Schooling for life reclaiming the essence of learning
If you believe that schools can go beyond test scores and standards to foster students' understanding of subjects, then here's a book that will renew your commitment to meaningful teaching and learning. Using classroom observations and keen insights from research, one of education's foremost thinkers on constructivism explains Why lessons and courses should involve students in answering challenging questions, resolving contradictions, and solving intriguing problems How focusing classroom instruction on "big ideas" develops student understanding as well as essential skills How replacing typical school approaches with a "community of learners" model will lead to higher achievement for more learners Why attempts to simplify schooling tend to subvert the goal of educating students for real life
eBook, English, 2002
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, Va., 2002
1 online resource (168 p.)
9781416601142, 9786610931194, 9781280931192, 9780871208989, 9781416615842, 1416601147, 6610931194, 1280931191, 0871208989, 1416615849
1259098008
""Cover ""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Part I: Learning to Live a Life""; ""Chapter 1: A Life with Standards""; ""Learning to Find and Solve Problems""; ""Common Thinking""; ""Changing Images of Complex Systems""; ""Chapter 2: A Life with Questions""; ""Really Knowing""; ""Conflict Resolution Versus Conflict Suppression""; ""Safe and Sound""; ""Chapter 3: A Life in Search of Meaning""; ""Teaching for Big Ideas""; ""Meaning: Lost and Found""; ""Big Ideas and Details"" ""Part II: Unlearning Lessons Learned in School""""Chapter 4: Dispiriting Lessons and Missing Conversations""; ""Questions of Climate""; ""Lessons Learned""; ""Scripts That Suppress""; ""Chapter 5: Showing Up and Following Directions""; ""Understanding the Instructional Program""; ""Beyond Showing Up and Following Directions""; ""Learning What We Need to Learn""; ""Chapter 6: The True Negatives of False Positives""; ""Focused to a Fault""; ""Students the Way They Are""; ""One of Life�s Experiments""; ""Flexible Facts""; ""Part III: Lessons That Last"" ""Chapter 7: Uncertainties and Imperfections""""Risks, Gains, and Guarantees""; ""“The Big Picture� Again""; ""Teacher Scaffolding""; ""Chapter 8: Back to the Heart of the Matter""; ""Negotiating Curriculum""; ""Curriculum with Embedded Assessment""; ""It Takes a Child""; ""Chapter 9: Beginning with Understanding in Mind""; ""Broken Compasses""; ""Opening Eyes""; ""Finding Common Ground for Learning""; ""Chapter 10: Old Issues, New Images""; ""Tough Questions, Evolving Answers""; ""Structure and Efficiency""; ""Collective Leadership""; ""Dreams and Disobedience""
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