Victor P. Maiorana Boeken

Focusing on the essential knowledge for critical instruction, this book serves as a resource for a wide range of educational professionals, including teacher-educators and administrators. It emphasizes the importance of mastering the language and standards of teaching, paralleling the preparation required in fields like medicine and law. By outlining the necessary practices for effective teaching, it aims to elevate the profession and enhance instructional quality in educational settings.

Focusing on the need for a foundational approach to critical instruction, this book addresses the challenges educators face in fostering critical thinking, reading, and writing skills among students. It highlights the gap in instructional preparation that contributes to inadequate student achievement. By proposing a core body of knowledge for critical instruction, the author aims to equip teachers with the tools necessary to enhance educational practices and ultimately improve student outcomes.

This book provides the profession with across-discipline illustrations of classroom assignments that utilize and develop the mind's innate but informal gift to think critically. Faculty for the first time, can lead all students to think, read, listen, write, speak, and observe critically while comprehending new and revisited subject matter.