Synopses & Reviews
Giving children choices leads to deep engagement in learning. This comprehensive guidebook shows you step by step how to give children structured, meaningful choices about what and how they learn. Within any curriculum, the powerful teaching strategy of Academic Choice will help you create a classroom culture in which children see themselves and each other as capable learners. You'll learn how to:
* Build on children's natural curiosity, desire for autonomy, and need to feel competent
* Teach the social skills essential to a community of learners (listening, sharing ideas, working collaboratively, offering helpful and respectful comments on each other's work)
* Teach the intellectual skills necessary for independent learning (observing thoughtfully; connecting with prior learning; making choices; using materials carefully and creatively; learning how to learn through a cycle of planning, working, and reflecting)
Synopsis
Provides information on using Academic Choice to increase students' motivation and academic skills.
Synopsis
Academic Choice is a powerful tool for increasing students' motivation and academic skills and building community in the classroom. In Learning Through Academic Choice, long-time educator and Responsive Classroom consulting teacher Paula Denton guides teachers step-by-step through the process of introducing Academic Choice into their teaching.
In this practical and comprehensive book, teachers will: learn how to build a strong foundation for Academic Choice; follow a teacher through each phase of implementing an Academic Choice lesson; learn the details of planning an Academic Choice lesson; find a wide range of specific lesson plans and activity ideas for grades K-6.