Developing a Learning Classroom
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Description
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!
Contents
Acknowledgments
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 A. Introductory Student Survey
Appendix B. Advanced Student Survey
Appendix B. Advanced Student Survey
Apendix C. Sample Socratic Questions: Tools to Stimulate Critical Thinking
Apendix C. Sample Socratic Questions: Tools to Stimulate Critical Thinking
Appendix D. Flexible Lesson Design
Appendix D. Flexible Lesson Design
Appendix E. Personal Education Plan
Appendix E. Personal Education Plan
References
References
Index
Index
Description
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!
Contents
Acknowledgments
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 A. Introductory Student Survey
Appendix B. Advanced Student Survey
Appendix B. Advanced Student Survey
Apendix C. Sample Socratic Questions: Tools to Stimulate Critical Thinking
Apendix C. Sample Socratic Questions: Tools to Stimulate Critical Thinking
Appendix D. Flexible Lesson Design
Appendix D. Flexible Lesson Design
Appendix E. Personal Education Plan
Appendix E. Personal Education Plan
References
References
Index
Index
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Developing a Learning Classroom
Moving Beyond Management Through Relationships, Relevance, and Rigor
June 2012 | 152 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781452203881 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781544302997 | $35.00 |
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!
Table Of Contents:
- 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