Intentional Teaching

The Let Me Learn® Classroom in Action
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Bonnie U. Dawkins - Consultant
Robert B. Kottkamp - Hofstra University, USA
Christine A. Johnston - Department of Educational Leadership, Rowan University
Intentional Teaching
June 2010 | 184 pages | Corwin
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Description

"Teachers need to begin viewing themselves as facilitators for learning. This book addresses this need."
—Patti Grammens, Teacher
South Forsyth Middle School, Cumming, GA

Follow a teacher's year-long journey to creating a student-centered classroom!

When learners understand how to use their unique learning processes with intention, they open a whole new world of learning. This inspiring book focuses on one teacher's implementation of the Let Me Learn® system, a cutting-edge teaching method that transforms learning differences into strengths.

Over the course of a year, teacher Bonnie Dawkins builds a classroom community in which children understand themselves as learners, are empowered to ask for help, and work together to achieve. Relevant to teachers of all grade levels, this resource offers:

  • A widely researched approach that gives students metacognitive skills for life
  • Five essential tools of the Let Me Learn Advanced Learning system
  • Vignettes in the voices of students as they discover their own and others' ways of learning
  • An instructional toolbox that empowers students to excel where learning styles theory and teaching to preferences have fallen short

Through a teacher's personal story, you can explore a student-centered approach that makes a measureable difference in the classroom for both students and teachers, including greater achievement and more productive relationships!

Contents

List of Figures

List of Figures

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction

  • 1. What is the Let Me Learn Advanced Learning System?
  • The Theoretical Basis for the Let Me Learn Process
  • The First Tool: The Learning Connections Inventory
  • The Second Tool: The Personal Learning Profile
  • The Third Tool: The Word Wall
  • The Fourth Tool That FITs the Learner to the Task
  • The Fifth Tool That Pulls It all Together: The Strategy Card
  • The Overall Effect of Using LML Tools and Skills: Interntional Learning and Intentional Teaching
  • The Power of Let Me Learn's Integrated System
  • 2. Meet Bonnie: Getting to Professional Change Through an Advanced Learning System
  • The Catalyst for Seeing the Possibility of Change
  • An Inquisitive Student of Learning: A Discerning Practical Professional
  • Why the Let Me Learn Process? A Conscious Choice
  • Bonnie's Learning Profile
  • Bonnie's Advice to Teachers Who Want to Implement LML
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 3. September/October: Understanding the Self as Learner
  • Vignette 1: "Where Are All the Good Kids?"
  • Vignette 2: Eleanor's Search for the One Right Answer
  • Bonnie's Reflections
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on Communication (Bob's Perspective)
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 4. November: Accepting Others as Learners
  • Vignette: Responses to The Giver
  • Bonnie's Reflections on Affect, Learning, and Community
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML and Affect (Bob's Perspective)
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 5. December: Sustaining the LML Classroom
  • Vignette: Thomas's Nightclub Act
  • Bonnie's Reflection on Thomas's Night Club Act
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on Student Thinking (Bob's Perspective)
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 6. January: Becoming Intentional: The Turning Point
  • Vignette: Dina and the Tough Question
  • Bonnie's Reflection on Dina's Tough Question
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on Student Engagement (Bob's Perspective)
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 7. February: Learning to Navigate the Challenges of Group Work
  • Vignette: Anything but the Goat
  • Bonnie's Reflection on Russell and the Group
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on Pattern Conflicts (Bob's Perspective)
  • LML?s Effects on Resolving Pattern Conflict and Building Teams (Bob's Perspective)
  • 8. March: The Tipping Point
  • Vignette: An Internal Crisis
  • My Precision Pattern Intertwines With Accountability and Outcomes
  • Bonnie's Reflection on the Pain of Change
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML and Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • Reflective Practice Lies at the Heart of the LML Process (Bob's Perspective)
  • 9. April: Evidence of a Transformed Classroom Culture
  • Students Help Each Other Become and Remain More Mindful
  • Vignette: Kippy Gets It Because His Peers Get It!
  • Bonnie's Reflection
  • Implementation Activitiy: Simulating FIT--Forging, Intensifying, or Tethering
  • LML and Respect (Bob's Perspective)
  • LML?s Effect on Classroom Culture (Bob's Perspective)
  • 10. May: So Much to Do?So Little Time! Panic or Picnic
  • Vignette: A Timeless Moment
  • Bonnie's Reflection
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on the Teacher (Bob's Perspective)
  • 11. June: Note to Self--I Am a Viable Learner
  • Students' Advice to Their Future Selves
  • Bonnie's Reflection
  • What Is It About LML That Enables Change to Succeed? (Bob's Perspective)
  • 12. Epilogue: Honoring Intentional Teaching
  • Laurie's Gift
  • Bonnie's Reflection

Appendix: Additional Information About the Let Me Learn Process

Appendix: Additional Information About the Let Me Learn Process

Glossary of Let Me Learn Terms

Glossary of Let Me Learn Terms

References

References

Index

Index

Description

"Teachers need to begin viewing themselves as facilitators for learning. This book addresses this need."
—Patti Grammens, Teacher
South Forsyth Middle School, Cumming, GA

Follow a teacher's year-long journey to creating a student-centered classroom!

When learners understand how to use their unique learning processes with intention, they open a whole new world of learning. This inspiring book focuses on one teacher's implementation of the Let Me Learn® system, a cutting-edge teaching method that transforms learning differences into strengths.

Over the course of a year, teacher Bonnie Dawkins builds a classroom community in which children understand themselves as learners, are empowered to ask for help, and work together to achieve. Relevant to teachers of all grade levels, this resource offers:

  • A widely researched approach that gives students metacognitive skills for life
  • Five essential tools of the Let Me Learn Advanced Learning system
  • Vignettes in the voices of students as they discover their own and others' ways of learning
  • An instructional toolbox that empowers students to excel where learning styles theory and teaching to preferences have fallen short

Through a teacher's personal story, you can explore a student-centered approach that makes a measureable difference in the classroom for both students and teachers, including greater achievement and more productive relationships!

Contents

List of Figures

List of Figures

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction

  • 1. What is the Let Me Learn Advanced Learning System?
  • The Theoretical Basis for the Let Me Learn Process
  • The First Tool: The Learning Connections Inventory
  • The Second Tool: The Personal Learning Profile
  • The Third Tool: The Word Wall
  • The Fourth Tool That FITs the Learner to the Task
  • The Fifth Tool That Pulls It all Together: The Strategy Card
  • The Overall Effect of Using LML Tools and Skills: Interntional Learning and Intentional Teaching
  • The Power of Let Me Learn's Integrated System
  • 2. Meet Bonnie: Getting to Professional Change Through an Advanced Learning System
  • The Catalyst for Seeing the Possibility of Change
  • An Inquisitive Student of Learning: A Discerning Practical Professional
  • Why the Let Me Learn Process? A Conscious Choice
  • Bonnie's Learning Profile
  • Bonnie's Advice to Teachers Who Want to Implement LML
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 3. September/October: Understanding the Self as Learner
  • Vignette 1: "Where Are All the Good Kids?"
  • Vignette 2: Eleanor's Search for the One Right Answer
  • Bonnie's Reflections
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on Communication (Bob's Perspective)
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 4. November: Accepting Others as Learners
  • Vignette: Responses to The Giver
  • Bonnie's Reflections on Affect, Learning, and Community
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML and Affect (Bob's Perspective)
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 5. December: Sustaining the LML Classroom
  • Vignette: Thomas's Nightclub Act
  • Bonnie's Reflection on Thomas's Night Club Act
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on Student Thinking (Bob's Perspective)
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 6. January: Becoming Intentional: The Turning Point
  • Vignette: Dina and the Tough Question
  • Bonnie's Reflection on Dina's Tough Question
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on Student Engagement (Bob's Perspective)
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 7. February: Learning to Navigate the Challenges of Group Work
  • Vignette: Anything but the Goat
  • Bonnie's Reflection on Russell and the Group
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on Pattern Conflicts (Bob's Perspective)
  • LML?s Effects on Resolving Pattern Conflict and Building Teams (Bob's Perspective)
  • 8. March: The Tipping Point
  • Vignette: An Internal Crisis
  • My Precision Pattern Intertwines With Accountability and Outcomes
  • Bonnie's Reflection on the Pain of Change
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML and Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • Reflective Practice Lies at the Heart of the LML Process (Bob's Perspective)
  • 9. April: Evidence of a Transformed Classroom Culture
  • Students Help Each Other Become and Remain More Mindful
  • Vignette: Kippy Gets It Because His Peers Get It!
  • Bonnie's Reflection
  • Implementation Activitiy: Simulating FIT--Forging, Intensifying, or Tethering
  • LML and Respect (Bob's Perspective)
  • LML?s Effect on Classroom Culture (Bob's Perspective)
  • 10. May: So Much to Do?So Little Time! Panic or Picnic
  • Vignette: A Timeless Moment
  • Bonnie's Reflection
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on the Teacher (Bob's Perspective)
  • 11. June: Note to Self--I Am a Viable Learner
  • Students' Advice to Their Future Selves
  • Bonnie's Reflection
  • What Is It About LML That Enables Change to Succeed? (Bob's Perspective)
  • 12. Epilogue: Honoring Intentional Teaching
  • Laurie's Gift
  • Bonnie's Reflection

Appendix: Additional Information About the Let Me Learn Process

Appendix: Additional Information About the Let Me Learn Process

Glossary of Let Me Learn Terms

Glossary of Let Me Learn Terms

References

References

Index

Index

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Intentional Teaching

The Let Me Learn® Classroom in Action

Bonnie U. Dawkins , Robert B. Kottkamp , Christine A. Johnston
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"Teachers need to begin viewing themselves as facilitators for learning. This book addresses this need."
—Patti Grammens, Teacher
South Forsyth Middle School, Cumming, GA

Follow a teacher's year-long journey to creating a student-centered classroom!

When learners understand how to use their unique learning processes with intention, they open a whole new world of learning. This inspiring book focuses on one teacher's implementation of the Let Me Learn® system, a cutting-edge teaching method that transforms learning differences into strengths.

Over the course of a year, teacher Bonnie Dawkins builds a classroom community in which children understand themselves as learners, are empowered to ask for help, and work together to achieve. Relevant to teachers of all grade levels, this resource offers:

  • A widely researched approach that gives students metacognitive skills for life
  • Five essential tools of the Let Me Learn Advanced Learning system
  • Vignettes in the voices of students as they discover their own and others' ways of learning
  • An instructional toolbox that empowers students to excel where learning styles theory and teaching to preferences have fallen short

Through a teacher's personal story, you can explore a student-centered approach that makes a measureable difference in the classroom for both students and teachers, including greater achievement and more productive relationships!


Table Of Contents:

  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • 1. What is the Let Me Learn Advanced Learning System?
  • The Theoretical Basis for the Let Me Learn Process
  • The First Tool: The Learning Connections Inventory
  • The Second Tool: The Personal Learning Profile
  • The Third Tool: The Word Wall
  • The Fourth Tool That FITs the Learner to the Task
  • The Fifth Tool That Pulls It all Together: The Strategy Card
  • The Overall Effect of Using LML Tools and Skills: Interntional Learning and Intentional Teaching
  • The Power of Let Me Learn's Integrated System
  • 2. Meet Bonnie: Getting to Professional Change Through an Advanced Learning System
  • The Catalyst for Seeing the Possibility of Change
  • An Inquisitive Student of Learning: A Discerning Practical Professional
  • Why the Let Me Learn Process? A Conscious Choice
  • Bonnie's Learning Profile
  • Bonnie's Advice to Teachers Who Want to Implement LML
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 3. September/October: Understanding the Self as Learner
  • Vignette 1: "Where Are All the Good Kids?"
  • Vignette 2: Eleanor's Search for the One Right Answer
  • Bonnie's Reflections
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on Communication (Bob's Perspective)
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 4. November: Accepting Others as Learners
  • Vignette: Responses to The Giver
  • Bonnie's Reflections on Affect, Learning, and Community
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML and Affect (Bob's Perspective)
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 5. December: Sustaining the LML Classroom
  • Vignette: Thomas's Nightclub Act
  • Bonnie's Reflection on Thomas's Night Club Act
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on Student Thinking (Bob's Perspective)
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 6. January: Becoming Intentional: The Turning Point
  • Vignette: Dina and the Tough Question
  • Bonnie's Reflection on Dina's Tough Question
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on Student Engagement (Bob's Perspective)
  • Bonnie's Experience of Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • 7. February: Learning to Navigate the Challenges of Group Work
  • Vignette: Anything but the Goat
  • Bonnie's Reflection on Russell and the Group
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on Pattern Conflicts (Bob's Perspective)
  • LML?s Effects on Resolving Pattern Conflict and Building Teams (Bob's Perspective)
  • 8. March: The Tipping Point
  • Vignette: An Internal Crisis
  • My Precision Pattern Intertwines With Accountability and Outcomes
  • Bonnie's Reflection on the Pain of Change
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML and Change (Bob's Perspective)
  • Reflective Practice Lies at the Heart of the LML Process (Bob's Perspective)
  • 9. April: Evidence of a Transformed Classroom Culture
  • Students Help Each Other Become and Remain More Mindful
  • Vignette: Kippy Gets It Because His Peers Get It!
  • Bonnie's Reflection
  • Implementation Activitiy: Simulating FIT--Forging, Intensifying, or Tethering
  • LML and Respect (Bob's Perspective)
  • LML?s Effect on Classroom Culture (Bob's Perspective)
  • 10. May: So Much to Do?So Little Time! Panic or Picnic
  • Vignette: A Timeless Moment
  • Bonnie's Reflection
  • Implementation Activities
  • LML's Effect on the Teacher (Bob's Perspective)
  • 11. June: Note to Self--I Am a Viable Learner
  • Students' Advice to Their Future Selves
  • Bonnie's Reflection
  • What Is It About LML That Enables Change to Succeed? (Bob's Perspective)
  • 12. Epilogue: Honoring Intentional Teaching
  • Laurie's Gift
  • Bonnie's Reflection
  • Appendix: Additional Information About the Let Me Learn Process
  • Glossary of Let Me Learn Terms
  • References
  • Index

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