Active Learning: Increasing Flow in the Classroom - Softcover

Hollingsworth, Pat; Lewis, Gina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904424597 ISBN 13: 9781904424598

Publisher: Crown House Publishing Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

A key to real learning and understanding is student engagement and enjoyment. In Active Learning experienced teachers share plans for complete lessons that motivate students through active involvement in the process of learning. Ancient Greece comes alive when students dramatise historical events. Architectural styles translated into movement, sound, and body shapes are easy to remember. Student-created board games make reviewing maths facts fun. This book will assist teacher planning, improve lesson quality, and illuminate your approach to teaching. Measurable objectives, step-by-step procedures, optional teacher scripts, student handouts, evaluation tools, and enrichment activities provide structure for lessons to use in maths, languages, social studies and art. Students are actively learning when they are intensely engaged, mentally or physically. Active learning is vigorous, lively, energetic, intense, strong, and effective. Active learning is involved learning: it takes place when the learners are excited, involved, mentally alert, and caught up in the experience.

About this title

About the Authors

Gina Lewis is the third grade teacher at University School at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. She is a board member of the Oklahoma Association for Gifted and Creative Teachers and a coauthor of the SAILS curriculum kit.

Pat Hollingsworth is the director of University School at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. In addition to her duties as director, she teaches art, kindergarten, and university graduate classes. She is a board member of the National Association for Gifted Children; coauthor of Smart Art and Kinetic Kaleidoscope; and editor, illustrator, and coauthor of the SAILS (Students Active Interdisciplinary Learning Series) curriculum kit.

From the Inside Flap

In Active Learning: Increasing Flow in the Classroom experienced teachers share their most practical and engrossing ways to create optimal learning experiences for students. Knowing that the key to real learning and understanding is student engagement and enjoyment, the authors provide plans for complete lessons that motivate students through active involvement in the process of learning. Ancient Greece comes alive when students dramatize historical events. Architectural styles translated into movement, sound, and body shapes are easy to remember. Student-created board games make reviewing math facts fun.This book will assist teacher planning, improve lesson quality, and illuminate your approach to teaching. Measurable objectives, step-by-step procedures, optional teacher scripts, student handouts, evaluation tools, and enrichment activities provide structure for lessons to use in math, language arts, science, social studies, and the fine arts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crown House Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904424597
• ISBN 13: 9781904424598
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208