Full Description
Similar to the previous three volumes, Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2010), Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Cohan & Honigsfeld, 2011), and, Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2012), the purpose of this book is to offer a carefully selected collection of documented best practices for empowering students.
The contributing authors represent diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences, yet their chapters recognize similarities among students so that the innovations can be transferred to other contexts. Each chapter represents practical, research-based success stories as well as authentic accomplishments which motivate and engage all students.
The 20 chapters in this volume are organized into four sections: (a) making personal connections and engaging students in reflection; (b) engagement with literacy and language; (c) music, movement, arts, drama and other creative engagements; and (d) school culture, community, and student success. The compelling chapters shared in this volume—focused on innovation and transformation—will help thrust education and teacher action (rather than reaction) in a positive trajectory of change.
Contents
Foreword
Kenneth C. Williams
Preface
Audrey Cohan and Andrea Honigsfeld
Acknowledgments
Section I: Making Personal Connections and Engaging Students in Reflection
1.Using Urban Youth Culture to Activate the Racial Literacy of Black and Latino Male High School Students
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
2.Embracing Project-Based Learning with Emerging Technologies in the Multiage Classroom
Shannon T. Page, Andrew P. Charland, April A. Scott, and Hiller A. Spires
3.Nurturing Curiosity by Teachers' Purposeful Self-Evaluation and Reflective Practice
Angela K. Salmon and Thomas G. Reio, Jr.
4.Partnerships for the Common Good: Democratic Citizenship Through Writing, New Media, and the Arts
Susan N. Wood, Nancye E. McCrary, Kate Larken, and Sioux Finney
Section II: Student Engagement with Literacy
5.Empowering English Language Learners: Reluctant Readers Learn to Believe in Themselves
Audrey Figueroa Murphy and Robin E. Finnan-Jones
6.Teacherless Discussion: Engaging Middle School Students Through Peer-to-Peer Talk
Patricia M. Breslin and Rebecca Ambrose
7.Staying Afloat in Ninth-Grade English: Letting Students Trim the Sails
Beverly S. Faircloth and Samuel D. Miller
8.The Power of Technology to Advance Literacy, Learning, and Agency
Evelyn M. Connolly
9.It's All About Me; I Mean You; I Mean Me: Strategies for Engaging Students in the Language Arts Classroom
Meg Goldner Rabinowitz
10.Everything Old is New Again: 21st Century College Students as Engaged Readers
Heather Rogers Haverback
Section III: Music, Movement, Arts, Drama, and Other Creative Engagements
11.Increasing Student Engagement Through the Implementation of Interactive Teaching Strategies
Mara Sapon-Shevin
12.Competition and Considerations: The Use of Active Gaming in Physical Education Class
Eve Bernstein, Anne Gibbone, and Ulana Lysniak
13.Low SES Primary School Students Engaging in an Afterschool Robotics Program
Vinesh Chandra, Annette Woods, and Amanda Levido
14.Stepping into Pictures and Music Scores: Imaginative Dramatic Play
Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Mary T. Toepfer
15.Classrooms or Rock Stages? Learning Music Through Collaboration
Rut Martínez-Borda, Pilar Lacasa, María Ruth García-Pernía, and Sara Cortés-Gómez
Section IV: Connecting School Culture, Community, and Student Success
16.Growing Up Chinese American
Judy W. Yu
17.Raising Engagement and Enhancing Learning: School Community Partnerships that Work for Students at-Promise
David Zyngier
18.Montessori High Schools: Where Long-Standing Tradition Meets the Cutting Edge
Wendy J. LaRue and Peter Hoffman-Kipp
19.Ma te Mahi e Ako Ai (Learning by Doing in New Zealand Higher Education): The Influence of Service-Learning on Student Engagement
Lane Graves Perry, Billy O'Steen, and Peter Cammock
20."I teach like you are all gifted": Leading Lowest Track Students to Become Confident Mathematics Learners
Della R. Leavitt and Erin N. Washington
Afterword
Laura J. Shea Doolan
Contributors
