Full Description
Taking risks is how humans learn. It is how humans have always learned. A person sees a problem, takes in the available information, and tries a solution. It is in that process - whether the goal is understanding a Shakespeare play, figuring out an algorithm, or writing a theory of history - that engaged learners make breakthroughs, be those breakthroughs individual, group, or societal.
In this book, three experienced practitioners describe how to re-imagine teaching spaces - conventional schools - as learning spaces, spaces where risk is encouraged, celebrated, and actually taught in every area of endeavor: from how, where, or if to sit, to how to find the right pathway to learning. In bringing the stories of a central office Innovation director together with an elementary teacher and administrator and a veteran secondary teacher leader, Education Reimagined: A Space for Risk demonstrates how fundamental change is possible in any school
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: A Risk Worth Taking
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Creating a Learning Space
Chapter 4: Teacher Autonomy
Chapter 5: Growth Mindset
Chapter 6: Creating a Vision
Chapter 7: Sharing a Vision so that is Becomes a Shared Vision
Chapter 8: Changing a Learning Space
Chapter 9: Financial Awareness
Chapter 10: Administrator Autonomy
Chapter 11: Decision Making: Choice and Comfort
Chapter 12: The Learning Space and Student Autonomy in the Classroom
Chapter 13: Different Vision of Risk: Differentiation and Individualism in the Classroom
Chapter 14: Elementary School Learning Spaces
Chapter 15: Middle School Learning Spaces
Chapter 16: High School Learning Spaces
About the Authors
