Best practice: new standards for teaching and learning in America’s schools.
Jun 22nd, 2010 | By Chris | Category: AnnotationsAn Annotation by Laurie Walsh
The chapter is a fabulously detailed and thoughtful discussion of six methods to create a student-centered classroom:
integrative units,
small-group activities,
representing-to-learn,
classroom workshop,
authentic experiences and
reflective assessment.
Each approach is thoroughly discussed, and there are suggested further readings for each. Unlike many of the other authors, Zemelman does acknowledge that we still need whole-class instruction at [...]