Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Interactive Teaching: The What, the Why, and the How -- Class Discussions and Class Discussions -- Interactive Teaching - It's Not for Every Teacher -- Choosing Interactive Teaching -- References -- Chapter 2: The Shape of Teaching and Learning in the Interactive Classroom -- What's the Big Idea? -- Searching for the Meaning of Big Ideas -- Big Ideas Lead to the Generation of a Curriculum Task or Investigation -- Small Group Work -- Follow-up Studies -- How Long, Oh, How Long? -- References -- Chapter 3: Preparing for Interactive Teaching -- Tolerating Dissonance -- Maintaining and Relinquishing Control -- Knowing your Own Style -- Establishing the Contract -- References -- Chapter 4: Scenes from Interactive Classrooms -- The Train -- Germs Make Me Sick! -- The Hockey Card -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Basic Interactive Skills: Listening, Attending, Apprehending, Making Meaning -- Now the Fun Begins -- A Personal Training Program for Improving One's Listening and Attending Skills -- Practice Tasks in Listening, Attending, Paraphrasing, and Being Non-Judgmental -- Postgame Reflections on Simulations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Basic Interactive Skills: Responding, Saying Back, Paraphrasing, Interpreting -- Waiting for Students To Express their Ideas -- Being Non-Judgmental in Accepting Students' Responses: Appreciating Students' Ideas -- Conditions that Limit and Actually Crush Student Thinking -- Becoming Aware of Differences in Responding -- Self-assessment -- References -- Chapter 7: Basic Interactive Skills: Questioning -- Unproductive Questions -- Less-than-Productive Questions -- Productive Questions -- Guidelines for Productive Questions -- Conclusion -- Note -- References