Students Taking Charge

Students Taking Charge
Author: Nancy Sulla
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2013-07-23
Genre:
ISBN: 1317927591

The Common Core State Standards demand a level of understanding that requires students to engage with content. Students Taking Charge: Inside the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom focuses on increasing academic rigor, fostering student engagement, and increasing student responsibility for learning. Teachers and administrators who recognize the needs of today's society and students, and their impact on teaching and learning, can use this book to create student-centered classrooms that make technology a vital part of their lessons. Filled with practical examples and step-by-step guidelines, Students Taking Charge will help educators design innovative learning environments that allow students to take ownership of learning so they can achieve at high levels and meet the rigorous requirements of the Common Core. These innovative learning environments also empower students through problem-based learning and differentiation, where students pose questions and actively seek answers. Computer technology is then used seamlessly throughout the day for information, communication, collaboration, and product generation. Check out the learner-active classroom in action! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjyiclWVJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zoXfaY0XhU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y91flkGcyX4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjHH_ujBIFw

Students Taking Charge in Grades 6–12

Students Taking Charge in Grades 6–12
Author: Nancy Sulla
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2018-10-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351858440

Discover how to design innovative learning environments that increase student ownership so they can achieve at high levels and meet rigorous standards. Students Taking Charge shows you how to create student-centered classrooms that empower learners through problem-based learning and differentiation, where students pose questions and actively seek answers. Technology is then used seamlessly throughout the day for information, communication, collaboration, and product generation. You’ll find out how to: Design an Authentic Learning Unit, which is at the core of the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom, aimed at engaging students; Understand the structures needed to support its implementation and empower students; Build the facilitation strategies that will move students from engagement to empowerment to efficacy. This new 6–12 edition offers a more detailed look into secondary school implementation. With the book’s practical examples and step-by-step guidelines, you’ll be able to start designing your innovative classroom immediately!

Students Taking Charge Implementation Guide for Leaders

Students Taking Charge Implementation Guide for Leaders
Author: Nancy Sulla
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2019
Genre: Active learning
ISBN: 9781138713871

Lead your organization to implement innovative learning environments that increase student ownership so they can achieve at high levels and meet rigorous standards. Students Taking Charge Implementation Guide for Leadersshows you how to inspire, coach, and support teachers to create student-driven classrooms that empower learners through problem-based learning and differentiation, where students pose questions and actively seek answers. Technology is then used seamlessly throughout the day for information, communication, collaboration, and product generation. You'll find out how to: Inspire the adaptive change at the core of the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom, aimed at engaging students; Understand the structures needed to support its implementation and empower teachers and students; Employ leadership strategies that will move teachers and students from engagement to empowerment to efficacy. This new implementation guide for school leaders offers a more detailed look into the key mindset shifts that are critical for leaders of a Learner-Active, Technology-Infused School. With the book's practical examples and step-by-step guidelines, you'll be able to help your teachers implement innovative classrooms immediately. t;LI>Employ leadership strategies that will move teachers and students from engagement to empowerment to efficacy. This new implementation guide for school leaders offers a more detailed look into the key mindset shifts that are critical for leaders of a Learner-Active, Technology-Infused School. With the book's practical examples and step-by-step guidelines, you'll be able to help your teachers implement innovative classrooms immediately.

Students Taking Charge in Grades K-5

Students Taking Charge in Grades K-5
Author: Nancy Sulla
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351858351

Discover how to design innovative learning environments that increase student ownership so they can achieve at high levels and meet rigorous standards. Students Taking Charge shows you how to create student-driven classrooms that empower learners through problem-based learning and differentiation, where students pose questions and actively seek answers. Technology is then used seamlessly throughout the day for information, communication, collaboration, and product generation. You’ll find out how to: Design an Authentic Learning Unit, which is at the core of the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom, aimed at engaging students; Understand the structures needed to support its implementation and empower students; Build the facilitation strategies that will move students from engagement to empowerment to efficacy. This new K–5 edition offers a more detailed look into elementary school implementation. With the book’s practical examples and step-by-step guidelines, you’ll be able to start designing your innovative classroom immediately!

Taking Charge of Change

Taking Charge of Change
Author: Shirley M. Hord
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1987
Genre: Curriculum change
ISBN:

"This book provides diagnostic techniques for assessing the needs of school personnel involved in implementing new innovations for school improvement. Using the Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) as a framework, it discusses the roles and personal needs of the people involved in the change process and provides strategies for the total management of an innovation. The first strategy offers ways to introduce the change or innovation and to monitor the variety and diversity of implementation. A component checklist for determining the range of operational patterns found in classrooms is described. In the second strategy, seven stages of concern experienced by teachers involved in the change process are identified, and suggestions are given on how to deliver interventions that will respond to each stage of concern. The concept of the innovation's levels of use provides the third strategy, which identifies the degree to which teachers are using the new practices. It is noted that this tool is useful for assisting teachers to move to higher levels of use as well as for evaluating the progress of the change implementation effort. Numerous figures supplement the text. (JD)"--ERIC dbase.

Accountability for Learning

Accountability for Learning
Author: Douglas B. Reeves
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0871208334

How to transform educational accountability into a constructive force for improving learning and teaching rather than something "done to" (and resented by) teachers.

Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education

Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0393285979

“If you read only one book on educating children, this should be the book.… With a warm, informative voice, Bauer gives you the knowledge that will help you flex the educational model to meet the needs of your child.” —San Francisco Book Review Our K–12 school system isn’t a good fit for all—or even most—students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity, and slaps “disability” labels on differences in learning style. Caught in this system, far too many young learners end up discouraged. This informed, compassionate, and practical guidebook will show you how to take control of your child’s K–12 experience and negotiate the school system in a way that nurtures your child’s mind, emotions, and spirit. Understand why we have twelve grades, and why we match them to ages. Evaluate your child’s maturity, and determine how to use that knowledge to your advantage. Find out what subject areas we study in school, why they exist—and how to tinker with them. Discover what learning disabilities and intellectual giftedness are, how they can overlap, how to recognize them, and how those labels can help (or hinder) you. Work effectively with your child’s teachers, tutors, and coaches. Learn to teach important subjects yourself. Challenge accepted ideas about homework and standardized testing. Help your child develop a vision for the future. Reclaim your families’ priorities (including time for eating together, playing, imagining, traveling, and, yes, sleeping!). Plan for college—or apprenticeships. Consider out-of-the-box alternatives.

Teaching with Love & Logic

Teaching with Love & Logic
Author: Jim Fay
Publisher: Love & Logic Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 1995
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780944634295

Presents techniques for teaching based on the "Love and Logic" philosophy of working with children.

Fuzzy Takes Charge (Class Pets #2)

Fuzzy Takes Charge (Class Pets #2)
Author: Bruce Hale
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2018-06-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338145231

What do class pets get up to when students aren't around? Adventure -- and lots of trouble! Class 5B has a substitute teacher -- and he's the worst! Fuzzy might just be 5B's pet guinea pig, but he will not stand by while his kids suffer. With the help of the Class Pets Club, Fuzzy is going to drive the terrible sub out of town ... or lose his whiskers trying!