Series:

Madeline Hunter Collection

11 total works

Cover of Mastering Coaching and Supervision
This practical volume offers administrators and teacher leaders advice on how to maximize the benefit of staff development programmes. The authors address three challenges: How and what trainers should observe in a classroom; how they should analyze these observations; and how they can translate observations into feedback which will encourage teachers to enhance their professional effectiveness.

Cover of Discipline That Develops Self-Discipline
This 'how-to' book for teachers and administrators at all grades presents many proven techniques for reducing the time and effort spent on trying the achieve the important goal of student self-discipline.

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Teach More -- Faster!

by Madeline Hunter

Published 1 December 1967
The elements which influence a student's rate and degree of learning are outlined in this volume. Madeline Hunter demonstrates a diversity of practical teaching techniques, including how to design practice so that it does `make perfect' and how to avoid the `black holes' in any sequence of learning.

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Teach for Transfer

by Madeline Hunter

Published 1 March 1971
This study of 'transfer' addresses the perplexing question: How can students possess knowledge and skills in one set of circumstances and yet not be able to apply those same skills to other situations that require them? Madeline Hunter introduces four factors designed to aid the process of transfer and promote creativity and problem-solving techniques among students: similarity; association; degree of original learning; and critical attributes.

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Improved Instruction

by Madeline Hunter

Published 30 November 1976
This is a clear, useful guide for teachers, administrators and student teachers in which Madeline Hunter offers ten step-by-step plans for staff development meetings. Each plan focuses on: one area of meeting; topics for staff discussion; long-range objectives; and follow-up activities.

Cover of Motivation Theory for Teachers
Madeline Hunter introduces six factors which can influence a student's motivation to learn: concern, feeling tone, success, interest, knowledge of results and extrinsic-intrinsic motivation. She then illustrates how to use productively these factors in the classroom.

Cover of Retention Theory for Teachers
In this book, Madeline Hunter presents five factors to help students remember what they have learned: meaning; feeling tone; degree of original learning; practice schedule; and transfer.

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Mastery Teaching

by Madeline Hunter

Published 1 October 1982
Madeline Hunter's bestselling book details the essentials of effective instruction for elementary, secondary and university students. Techniques and examples are incorporated in full detail.

Cover of The Madeline Hunter Collection

Madeline Hunter is one the most respected and widely known advocates of professional development for teachers. Her practical and skillfully presented books, now republished for a new generation by Corwin Press, detail the essentials of effective teaching. Issues addressed include: what influences a student's motivation to learn and rate of learning, how students remember what they have learned, and how to achieve student discipline and student self-discipline. Books within the collection include:

  • Aide-ing in Education
  • Discipline That Develops Self-Discipline
  • Improved Instruction
  • Improving Your Child's Behavior
  • Mastering Coaching and Supervision
  • Mastery Teaching: Increasing Instructional Effectiveness in Elementary and Secondary Schools, Colleges, and Universities
  • Motivation Theory for Teachers
  • Retention Theory for Teachers
  • Teach for Transfer
  • Teach More-Faster!

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Aide-ing in Education

by Madeline Hunter and Sally Breit

Published 30 November 1976
This effective guide has been used to train not only aides and volunteers but also teachers and administrators throughout the world. Madeline Hunter describes a number of staff meeting plans for using the principles of learning in daily classroom planning and teaching.

Cover of Improving Your Child's Behavior
An essential guide for parents and parent education groups, the authors of this volume use straightforward writing and an appealing format to help parents with the discipline of children. The book will help parents develop their activities to increase their child's productive behaviour - improved behaviour which then transfers to the classroom.