Download or read book Inspiring Meaningful Learning written by Brenda Stein Dzaldov and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable book explores the essential steps for planning lessons that grab the attention of students and make them care about their learning, from activating prior knowledge and sparking curiosity; to focusing on content, skills, and inquiry; to reviewing work and finding students’ next steps. Built around the three key areas that are most important to meaningful learning — content, pedagogy, and building rapport with students — this practical book shows you how to make every lesson engaging, impactful, and even fun!
Download or read book Inspiring Autonomous and Meaningful Learning Through Mnemonic and Storytelling Techniques written by Mari Linn McGovern and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inspiring Spaces for Young Children written by Jessica DeViney and published by Gryphon House Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classroom environment is an essential component for maximizing learning experiences for young children. "Inspiring Spaces for Young Children "invites teachers to enhance children's educational environment in a beautiful way by emphasizing aesthetic environmental qualities that are often overlooked in early childhood classrooms, such as nature, color, furnishings, textures, displays, lighting, and focal points. Step-by-step instructions and lush photographs take educators through the process of transforming ordinary classrooms into creative, beautiful learning spaces, providing children with an environment where they can learn and grow. With easy-to-implement ideas that incorporate nature, children's artwork, and everyday classroom materials, the photographs and ideas in this book promote creativity, learning, and simple beauty.
Download or read book Visible Learning Feedback written by John Hattie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feedback is arguably the most critical and powerful aspect of teaching and learning. Yet, there remains a paradox: why is feedback so powerful and why is it so variable? It is this paradox which Visible Learning: Feedback aims to unravel and resolve. Combining research excellence, theory and vast teaching expertise, this book covers the principles and practicalities of feedback, including: the variability of feedback, the importance of surface, deep and transfer contexts, student to teacher feedback, peer to peer feedback, the power of within lesson feedback and manageable post-lesson feedback. With numerous case-studies, examples and engaging anecdotes woven throughout, the authors also shed light on what creates an effective feedback culture and provide the teaching and learning structures which give the best possible framework for feedback. Visible Learning: Feedback brings together two internationally known educators and merges Hattie’s world-famous research expertise with Clarke’s vast experience of classroom practice and application, making this book an essential resource for teachers in any setting, phase or country.
Download or read book How People Learn II written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important implications for individual learning, schooling, workforce training, and policy. In 2000, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition was published and its influence has been wide and deep. The report summarized insights on the nature of learning in school-aged children; described principles for the design of effective learning environments; and provided examples of how that could be implemented in the classroom. Since then, researchers have continued to investigate the nature of learning and have generated new findings related to the neurological processes involved in learning, individual and cultural variability related to learning, and educational technologies. In addition to expanding scientific understanding of the mechanisms of learning and how the brain adapts throughout the lifespan, there have been important discoveries about influences on learning, particularly sociocultural factors and the structure of learning environments. How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures provides a much-needed update incorporating insights gained from this research over the past decade. The book expands on the foundation laid out in the 2000 report and takes an in-depth look at the constellation of influences that affect individual learning. How People Learn II will become an indispensable resource to understand learning throughout the lifespan for educators of students and adults.
Download or read book Powerful Learning written by Linda Darling-Hammond and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Powerful Learning, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a clear, comprehensive, and engaging exploration of the most effective classroom practices. They review, in practical terms, teaching strategies that generate meaningful K–2 student understanding, and occur both within the classroom walls and beyond. The book includes rich stories, as well as online videos of innovative classrooms and schools, that show how students who are taught well are able to think critically, employ flexible problem-solving, and apply learned skills and knowledge to new situations.
Download or read book Inspiring Active Learning written by Merrill Harmin and published by Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategies to help students become active, responsible learners.
Download or read book Meaningful Making written by Paulo Blikstein and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The FabLearn Fellows share inspirational ideas from their learning spaces, assessment strategies and recommended projects across a broad range of age levels. Illustrated with color photos of real student work, the Fellows take you on a tour of the future of learning, where children make sense of the world by making things that matter.
Download or read book Educational Research and Innovation The Nature of Learning Using Research to Inspire Practice written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the lessons of research on both the nature of learning and different educational applications, and it summarises these as seven key concluding principles.
Download or read book Discomfort By Design written by Chad Ledune and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Author: Read any school's mission statement and you will probably discover each strives to prepare students for the world that awaits them after their educational journey. This is a world full of experiences and challenges which are outside the comfort zones of many of our students. All of this will require specific skills and traits which are often overlooked by our current, result-oriented, education system. Discomfort by Design takes you on an entertaining and inspirational journey through a process of stepping out of our comfort zones both in and outside of the classroom. Along the way, Discomfort by Design fosters essential skills in all of us, promotes critical thinking and problem-solving, and encourages us to pursue becoming a better version of ourselves. It's a life-changing message and process that every student, teacher, administrator, and parent needs to experience. Editorial Reviews: If you want to see the real face of education - the one fraught with challenges and setbacks yet leads to inspiration - this book is for you. Chad LeDune shares his own discomfort and how it helped him improve as an educator. You'll learn about design learning and a framework for creating meaningful learning. It is Discomfort by Design, something Chad has earned and freely shares in these pages! Matt Miller- Educator - Speaker - Author of Ditch That Textbook In Discomfort by Design, Chad has given educators simple ideas to build a culture of learning based on design thinking in any school. This book will help you rethink what you value in education, inspire you to take hold of every day as a chance to grow, and challenge you to redesign learning to go beyond buzzwords & technology. Chris Woods Teacher - Speaker - Author of Daily STEM To truly educate our children, we must provide an atmosphere that enables them to take risks in their thinking. In his innovative yet extremely practical and straightforward book, Discomfort by Design, Chad LeDune shows us how we can motivate, engage, and inspire students to take ownership of their learning and become critical thinkers. He explains how this is effectively implemented at every level and how the design process is essential in and out of an educational setting. I especially appreciate the SEL connection and the way Chad uses his own personal experiences to bring his very strong and much-needed wisdom to life. A must-read for anyone looking to challenge others, promote problem-solving, and be personally inspired! Jennifer Lee Quattrucci - Educator - Author of Educate the Heart
Download or read book Learning Creating and Using Knowledge written by Joseph D. Novak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated edition of Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge recognizes that the future of economic well being in today's knowledge and information society rests upon the effectiveness of schools and corporations to empower their people to be more effective learners and knowledge creators. Novak’s pioneering theory of education presented in the first edition remains viable and useful. This new edition updates his theory for meaningful learning and autonomous knowledge building along with tools to make it operational ─ that is, concept maps, created with the use of CMapTools and the V diagram. The theory is easy to put into practice, since it includes resources to facilitate the process, especially concept maps, now optimised by CMapTools software. CMapTools software is highly intuitive and easy to use. People who have until now been reluctant to use the new technologies in their professional lives are will find this book particularly helpful. Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge is essential reading for educators at all levels and corporate managers who seek to enhance worker productivity.
Download or read book Establishing a Leadership Mindset written by Tony Holland and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By developing a leadership mindset, teachers are better able to inspire and facilitate a deeper and more meaningful learning environment. Establishing a Leadership Mindset: A Guide to Using the Power of the Human Brain to Motivate Learning, provides educators with high-impact strategies supported by recent advances in cognitive science and brain physiology. Furthermore, because these strategies support productive neuronal growth, they ensure maximum learning for a greater diversity of students, leading to a closure of achievement gaps and more equitable opportunities for success. These strategies are universal, can be adapted to any subject matter at any level, and have been replicated in the crucible of the classroom, department, division, college, and system with amazing results. Using the multiplying effects of a leadership mentality with a team or organization is a buy-in to constant improvement—for students, teachers, employees, and supervisors. The inspirational goal of providing a learning/growth environment that moves others beyond their self-perceived limitations can be shared by all leaders, whether they lead students, children, athletes, employees, soldiers, colleagues, or others. By applying the concepts and principles in this book, readers can implement a lead-by-example approach that will allow them to enhance their own lives in their journey to enhancing the lives of others.
Download or read book Inspiring Middle and Secondary Learners written by Kathleen Kryza and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2007-04-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspire students to construct their own learning experiences with research-based, easy-to-implement strategies for differentiated instruction across increasingly diversified student bodies.
Download or read book In Search of Deeper Learning written by Jal Mehta and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read."--Jay Mathews, Washington Post An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America's most innovative classrooms to show what is working--and what isn't--in our schools. What would it take to transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine's quest to answer this question took them inside some of America's most innovative schools and classrooms--places where educators are rethinking both what and how students should learn. The story they tell is alternately discouraging and hopeful. Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at thirty different schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they find pockets of powerful learning at almost every school, often in electives and extracurriculars as well as in a few mold-breaking academic courses. These spaces achieve depth, the authors argue, because they emphasize purpose and choice, cultivate community, and draw on powerful traditions of apprenticeship. These outliers suggest that it is difficult but possible for schools and classrooms to achieve the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy, precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity. This boldly humanistic book offers a rich account of what education can be. The first panoramic study of American public high schools since the 1980s, In Search of Deeper Learning lays out a new vision for American education--one that will set the agenda for schools of the future.
Download or read book Draw to Learn written by Nanna Frank and published by Tools for Schools. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for teachers and leaders who aspire to create curious and collaborative learning cultures using Graphic Facilitation. 'Draw to Learn' offers practices and processes for how to create Meaningful Learning Communities and illustrates how Graphic Facilitation can be a powerful and playful tool to offer shared clarity, support clear communication and invite participation inside and outside the classroom. Change is a natural and inevitable part of our personal and professional life. At times we consciously bring about change and sometimes change is imposed or invited from outside. No matter how change comes about, it is our experience that more often than not, we are challenged when we are required to change, develop and practice new ways of working. At the same time we acknowledge that change is at the heart of what it means to be a learner and to grow as a human being. In the book we will dig into and unfold what Meaningful Learning Communities are, and how Graphic Facilitation can support you in creating the optimal conditions for these communities to thrive in an educational context. We are introducing visual methods that can be used to visualise learning processes and learning strategies, create clarity around objectives and progression as well as invite students and teachers to contribute with their own knowledge and competences. These methods can build an enriching, inspiring and motivating learning environment where children and adults alike can acquire and create new knowledge and competences together. In the book you will find visual templates, DIY drawing exercises, cases from the classroom, an extensive icon library and inspiration for how you can use Graphic Facilitation in your daily work to create inspiring and collaborative learning environments. Enjoy!!
Download or read book Assessment as a Catalyst for Learning written by Garnet Hillman and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When designed in ways that inspire and motivate, assessment is a gift to our students. With this resource as your guide, you'll embrace a fresh mindset where assessment becomes a process that propels meaningful learning for all. Authors Garnet Hillman and Mandy Stalets dive deep into how you can work individually or collaboratively to intentionally identify and unwrap priority standards, develop learning progressions, design assessments, and plan daily instruction. Design mindful, intentional assessment practices that develop learning progressions and help students plan their own path to proficiency: Understand how to use formal and informal formative assessment as well as summative assessment to empower students and increase learning for all. Analyze ways to plan backward and design mindful assessment and instruction. Receive practical steps for application for developing learning progressions, summative assessments, and formative assessments. Discover how to collaborate around assessment with professional learning community (PLC) concepts. Answer end-of-chapter reflection questions to deepen your understanding of key concepts. Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: Assessment Defined Chapter 2: Learning Progressions Chapter 3: Summative Assessment Chapter 4: Informal Formative Assessment Chapter 5: Formal Formative Assessment Chapter 6: Assessment Comes Full Circle Conclusion References and Resources Index
Download or read book Meaningful Engagement in Educational Activity and Purposes for Learning written by Matthew Charles Andrews and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American political culture that encourages competition on standardized tests, epitomized by the policy of Race to the Top, oversimplifies students' motivation for learning. This dissertation argues that educational research on student learning and activity engagement should consider motives beyond the pursuit of good grades in the classroom, prestigious college credentials, and going to school because it is what students are supposed to do. In particular, the studies highlight the moral inspirations and cultural habits behind students' engagement in life activities, and how inspiration and habits help to direct learning in life. A case study of an ordinary high school senior articulates a common motive to enroll in college to achieve success in life. Comparative case studies contrast emotional experiences with social responsibilities in order to articulate purposes for learning beyond standardized achievement. Findings suggest that volunteer community service, engagements with family, involvement in religious activities, and working for pay could provide inspiration for students to engage in learning in life.
