Creating A Learner-centred Primary Classroom: Learner-centred Strategic Teaching (A David Fulton Book)

✍ Scribed by Kath Murdoch, Jeni Wilson

• Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group)
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 129
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom is an essential resource to improve teaching practice, examining the key elements that contribute to a learner-centred classroom and offering strategies to encourage children to take a shared role in their learning. Including case studies describing teachers’ methods for linking theory to practice, this user-friendly, photocopiable resource demonstrates how to: construct a learning community encourage collaborative learning share strategies for engaging individual learners provide a scaffold for strategic thinking in the classroom link assessment procedures to learning showcase the practice and outcomes of purposeful curriculum planning. Any teacher who wants to practically tailor their teaching practice to meet the needs of individual learners will find this an invaluable resource.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
1 If you build it they will learn: Constructing a learning community......Page 16
2 All together now: Helping students to work collaboratively......Page 33
3 One size does not fit all: Engaging individual learners......Page 44
4 Making the world of difference: Establishing wider community connections......Page 59
5 Pressing the pause button: Teaching thinking strategically......Page 73
6 The message that matters: Linking assessment to learning......Page 93
7 Planning with purpose: Pathways for curriculum planning......Page 110
Bibliography......Page 122
Further reading......Page 123
Index......Page 125