This sensible, invigorating book offers lesson plans and practical suggestions for stimulating active learning and creating learning opportunities in new ways. It directs teachers to simple methods of inspiring a questioning attitude that will help students master skills, acquire information, and become critically aware of their own possibilities as learners. The book shows teachers how to encourage students to:
- grapple with problems that interest them and share new understandings
- represent their new understanding in drama and movement, visual arts, and electronic media
- share leadership in groups as they talk through ideas
- engage in ideas that force them to rethink what they know
- reflect on how, what, why and when they are learning
Teachers will find engaging entry points and proven strategies they can use, and a refreshed and revitalized view of everyday teaching they will love.