Children are born learning machines who want to learn and can organize and manage their own learning. Unfortunately, today children have little choice over what they do in school and how and when they do it. Children prepared in this "other-determined" manner will be poorly equipped to navigate an a
Becoming Self-Directed Learners
β Scribed by James Bellanca
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β¦ Table of Contents
Cover Image
Praise
Title
Copyright
Title 2
Dedication
Forward
Faculty Memoirs
From the Center
Becoming Self-Directed
Purposefully and Self-Consciously Involved
My Great Adventure
The Worst Educational Invention
Student Memoirs
The Year of Thinking Dangerously
The Once and Future Law
What's A Year Worth
The Risk Factor
Finding The Work of the Soul
Professor Chang
Milestones of the Heart
Learning To Live
A New Direction from Self-Direction
Moments of Judgement
Beyond a Music Geek
A Test of Time
You Can Never Take Away the Center from a Draftee
Center Memories Don't Improve With Age
The Music Man
From Small Seeds
The Centerfold Revisited
An Introvert's Evolution
Doing The Right Thing And Feeling Like a Jerk
Ripples
Learning Faster, Thinking Deeper
Akin to Cousins
Right Place, Right Time
Behind The Gates, I Found My Rose Garden
My Miserable Year Under The Skin
The Power of Community
Reflections on Building the Center Planetarium
An Implausible Ending
My Garnett Earrings
Jumping Off The Chair
Getting Good My View
The World For My Classroom
Parts and Other Matters
Lead and Let Lead
Turns Out I'm Smart
My Launching Pad
Ahh, Newton!
Out of Commitment, Curiosity, and Innovation
Epilogue
Appendices
Sample Synthesis
Stuard Detmer and the Center - His Dad's Perspective
A Mother's View
Marching to Their Own Drummer
Glossary
Acknowledgements
About the Editors
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