 -- Index 135.