Teachers Learning Together

Author : Michele TD Tanaka
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780774829540

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Learning and Teaching Together by Michele TD Tanaka Pdf

Across Canada, teachers unfamiliar with Aboriginal approaches to learning are seeking ways to respectfully weave Aboriginal content into their lessons. This book introduces an indigenist approach to education. It recounts how pre-service teachers immersed in a crosscultural course in British Columbia began to practise Indigenous ways of knowing. Working alongside Indigenous wisdom keepers, they transformed earth fibres into a mural and, in the process, their own ideas about learning and teaching. By revealing how they worked to integrate Indigenous ways of knowing into their practice, this book opens a path for teachers to nurture indigenist crosscultural understanding in their classrooms.

Author : Shirley M. Hord
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807744115

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Learning Together, Leading Together by Shirley M. Hord Pdf

Increasingly the education world is recognizing that the development of learning communities is an effective means for improving schools without increasing the budget or adding new programs. This indispensible volume offers practical advice gathered from 22 schools (elementary, middle, and high schools) that have successfully modeled or are creating professional learning communities.

Author : Deb Curtis,Margie Carter
Publisher : Redleaf Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781605541730

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Learning Together with Young Children by Deb Curtis,Margie Carter Pdf

Many curriculum books treat teaching as something teachers do to or for children. Deb Curtis and Margie Carter, best-selling authors in the early learning field, believe teaching is a collaborative process in which teachers reexamine their own philosophies and practices while facilitating children’s learning. Each chapter in this curriculum framework includes a conceptual overview followed by classroom stories and photographs to illustrate the concepts. The book helps teachers create materials and a classroom culture reflective of their values: Teach through observation, reflection, inquiry, and action, and encourage children to represent their learning in multiple ways, including songs, stories, and drama.

Author : Barbara Rogoff,Carolyn Goodman Turkanis,Leslee Bartlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190289584

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Learning Together by Barbara Rogoff,Carolyn Goodman Turkanis,Leslee Bartlett Pdf

This book advances the theoretical account that Barbara Rogoff presented in her highly acclaimed book, Apprenticeship in Thinking. Here, Rogoff collaborates with two master teachers from an innovative school in Salt Lake City, Utah, to examine how students, parents, and teachers learn by being engaged together in a community of learners. Building on observations by participants in this school, this book reveals how children and adults learn through participation in activities of mutual interest. The insights will speak to all those interested in how people learn collaboratively and how schools can improve.

Author : Donna Ogle
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483366432

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Teachers Learning Together by Donna Ogle Pdf

Illustrates how teachers can participate in reading groups, shared staff study, professional networks, and more to create successful learning communities that translate into academic achievement for students.

Author : Geoffrey Caine,Renate N. Caine
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416612711

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Strengthening and Enriching Your Professional Learning Community by Geoffrey Caine,Renate N. Caine Pdf

How can educators create a collective method of professional development that results in the genuine, sustained teacher learning essential to improving student achievement? That question is at the heart of this comprehensive and practical guide to process learning circles, a unique and powerful way to develop, strengthen, and enrich professional learning communities. Authors Geoffrey and Renate N. Caine have dedicated more than 20 years to researching how people learn naturally. From this foundation, they describe in detail how process learning circles work, and they provide readers with a clear understanding of how powerful and successful this approach to professional learning can be. Along the way, they explore * The three critical elements of great professional development * How to create a field of listening * The logistics and phases of process learning circles * Tips for success as a process leader * The effects of individual differences and group dynamics * Principles for developing a process that works Examples from schools that have implemented process learning circles provide evidence of the method's success, and the authors also include an explanation of 12 underlying brain/mind learning principles, guidelines for using online tools, and broader suggestions for how to move from teaching for memorization to teaching for understanding. Written with both teachers and administrators in mind, Strengthening and Enriching Your Professional Learning Community: The Art of Learning Together is an essential guide to professional learning and development that works.

Author : Eileen Piggot-Irvine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Action research in education
ISBN : 1877398519

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Action Research in Practice by Eileen Piggot-Irvine Pdf

Action research places a powerful tool for school improvement in the hands of teachers. By highlighting the outcomes that are possible and presenting clear steps in the research process, this book is one to encourage anyone who is seeking to implement evidence-based school improvement. Eileen Piggot-Irvine uses her Problem Resolving Action Research (PRAR) model to demonstrate the effectiveness of this structured but flexible approach to action research. Its strength is a clear sequence of stages or cycles which give the structure. Within this, flexibility is also possible if the potential for ""spin-offs"" occurs from the findings. The theory section describes the features which characterise the PRAR model. It is iterative, experiential, context specific and developmental. It emphasises change and transformation along with evidence- or data-based decision making; encourages reflection and narrows the theory/practice gap. The teacher-written case studies report on action research as a process which incorporates these features. These real-life studies are valuable not only for the way in which they illustrate action research methodology but also for their content, which includes little-researched areas such as listening skills; supporting teacher aides; facilitating dialogue; and working with children with severe learning disorders. The studies indicate the adaptability of the approach across primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. A 'must' for all schools undertaking their own research.

Author : Nancy Falchikov
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134672950

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Learning Together by Nancy Falchikov Pdf

The number of students in higher education has expanded dramatically in recent years, but funding has not kept pace with this growth. The result is less contact time for lecturers and their students, and corresponding worries about how the quality of teaching and learning can be improved. Peer tutoring is one method which is growing in popularity, and has already proved successful in a number of countries. This book provides an introduction to the methods and practice of peer tutoring focusing on how to set up schemes and how to cope with common problems. It discusses the theory behind this form of learning and the beneficial effects associated with it. Summaries are included at the end of each chapter.

Author : Bobbi Fisher
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015033966584

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Thinking and Learning Together by Bobbi Fisher Pdf

Bobbi Fisher offers suggestions, not prescriptions, and encourages teachers to use their own voices and styles, based on sound theory, to create their own thinking and learning classrooms.

Author : Kathy Gnagey Short
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X004208911

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Learning Together Through Inquiry by Kathy Gnagey Short Pdf

Describes a collaborative project in which six K-5 teachers and their students built a curriculum based on student inquiry, studying such topics as Christopher Columbus, personal and family history, slavery, human rights, space, and nature.

Author : Theodora Papatheodorou,JANET R Moyles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134031269

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Learning Together in the Early Years by Theodora Papatheodorou,JANET R Moyles Pdf

This book brings together contributions from international experts on early years education to explore and debate relational pedagogy across different countries and in the context of a broad international field.

Author : Rena M. Palloff,Keith Pratt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470876015

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Collaborating Online by Rena M. Palloff,Keith Pratt Pdf

Collaborating Online provides practical guidance for faculty seeking to help their students work together in creative ways, move out of the box of traditional papers and projects, and deepen the learning experience through their work with one another. Authors Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt draw on their extensive knowledge and experience to show how collaboration brings students together to support the learning of each member of the group while promoting creativity and critical thinking. Collaborating Online is the second title in the Jossey-Bass Guides to Online Teaching and Learning. This series helps higher education professionals improve the practice of online teaching and learning by providing concise, practical resources focused on particular areas or issues they might confront in this new learning environment.

Author : Wolff-Michael Roth,Kenneth George Tobin
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 082047911X

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Teaching Together, Learning Together by Wolff-Michael Roth,Kenneth George Tobin Pdf

Coteaching and cogenerative dialoguing are ways of learning to teach that truly bridge the gap between theory and praxis, as new teachers learn to teach alongside peers and more experienced teachers. These practices are also means of overcoming teacher isolation and burnout. Through cogenerative dialogue sessions, new and experienced teachers, university supervisors, researchers, and administrators are able to create local theory for the purpose of improving teaching and learning. In this book, contributors from four countries report on how coteaching and cogenerative dialoguing worked in their situation.

Author : Learning Together
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996498575

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Learning Together Strengths Foundation Teacher Handbook by Learning Together Pdf

Author : Anthony R. Kaye
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642776847

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Collaborative Learning Through Computer Conferencing by Anthony R. Kaye Pdf

The idea for the Workshop on which this book is based arose from discussions which we had when we both attended an earlier - and more broadly based - NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, directed by Claire O'Malley in Maratea, Italy, in 1989. We both felt that it would be interesting to organise a second Workshop in this area, but specifically concerned with the use of computers and networking (telematics) as communication tools for collaborative learning outside the formal school setting. We were particularly interested in examining the ways in which computer conferencing can be used for collaboration and group learning in the contexts of distance education, adult learning, professional training, and organisational networking. And we wanted to ensure that we included, in the scope of the Workshop, situations in which learning is a primary, explicit goal (e.g. an online training programme) as well as situations where learning occurs as a secondary, even incidental, outcome of a collaborative activity whose explicit purpose might be different (e.g. the activities of networked product teams or task groups). Another goal was to try to bring together for a few days people with three different perspectives on the use of computer conferencing: users, researchers, and software designers. We hoped that, if we could assemble a group of people from these three different constituencies, we might, collectively, be able to make a small contribution to real progress in the field.