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De Cesare, Christie – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2002
An English-as-second-language teacher feels that everyone has creativity and imagination, and the teacher's role is to nurture those qualities. Drawing on the Foxfire core practices, she acknowledges and reinforces those moments when learners reveal their own unique insights into learning, and she facilitates exploratory and innovative thinking…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Educational Practices
Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2000
A Brooklyn high school photography program encourages students to work for the pleasure of doing something well, not just for grades. Concepts are explained four different ways so students at different ability levels catch on. Working cooperatively encourages kids to recognize their abilities and take on more responsibility. A unique grading…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Art Education, Cognitive Style, Educational Environment
Moon, Susan – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1996
A high school teacher in rural Georgia who has used the 11 Foxfire Core Practices for seven years describes how they have helped her enable students to guide their own learning and think for themselves. Her classes' high scores on state writing tests and Spanish competitions are further testimony to the viability of the practices. (TD)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Principles, Experiential Learning, High School Students
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
Schreiber, Fredric – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1999
A teacher describes using some of the Foxfire core practices to teach a "last chance" program for students in grades 7-8 who were angry, oppositional, and defiant. After a cooperative classroom planning process in which counselors helped students articulate their ideas, the students began revealing their interests. These interests, in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Experiential Learning, High Risk Students, Junior High School Students
Shelton, Jack – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2000
Jack Shelton, teacher, minister, and community builder, describes the benefits of education that is active, relevant, and involved in the community. As coordinator of a cooperative of 29 small rural Alabama schools that enables teachers to implement experiential educational approaches rooted in community study and service, he discusses the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
