Ages 5-14
Yes, but ... if they like it, they’ll learn it! How to plan, organize, and assess learning experiences with meaning, purpose and joy
Susan Church, Jane Baskwill & Margaret Swain
In today's results-based classrooms, pupil engagement and fulfilment are too often left behind as teachers strive to meet external standards. This innovative book explores best practices and projects designed to meet the literacy learning needs of a diverse range of students. It shows how to connect pupil knowledge, experience and interests to literacy learning in a way that is relevant and valuable.
Providing detailed descriptions of actual classroom practices and practical suggestions for positive change in the classroom, the authors challenge teachers to reflect on both the projects described and their own teaching style:
- how are learning outcomes, objectives or standards addressed?
- how does the teacher support and extend the literacy learning of their class?
- how do classroom assessment practices support pupil growth?
- how are parents and the wider community involved?
Based on decades of work in schools and rooted in extensive research, the book presents an effective framework for designing a curriculum that fosters pupil engagement. It explores all aspects of evaluation and suggests novel ways to use class self-assessment to help pupils recognise their own individual learning styles.
Contents
Introduction; Insights from Research; A Curricular Framework for Literacy Engagement; Learning through the Arts; Activating Community Advocacy; Developing Critical Consumers; Working Towards Social Justice; Connecting Literacy across the Curriculum; Making Connections between Life and Literature; Bibliography; Index
2007 120pp paperback
978-155138-211-1
£24.99
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