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Literacy Projects for Student-Centered Classrooms
Tips and Lessons to Engage Students
- Karrell Hickman - Natomas USD
Other Titles in:
Literacy, K-12 | Student Engagement & Motivation | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles
Literacy, K-12 | Student Engagement & Motivation | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles
June 2007 | 168 pages | Corwin
Effective student-centered learning occurs when the traditional teacher-student practice of 'I lecture, you retain and repeat' is discarded, and when the students assume responsibility for their own process of discovery while the teacher assumes the role of facilitatorach. In this book, Karrell Hickman isolates behaviors teachers and students can practice in order to move beyond their traditional roles in the classroom to promote a more engaged and energized learning environment. She presents four fully developed long-term research projects that are designed to encourage student-centered learning while meeting language arts standards on multiple levels.
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Introduction
1. Working Toward a Student Centered Classroom
2. How to Create a Project
3. Standards and High-Stakes Testing
4. Adopt-a-Poet
5. Project Monster
6. “I Was Friends With . . . .”
7. Tracing the Protest Movement in America Through Song: A Scavenger Hunt
Appendix
Resources
References
Index
"Provides many novel ideas for teachers to use, with practical applications."
Cheyenne Central High School, WY
"Real, rather than theoretical. Provides an extremely clear format for all grade levels and presents a concise, workable classroom format that teaches not only intensive reading and writing, but also how students can learn to learn. The clear examples are inspiring, and the approach can immediately be put to use."
Camden Hills Regional High School, Rockport, ME
"From project management and student evaluation processes to resource lists for each project, teachers learn how to engage and promote new strategies for literacy."
Midwest Book Review
