Teaching to Empower: Taking Action to Foster Student Agency, Self-Confidence, and Collaboration - Softcover

Debbie Zacarian (author)|Michael Silverstone (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416628541 ISBN 13: 9781416628545

Publisher: ASCD, 2020

Synopsis

We want students to master academic standards, and we want them to be confident, adaptive, and socially responsible. Above all, we want them to find meaning and satisfaction in their lives. Achieving these goals requires a concerted focus on the social-emotional skills that empower students in and beyond the classroom.

In Teaching to Empower, Debbie Zacarian and Michael Silverstone explore what an empowered student looks like in our increasingly diverse contemporary schools and prompt educators to examine their own relationship to empowerment. The book's evidence-based strategies and authentic examples show you how to foster an inclusive culture of agency, self-confidence, and collaboration that will give each of your students―regardless of race, culture, language, socioeconomic status, abilities, sexuality, or gender―the opportunity, responsibility, and tools to become an active learner, thoughtful community member, and engaged global citizen. Whether you're a preservice teacher, a classroom novice, or a veteran, you'll find the practical guidance you'll need to:

• Create inclusive and empowering physical learning spaces.
• Set up self-directed learning and promote positive interdependence.
• Promote student self-reflection.
• Teach the skills of collaboration.
• Foster the self-advocacy that fuels deeper, more autonomous learning.
• Partner more effectively with families and the community to support student empowerment.

About this title

About the Author

Debbie Zacarian, EdD, is known for her expertise in strengths-based leadership, instructional practices, and partnerships with culturally and linguistically diverse student and family populations. She has more than three decades of combined experience as a district administrator, university faculty member, and educational service leader. The founder of Zacarian & Associates, she provides sustained policy and practice supports for educators that help them work more successfully with diverse student and family populations.

Michael Silverstone is a veteran primary grades teacher and education writer. After 15 years as a 2nd grade teacher, his interest in intrinsic motivation, mindfulness, and creative expression led him to become a Montessori educator. In 2017, he was selected as an American Montessori Society Emerging Leaders Fellow. Currently, Silverstone is a staff member of the Montessori Elementary Education Teacher Training Collaborative as well as a lower elementary (ages 6-9) teacher in the Boston area.

Edition details

• Publisher: ASCD
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416628541
• ISBN 13: 9781416628545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178