New Designs for Teaching and Learning: Promoting Active Learning in Tomorrow's Schools (Jossey-Bass Education) - Hardcover

Adams, Dennis; Hamm, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787900206 ISBN 13: 9780787900205

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1994

Synopsis

Offers a practical survey of the most important trAnds in education--including critical thinking, cooperative learning, and portfolio assessment--and shows how they can be translated into classroom practice.

About this title

About the Author

DENNIS ADAMS is a professor in the Department of Childhood Studies and Reading at West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania. MARY HAMM is a professor of Education at San Francisco State University.

From the Back Cover

New Designs for Teaching and Learning offers a practical survey of the most important trAnds in education--including critical thinking, cooperative learning, and portfolio assessment--and shows how they can be translated into classroom practice. The book will help educators design classroom programs that foster teamwork and thinking while getting children actively involved in their own learning.

From the Inside Flap

New Designs for Teaching and Learning offers a practical survey of the most important trAnds in education--including critical thinking, cooperative learning, and portfolio assessment--and shows how they can be translated into classroom practice. The book will help educators design classroom programs that foster teamwork and thinking while getting children actively involved in their own learning.Providing specific classroom activities at the And of each chapter, Dennis Adams and Mary Hamm show how these new instructional developments can be specifically applied to the content areas. They suggest concepts and techniques that can be used in math, science, reading and writing, and the arts. They examine how electronic media such as television, computers, and interactive telecommunication are transforming learning. And they discuss the topic of social responsibility and citizenship education.Successful teaching goes beyond the mere transmission of knowledge. By presenting a more dynamic view of teaching and learning, the authors open a world of possibilities for today's teachers and students.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787900206
• ISBN 13: 9780787900205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 367