Short description
Learner-centered classroom practices and assessments focus on learning partnerships between teachers and students. This guide to the learner-centered classroom offers teachers a complement of strategies for instruction and assessment. It includes interactive training exercises for teachers, self-assessments, reflection tools, and more.
Long description
Learner-centered classroom practices and assessments focus on learning partnerships between teachers and students. Teachers are the role models for continuous learning, and they take on leadership roles within the overall educational system, bringing together students, peer teachers, school staff, parents, and community members to support students in the lifelong process of learning, growth, development, and achievement. All instructional methods and assessment tools within the learner-centered model are based on research from educational psychology, with core principles addressing cognitive and metacognitive factors; motivational and affective factors; developmental and social factors; and individual difference factors affecting each learner. This lively new guide to the learner-centered classroom offers teachers a full complement of strategies for instruction and assessment. Included within the volume are interactive training exercises for teachers, self-assessments, reflection tools, a generous collection of illustrations, glossary, research resources, index, and more.
Review
This book offers practical suggestions for how to create a learner-centered environment, which I believe teachers want to do--they just need to know how! -- Judi Elman, English Teacher I loved the connections that were made between the suggested practices to improve teaching and real life uses of those practices! -- Brigitte Tennis, Head Teacher This is one of the most well-written books on educational theory that I have read, because it goes to the heart of teaching--the students. -- Betty Brandenburg Yundt, Fifth Grade Teacher Well-organized, it practices what it preaches. The authors used varied techniques to build the readers' understanding of learner-centered concepts, techniques, and advocacy. The evidence for learner-based principles and techniques provides credibility to the concepts. -- Ellen Carlton Herbert, Teacher 20060508
Table of contents
- What We Know About Learning
- What the Research Tells Us About Learner-Centered Classrooms
- What Teachers and Students Tell Us About Learner-Centered Practices
- The Learner-Centered Principles: One By One
- Learner-Centered Practices
- Effective Learner-Centered Practices
- What Tools Do I Need To Become Learner-Centered?