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
Prologue
Chapter 1 The Constructivist Paradigm: Teaching the Way Students Learn
Jill E. Cole
Teaching Memoir Constructivist Teaching 101
D. Colette Wheatley
Chapter 2 The 20% Solution: An Early Literacy Framework for Struggling Readers
Marcia P. Lawton
Teaching Memoir Kangaroos
Arielle Suggs
Chapter 3 Students Won't Read Textbooks? Try 3-Point Book Club
Jamie Whitman-Smithe
Teaching Memoir The 3x4x5 Triangle
Thomas B. Cole
Chapter 4 Nature Journaling Across the Curriculum
Charmaine M. Herrera
Teaching Memoir There are No Dumb Questions!
Robin D. Smith
Chapter 5 Teaching Social Studies: What is the Right Answer?
Kathleen M. Doyle
Teaching Memoir Sam
Jill E. Cole
Chapter 6 Motivating Students to Read Using Constructivist Strategies
Jill E. Cole
Teaching Memoir The First Day
Anonymous
Chapter 7 Developing Curriculum for the Constructivist Classroom
Patti L. Sandy
Teaching Memoir The Leader or the Boss?
Heidi L. Greene
Chapter 8 Teaching Study: A New Definition of Professional Development
Laura M. Leach
Epilogue
About the Contributors
