New Designs Teaching Learning

ISBN-13: 9780787900205 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 368 str.

Dennis M. Adams; Mary Hamm

Opis

Offers a practical survey of the most important trAnds in education--including critical thinking, cooperative learning, and portfolio assessment--and shows how they can be translated into classroom practice.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Revitalizing Teaching
Part One: New Instructional Developments
2. Critical Thinking
3. Cooperative Learning
4. Electronic Learning
5. Assessment Alternatives
Part Two: Content in the Classroom
6. Integrated Language Arts
7. Mathematical Power
8. Scientific Literacy
9. The Arts
10. Social Responsibility
11. Conclusion: A Bottom–Up Approach to Reform

O autorze

DENNIS ADAMS is a professor in the Department of Childhood Studies and Reading at West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania. MARY HAMM is a professor of Education at San Francisco State University.

Blurb

New Designs for Teaching and Learning offers a practical survey of the most important trAnds in education––including critical thinking, cooperative learning, and portfolio assessment––and shows how they can be translated into classroom practice. The book will help educators design classroom programs that foster teamwork and thinking while getting children actively involved in their own learning.