Full Description
Would you want to be a student in your own classroom? In Passionate Learners: How to Engage and Empower Your Students, author Pernille Ripp challenges both novice and seasoned teachers to create a positive, interactive learning environment where students drive their own academic achievement. You'll discover how to make fundamental changes to your classroom so learning becomes an exciting challenge rather than a frustrating ordeal. Based on the author's personal experience of transforming her approach to teaching, this book outlines how to:
• Build a working relationship with your students based on mutual trust, respect, and appreciation.
• Be attentive to your students' needs and share ownership of the classroom with them.
• Break out of the vicious cycle of punishment and reward to control student behaviour.
• Use innovative and creative lesson plans to get your students to become more engaged and intellectually-invested learners, while still meeting your state standards.
• Limit homework and abandon traditional grading so that your students can make the most of their learning experiences without unnecessary stress.
• And much more!
New to the second edition, you'll find practical tools, such as teacher and student reflection sheets, parent questionnaires, and parent conference tools--available in the book and as eResources on our website (http://www.routledge.com/9781138916920)—to help you build your own classroom of passionate learners.
Contents
eResources
Foreword
About The Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Learning to Break the Rules
1. Now Wait Just a Minute, Mr. Wong
2. Would You Like Being a Student in Your Own Classroom?
3. So You Got the Job. Now What?
4. It's Not How Your Classroom Looks, It's How it Feels
5. The First Day of School: Who's In Charge?
6. Where I Give the Classroom Back to My Students
7. Letting Go of the Punish, Behave, Reward Cycle
8. Common or Not - The Standards Are Always There
9. Homework, Routines, and a Whole Lot of Paper
10. How Grading Destroys Curiosity
11. When Change Happens to Good Teachers
Appendix
