Teaching in Elementary and Secondary Classrooms: Building a Learning Community - Tapa blanda

For Elementary, Middle, and High-School Methods courses. Acknowledging the increasing diversity of today's student populations, this methods text portrays the classroom as a community of learners, emphasizing responsibility, respect, cooperation, involvement, reflection, and caring. Coverage focuses on the needs of the learner-both pupils and teacher-sharing the author's experiences in democratic classroom environments, and exploring how such environments can be recognized and created. While chapters are linked with one another to present a continuous "flow" of conceptual information, such "hot" topics as motivation, culturally-responsive education, cooperative learning, professional ethics, and accountability are woven in wherever appropriate, so that the chapters may be taught in sequence or not, as the situation warrants.