A Meaningful Mess: A Teacher's Guide to Student-Driven Classrooms, Authentic Learning, Student Empowerment, and Keeping It All Together W

ISBN-13: 9781618218414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 174 str.

Andi McNair

Opis

A Meaningful Mess offers suggestions and specific tools that can be used to engage this generation of students in meaningful, relevant, and student-driven learning experiences—even if things in the classroom may get messy, both literally and figuratively.

Recenzje

Not only does McNair define key terms in a manner likely to enhance practitioners' understanding of the broad ongoing discussion of this topic in the field, she provides a plan to tackle the challenges of a student-driven, authentic, empowered classroom environment. ,Paige Hendricks,Roeper Review, 1/14/20
Packed from cover to cover with useful, real-world practical ideas, suggestions, insightful commentaries, all designed to bring useful order out of the inherent stresses and strains of today's education system at the classroom level, A Meaningful Mess is unreservedly recommended for school district, college, and university library Teacher Education collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. ,Midwest Book Review, 6/7/19

Spis treści

Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1 What Makes a Mess Meaningful? CHAPTER 2 Getting to Know Gen Z CHAPTER 3 Giving Students What They Deserve CHAPTER 4 Letting Go of Control CHAPTER 5 Empowerment Versus Compliance CHAPTER 6 The 3 E’s:Designing Meaningful Learning Experiences CHAPTER 7 The 4 C’s +1 R:Collaboration, Communication, Creativity,Critical Thinking, and Reflection CHAPTER 8 Learning by Doing:Genius Hour and Meaningful Makerspaces CHAPTER 9 Going Global CHAPTER 10 Reflection Versus Remembering CHAPTER 11 Meaningful Technology CHAPTER 12 Making Your Classroom a Meaningful Mess References Appendix Additional Resources Book Study Questions About the Author

O autorze

Andi McNair is the Digital Innovation Specialist at ESC Region 12 in Waco, TX. Before working at the center, she taught elementary and gifted/talented students at a small rural school in Texas. Andi was in the classroom for a total of 16 years before pursuing her passion to change education by giving educators practical ways to create experiences that will engage and empower this generation of learners.