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Exciting Classrooms

Practical Information to Ensure Student Success
  • ISBN-13: 9781475823035
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
  • By Frank Thoms
  • Price: AUD $90.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/01/2016
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Education [JN]
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Frank Thoms writes with passion to invite principals and teachers to make changes that will allow all students to succeed. In this book he urges them to reconsider traditional practices in light of today's media-driven culture and digitally wired students. Exciting Classrooms is sensitive to the challenges schools face and is relentless in offering strategies to meet these challenges. Schools must do better. Rather than focus on improving test scores, this book advocates that teachers teach to a child's whole symphony, not only to one note. If students only learn to succeed on bubble tests, they will not have opportunities to discover their true potential. Thoms sees the teaching process as a joint venture between teacher and student where the teacher brings learning to the student and, at the same time, brings the student to the learning. This process demands at least as much listening as talking, a new habit that teachers and principals need to learn.
Meet Dan Hilliard Introduction I: What Can We Do Immediately? 1 Implement 10-2 Thinking 2 Instill Skills 3 Teach Literacy 4 Design Invitations 5 Make Meaning II: How Can We Expand Our Teaching Practice? 6 See the Big Picture 7 Search for Wisdom 8 Stay Current 9 Seek the Higher Road III: What Must We Change? 10 Abolish Tracking 11 Abandon the Crabs in the Cage 12 Stop the Interruptions 13 End One-Size-Fits-All Teaching IV: What Can We Learn from Beyond the Culture of Schools? 14 Become a Gadfly 15 Leverage Tipping Points 16 Teach As If 17 Take the Long View 18 Imagine the Ideal 19 Invoke the Cosmos V: How Do We Find Our Calling? 20 Grow Our Seeds 21 Rethink Our Philosophy 22 Achieve Our Dreams 23 Become Stakeholders 24 Begin at the End CODA: Make a Difference EPILOGUE: Hidden Expectations APPENDIX: Teaching Manifesto Index Acknowledgments About the Author
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