Full Description
How do students truly learn? What is the best way to teach? Where do you go for help? Every day, you face the challenge of engaging students in learning, often to disappointing results. This book provides a myriad of voices at your side supporting you with sound educational philosophy and practical ideas for teaching your students. Teaching the Way Students Learn: Practical Applications for Today's Classrooms helps you explore the social constructivist paradigm through instructional strategies and true life "teaching memoirs." Constructivism is more than an "ism," it explains how students learn, and this book provides both philosophy and practicality to bring constructivist teaching to life in the classroom. Teaching and learning using a social constructivist lens can transform the classroom, helping you become change agents for your students and leaders for your schools.
Contents
PrologueChapter 1 The Constructivist Paradigm: Teaching the Way Students LearnJill E. ColeTeaching Memoir Constructivist Teaching 101D. Colette WheatleyChapter 2 The 20% Solution: An Early Literacy Framework for Struggling ReadersMarcia P. LawtonTeaching Memoir KangaroosArielle SuggsChapter 3 Students Won't Read Textbooks? Try 3-Point Book ClubJamie Whitman-SmitheTeaching Memoir The 3x4x5 TriangleThomas B. ColeChapter 4 Nature Journaling Across the CurriculumCharmaine M. HerreraTeaching Memoir There are No Dumb Questions!Robin D. SmithChapter 5 Teaching Social Studies: What is the Right Answer? Kathleen M. DoyleTeaching Memoir SamJill E. ColeChapter 6 Motivating Students to Read Using Constructivist StrategiesJill E. ColeTeaching Memoir The First DayAnonymousChapter 7 Developing Curriculum for the Constructivist ClassroomPatti L. SandyTeaching Memoir The Leader or the Boss?Heidi L. GreeneChapter 8 Teaching Study: A New Definition of Professional DevelopmentLaura M. LeachEpilogue About the Contributors
