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Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1998
The Foxfire core practices are woven into all class activities at a multiage, inclusive K-2 class in Asheville (North Carolina), characterized by active learning, small-group work, and peer teaching. Students are more motivated and have higher self-esteem when they make decisions. All practices met the state's curriculum and testing requirements.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning
Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2000
Students in a combined grade 3-4 in a charter school in Asheville, North Carolina, chose the topics and ways to demonstrate their learning to fulfill history curriculum requirements. Their choices of local historical architecture and traditional quilt-making spiraled out to include photography, historical fiction, and quilted pillows, which were…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Charter Schools, Educational Practices, Elementary Education
Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2000
The teacher of an inclusive K-3 class in Pike County, Kentucky, chose coal as a topic because it had meaning to her students and they could use the community as a learning laboratory. Although a democratic classroom fostered student ownership of the material, older and younger students had different motivational requirements. (TD)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Coal, Death, Educational Practices
