Search results for ""Author Jennifer Harper""
Pembroke Publishing Ltd Classroom Routines for Real Learning: Student-Centered Activities that Empower and Engage
Classroom routines are the well-oiled machines that can make a classroom function. But routines can also provide the groundwork for a learning environment that nourishes student-driven learning. From routines to start the school day to those that build classroom community, routines can help maximize learning by providing stability, consistency, and time management skills—for teachers and students. Well-structured routines can increase active student engagement, promote individual accountability, and establish a positive classroom climate.
£30.95
Pembroke Publishing Ltd Literacy Smarts: Simple Classroom Strategies for Using Interactive Whiteboards to Engage Students
Literacy Smarts introduces simple activities and tasks that use interactive whiteboard technology to bring a new vitality to classroom lessons. Based on extensive classroom experience, the authors argue that interactive whiteboards can create numerous possibilities for teaching and learning and describe how interactive whiteboards can lead us into the future of learning—interpreting, managing, exploring, and expanding our students' thinking. Literacy Smarts advocates for student-centered learning and demands that students think, interact, and engage with a wide variety of texts across all the content areas.
£27.86
Pembroke Publishing Ltd Student-Driven Learning: Small, Medium, and Big Steps to Engage and Empower Students
Teachers know that their students love to explore and learn. But, how do we make this possible with thirty students, with different needs, learning styles, and backgrounds, all in one small room with one teacher in the class? Designed to help teachers reflect on their current teaching practice, Student-Driven Learning suggests small shifts, medium-sized ideas, and big changes that can be made to encourage student engagement through flexible, student-centered learning. Experiential earning that is student-driven fosters autonomy and shifts the focus from the knowledge and influence of the teacher to the experiences of the students. Student-Driven Learning helps teachers introduce opportunities for students to learn their own way, to take initiative, and to experience, wonder, and create.
£27.86