Schooling for Life: Reclaiming the Essence of Learning
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Description
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.
Author: Brooks, Jacqueline Grennon
Topic: Education / Teaching
Media: Book
ISBN: 871206587
Language: English
Pages: 170
Additional information
Weight | 0.52 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8.52 × 6.58 × 0.34 in |
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