Joli Barker

The Fearless Classroom (eBook, PDF)

A Practical Guide to Experiential Learning Environments

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Students learn better when they aren't afraid to take risks and make mistakes. In this book, teacher and popular blogger Joli Barker shows you how to make K-8 students fearless in the classroom so they can engage in deeper learning. You'll discover how to abandon the notion of the teacher as the primary source of information, and instead create a classroom environment in which students can explore problems, test theories, and play games through curiosity, imagination, adaptability, and a passion for learning.

Find out how to...

• Create fearless learning environments;
• Engage in fearless planning and lesson design;
• Use fearless grading and assessments;
• Teach fearless gamification;
• Develop fearless parent relations; and
• Get students to ask fearless questions.

Throughout the book, you'll find suggested activities for science, social studies, language arts, and math, as well as tools such as rubrics to assist you on your journey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317622819
• Artikelnr.: 41834916

Autorenporträt

Joli Barker is an elementary teacher in Texas. She is Microsoft in Education Master Educator and Global Forum winner. She was the 2013 Texas Computer Education Association's Classroom Teacher of the Year as the TCEA 2013 Classroom Teacher of the Year. She is also one of The National School Board Association's 2014 "20 to Watch" in education. She has a popular blog, The Fearless Classroom, and also does consulting work in schools.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Meet the Author
From the Author
Preface
Foreword
Chapter One: Defining Fearlessness:
Part One: The Fearless Educator
Part Two: The Fearless Student
Part Three: The Fearless Approach
Part Four: The Fearless Administrator
Chapter Two: Creating Fearless Learning Environments:
ICAP Rotations
ICAP: the Specifics
Imagination
Curiosity
Adaptation
Passion
Chapter Three: Fearless Planning and Lesson Design
Chapter Four: Fearless Grading
Chapter Five: Fearless Assessing of Skills
Chapter Six: Setting Fearless Goals
Chapter Seven: Guide to Activities
Lesson Design Rubrics
Writing
Reflections on Learning
Getting Students to Ask Fearless Questions
Science/Social Studies
Language Arts/Reading
Math
Chapter Eight: Fearless Parent Relations
Chapter Nine: Fearless Gaming in the Classroom
Chapter Ten: Globalizing Your Classroom with Fearless Project-Based
Learning