Download or read book The Synergistic Relationship Between Student Empowerment and Creativity in the Middle School Classroom written by Sheri LaRowe Cooke and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine and describe the interplay of classroom environment relationships between seventh and eighth grade teachers and their students, and its effects on student empowerment and students' creativity in their academic work. After an extensive review of the literature, student empowerment was defined as the presence of the following characteristics: student choice/ownership, student voice/decision-making, goal-setting, self-efficacy, self-evaluation, risk-taking/initiative, independence/autonomy, and collaboration. A creative product was defined as an artifact which displays originality, functionality, and elegance/aesthetics. The case study design of this study included the gathering of data such as student surveys, teacher and student interviews, classroom observations, and student work samples. Findings are communicated through a discussion of themes and patterns. A theory for the enhancement of student empowerment and creativity is presented, with a discussion of the implications for the synergistic relationships among the constructs studied. It was determined at this case study site that democratic classrooms which include trusting, positive teacher/student relationships are likely to result in students being empowered to make choices and decisions that drive their own learning. This empowerment is a vital element in the creative process. The context, or environment, is a critical component. A change to the environment, including the relationships within the environment, will change the levels of empowerment and creativity within the environment. A theoretical model, EREC - Environment, Relationships, Empowerment, and Creativity - is proposed, highlighting the overlapping systems relationship among the four constructs. Pedagogical implications emphasize the need for positive school and classroom environments where collaboration and independence are fostered, where playfulness is valued, where feelings are acknowledged and supported, and outside controls and curricular restraints (such as standardized curriculum and assessments) are kept to a minimum. Implications for the research community indicate that further examination is warranted on why some students resist efforts toward empowerment. More information is also needed to fully describe informal relationships between teachers and their students, outside of classroom interactions.
Download or read book Eight Myths of Student Disengagement written by Jennifer A. Fredricks and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your expert resource to activate, manage, and maintain lasting student success! Education expert Jennifer Fredricks empowers teachers to reengage students at all levels with clear-eyed implementation strategies that build essential 21st century learning skills. Teachers learn to confidently: Identify students most at risk for disengagement Implement student-centered, project-based learning practices for maximum educational outcomes Work effectively with diverse groups of disengaged youth Build positive peer cultures and high-quality student-teacher relationships Straightforward how-to’s from practicing classroom teachers, print and web-based resources, and assessment tips help educators cultivate lasting student engagement and transform educational outcomes with this must-have resource!
Download or read book Creativity and Innovation in Times of Crisis COVID 19 written by Roni Reiter-Palmon and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Educational Research and Innovation Fostering Students Creativity and Critical Thinking What it Means in School written by Vincent-Lancrin Stéphan and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity and critical thinking are key skills for complex, globalised and increasingly digitalised economies and societies. While teachers and education policy makers consider creativity and critical thinking as important learning goals, it is still unclear to many what it means to develop these skills in a school setting. To make it more visible and tangible to practitioners, the OECD worked with networks of schools and teachers in 11 countries to develop and trial a set of pedagogical resources that exemplify what it means to teach, learn and make progress in creativity and critical thinking in primary and secondary education.
Download or read book Current Index to Journals in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Science of Learning and Development written by Pamela Cantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child. The ideas presented provide researchers and educators with a rationale for focusing on the specific pathways and developmental patterns that may lead a specific child, with a specific family, school, and community, to prosper in school and in life. Expanding key published articles and expert commentary, the book explores a profound evolution in thinking that integrates findings from psychology with biology through sociology, education, law, and history with an emphasis on institutionalized inequities and disparate outcomes and how to address them. It points toward possible solutions through an understanding of and addressing the dynamic relations between a child and the contexts within which he or she lives, offering all researchers of human development and education a new way to understand and promote healthy development and learning for diverse, specific youth regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or history of adversity, challenge, or trauma. The book brings together scholars and practitioners from the biological/medical sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, educational science, and fields of law and social and educational policy. It provides an invaluable and unique resource for understanding the bases and status of the new science, and presents a roadmap for progress that will frame progress for at least the next decade and perhaps beyond.
Download or read book Achievement and Motivation written by Ann K. Boggiano and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achievement and Motivation was originally published in 1993. It provides a comprehensive review of research conducted on the topic in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Most particularly, it focuses on the research of those in the field who tackle the issue from a social-developmental perspective.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Leader in Me written by Stephen R. Covey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children in today's world are inundated with information about who to be, what to do and how to live. But what if there was a way to teach children how to manage priorities, focus on goals and be a positive influence on the world around them? The Leader in Meis that programme. It's based on a hugely successful initiative carried out at the A.B. Combs Elementary School in North Carolina. To hear the parents of A. B Combs talk about the school is to be amazed. In 1999, the school debuted a programme that taught The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peopleto a pilot group of students. The parents reported an incredible change in their children, who blossomed under the programme. By the end of the following year the average end-of-grade scores had leapt from 84 to 94. This book will launch the message onto a much larger platform. Stephen R. Covey takes the 7 Habits, that have already changed the lives of millions of people, and shows how children can use them as they develop. Those habits -- be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek to understand and then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw -- are critical skills to learn at a young age and bring incredible results, proving that it's never too early to teach someone how to live well.
Download or read book Equity Centered Trauma Informed Education written by Alex Shevrin Venet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators must both respond to the impact of trauma, and prevent trauma at school. Trauma-informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviors of students and ascribe them to circumstances that students are facing outside of school. This approach ignores the reality that inequity itself causes trauma, and that schools often heighten inequities when implementing trauma-informed practices that are not based in educational equity. In this fresh look at trauma-informed practice, Alex Shevrin Venet urges educators to shift equity to the center as they consider policies and professional development. Using a framework of six principles for equity-centered trauma-informed education, Venet offers practical action steps that teachers and school leaders can take from any starting point, using the resources and influence at their disposal to make shifts in practice, pedagogy, and policy. Overthrowing inequitable systems is a process, not an overnight change. But transformation is possible when educators work together, and teachers can do more than they realize from within their own classrooms.
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learner Centered Instruction written by Jeffrey H. Cornelius-White and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplementary text that provides a practical yet comprehensive explanation of learner-centered instruction.
Download or read book Interpersonal Relationships in Education From Theory to Practice written by David Zandvliet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together recent research on interpersonal relationships in education from a variety of perspectives including research from Europe, North America and Australia. The work clearly demonstrates that positive teacher-student relationships can contribute to student learning in classrooms of various types. Productive learning environments are characterized by supportive and warm interactions throughout the class: teacher-student and student-student. Similarly, at the school level, teacher learning thrives when there are positive and mentoring interrelationships among professional colleagues. Work on this book began with a series of formative presentations at the second International Conference on Interpersonal Relationships in Education (ICIRE 2012) held in Vancouver, Canada, an event that included among others, keynote addresses by David Berliner, Andrew Martin and Mieke Brekelmans. Further collaboration and peer review by the editorial team resulted in the collection of original research that this book comprises. The volume (while eclectic) demonstrates how constructive learning environment relationships can be developed and sustained in a variety of settings. Chapter contributions come from a range of fields including educational and social psychology, teacher and school effectiveness research, communication and language studies, and a variety of related fields. Together, they cover the important influence of the relationships of teachers with individual students, relationships among peers, and the relationships between teachers and their professional colleagues.
Download or read book Promoting Social and Emotional Learning written by Maurice J. Elias and published by ASCD. This book was released on 1997 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors draw upon scientific studies, theories, site visits, nd their own extensive experiences to describe approaches to social and emotional learning for all levels.
Download or read book Teaching Together written by Mary Christenson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bulletin, a collection of essays, provides preservice, beginning, and experienced social studies teachers with provocative ideas for and a realistic look at the challenges of developing curriculum through collaboration between elementary/secondary teachers and university professors. The book begins with an introductory essay by the editors. Under the first section, Elementary, are the following essays: (1) "Teaching Primary-Grade Students about Cultural Universals" (J. Alleman; J. Brophy; B. L. Knighton; G. M. Henig); (2) "Teaching Social Studies in an Urban Elementary School: Collaboration for Integration and Inquiry Learning" (K. C. Barton; L. A. Kreimer); (3) "Service-Learning and Community-Based Teaching and Learning: Developing Citizenship through Social Action" (S. R. Beisser; D. Schmidt); (4) "Family/School/University Collaboration To Enrich Social Studies Instruction" (B. Cozza; T. Mbugua; P. Noakes; M. Intoccia; L. Guzzi; M. L. Kelly); and (5) "Connecting Family and State Histories: A Teacher Educator and Classroom Teacher Collaborate" (A. L. McCall; T. Ristow). Essays under the second section, Middle School, are: (6) "Students Reclaim Their Community's History: Conducting Interdisciplinary Research with Technological Applications" (M. Alibrandi; C. Beal; A. V. Wilson; A. Thompson; B. Mackie; N. Sinclair; V. Owens; R. Hagevik); (7) "Global Connections Project: Collaboration among Middle Level Students and Teachers and University Teacher Education Students and Faculty" (H. Carlson; C. Holm); (8) "Developing a Service Ethic Together: A Middle School/University Partnership" (A. M. Harwood; C. Allsop; L. Herink; C. Hart); (9) "Public Achievement: Collaboration, Action, and Civic Education" (J. Kunkel; C. Johnson; H. Bakke; J. Miller); and (10) "Integrating the Curriculum and Examining Social Issues in the Sixth Grade" (A. J. Milson; L. Elish-Piper; P. Downey; J. Nordstrom). Essays under the final section, High School, are: (11) "School Schedules: A Key to Time and Team Teaching in the American Social History Project" (D. Gerwin; V. Manolios); (12) "Dual Agendas of Reform and Research: Implementing the Reforms of the Coalition of Essential Schools through 'World Connections'" (M. M. Merryfield; S. Shapiro); (13) "Collaborating on High School Economics" (N. Mallory; S. L. Miller); (14) "Collaboration on Campus: Teaching Rural High School Students through College Methods Classes" (S. B. Oldendorf; M. R. Riney; J. Hutchison); (15) "Preserving Oral Historical Resources through a Community, University, and School-Based Collaboration" (W. W. Wilen; L. Picicco); and (16) "Teacher Release to Industry Program as Professional Development of Teachers of Social Studies" (W. Prior; R. Symons). (BT)
Download or read book Creativity in Education Learning written by A. J. Cropley and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Successful School Leadership written by Christopher Day and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
