Developing a Learning Classroom

Nic Cooper - Baker College, USA
Betty K. Garner - Aesthetic of Lifelong Learning

Courses:
Classroom Management | Classroom Management | Instructional Design | Student Teaching/Field Experience

June 2012 | 152 pages | Corwin

Discover powerful ways to connect with your students!

All too often, managing a classroom means gaining control, dictating guidelines, and implementing rules. Designed for any teacher struggling with student behavior, motivation, and engagement, Developing a Learning Classroom explores how to create a thriving, learning-centered classroom through three critical concepts?relationships, relevance, and rigor. Discover how you can:

Develop an interactive learning mindset
Create a safe environment where students question, explore, and discover
Uncover a student's learning profile as well as your own teaching style
Use student input to create classroom practices and procedures
Apply brain-based instructional strategies to keep students engaged
Use student surveys and a personal education plan to improve learning environments

Filled with classroom stories, starter worksheets, and action steps, this book reveals the secrets to transforming an ordinary classroom into an extraordinary learning community!

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Acknowledgments

About the Authors

1. What Is a Learning Classroom? How to Develop Relationships, Relevance, and Rigor

2. Who Am I Who Teaches? How Knowing Oneself Impacts Practice

3. Who Are the Students We Teach? How Knowing Our Students Affects Teaching and Learning

4. How Do We Reach Our Students? How Procedures and Clear Expectations Develop a Learning Classroom

5. How Do We Teach Our Students? How to Engage Students in Their Own Learning With Rigor and Relevance

6. How Do We Know If Our Students Are Learning? How to Assess and Motivate Students

7. How Do We Stay in the Game? How to Cultivate Learning Communities for Continual Professional Growth

Appendix A. Introductory Student Survey

Appendix B. Advanced Student Survey

Apendix C. Sample Socratic Questions: Tools to Stimulate Critical Thinking

Appendix D. Flexible Lesson Design

Appendix E. Personal Education Plan

References

Index

“When students feel safe and respected, the time spent managing a classroom is replaced with time spent teaching. This book helps teachers refocus.”

Leslie Standerfer, Principal

Estrella Foothills High School, Goodyear, AZ

“Finally, a book has given us information on a topic that takes years to discover by yourself in the classroom!”

Julie Duford, Fifth-Grade Teacher

Polson Middle School, MT

"Implementing the wide variety of elements provided in this book will provide the learning environment teachers dream of and students thrive in."

Alexis Ludewig, Adjunct Instructor

Fox Valley Technical College, Appleton, WI

"This book explores the basics of creating a learning-centered classroom founded on relationships, relevance and rigor. From creating a safe environment for questions and interactions to pairing student learning profiles with teacher approaches, this is packed with brain-based strategies considering how we teach students and who these students are."

Midwest Book Review, October 2012

Key features

This book will include

Worksheets designed to help teachers develop procedures and approaches to create a quality-learning environment.
A template for teachers to create a classroom development plan of their own.
Flow charts, classroom diagrams, case studies will augment and clarify the content.