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Starting with Their Strengths: Using the Project Approach in Early Childhood Special Education. Early Childhood Education Series
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Lickey, Deborah C.; Powers, Denise J. – Teachers College Press, 2011
This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to using the project approach when teaching young children with special needs. While focusing on children's individual strengths, which include their interests, intelligences, and unique styles of learning, this resource demonstrates teaching strategies that address multiple areas of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Performance Based Assessment, Childhood Interests, Young Children
ENGAGING Teens in Their Own Learning: 8 Keys to Student Success
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Vermette, Paul J. – Eye on Education, 2009
This book offers valuable teaching strategies to engage a diverse group of teens in thinking, understanding, and learning activities. It uses classroom examples to illustrate the eight "ENGAGING" factors: (1) Entice Effort and Build Community; (2) Negotiate Meaning; (3) Group Collaboratively; (4) Active Learning and Authentic Assessment; (5)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Performance Based Assessment, Active Learning, Learner Engagement
Problem-Based Learning in K-8 Classrooms: A Teacher's Guide to Implementation.
Lambros, Ann – 2002
This book illustrates how problem-based learning (PBL) can enliven curriculum and lesson planning by encouraging students to play a more central role in their own learning process. It provides a framework for efficiently and effectively teaching problem-solving skills, tapping children's interests and previous knowledge, and making the curriculum…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning
Best Practices for the Learner-Centered Classroom: A Collection of Articles.
Fogarty, Robin – 1995
This collection of articles on the learner-centered classroom offers strategies that fall into the following five educational arenas: (1) integrated curricula; (2) thoughtful instruction; (3) active learning; (4) reflective transfer; and (5) authentic assessment. Section one presents an overview of natural, holistic, integrated curricula created…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies
Mindful Learning: 101 Proven Strategies for Student and Teacher Success.
Campbell, Linda – 2003
This book outlines 101 tried-and-true strategies for making teaching more effective. Grounded in research from the cognitive sciences and best classroom practices, the strategies are divided into the following areas: "Beginning With What Students Know: Activating Prior Knowledge" (e.g., visual sequencing, speaking categorically, and guided…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education
One Kid at a Time: Big Lessons from a Small School. Series on School Reform. The Series on School Reform.
Levine, Eliot – 2002
The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (the Met) is a unique public high school in Providence, Rhode Island. The Met has no classes, no grades, no tests, and no easy rides. With guidance from adults, each student builds a customized education focused on five learning goals: communication, social reasoning, empirical reasoning,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Case Studies, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Exploring Blue Highways: Literacy Reform, School Change, and the Creation of Learning Communities.
Allen, JoBeth; And Others – 1995
This book shows how teacher research and reform can positively change both teachers and students, making them better readers, writers, and learners. Two elementary schools in Georgia, serving students in a poor area that lacks educational resources, are the focus of the Kings Bridge Road Research Team, a group composed of public school teachers,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change