Schooling for life : reclaiming the essence of learning

Schooling for life : reclaiming the essence of learning / Jacqueline Grennon Brooks.

Too many students experience school as a place to put in time ... and view their lives within school walls as distinctly different from their lives at home and in their community. Too many educators seem to share that point of view and focus more on lists of standards than the students they are supp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooks, Jacqueline Grennon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, ©2002.
Subjects:
Thought and thinking > Study and teaching > United States.
Constructivism (Education) > United States.
Active learning > United States.
EDUCATION > Educational Psychology.
Active learning
Constructivism (Education)
Thought and thinking > Study and teaching
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Learning to live a life. A life with standards. Learning to find and solve problems. Common thinking. Changing images of complex systems. A life with questions. Really knowing. Conflict resolution versus conflict suppression. Safe and sound. A life in search of meaning. Teaching for big ideas. Meaning, lost and found. Big ideas and details
  • Unlearning lessons learned in school. Dispiriting lessons and missed conversations. Questions of climate. Lessons learned. Scripts that suppress. Showing up and following directions. Understanding the instructional program. Beyond showing up and following directions. Learning what we need to learn. The true negatives of false positives. Focused to a fault. Students the way they are. One of life's experiments. Flexible facts
  • Lessons that last. Uncertainties and imperfections. Risks, gains, and guarantees. "The big picture," again. Teacher scaffolding. Back to the heart of the matter. Negotiating curriculum. Curriculum with embedded assessment. It takes a child. Beginning with understanding in mind. Broken compasses. Opening eyes. Finding common ground for learning. Old issues, new images. Tough questions, evolving answers. Structure and efficiency. Collective leadership. Dreams and disobedience.

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