It's Not Rocket Science!
Language: English
Published by Peter Lang Publishing Inc, US, 2024
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It's Not Rocket Science! Designing Meaningful Learning Experiences in the Elementary Classroom is a hands-on manual that streamlines the curriculum design process by utilizing a four-step approach: deconstructing, reconstructing, lesson planning, and assessing. Grounded in a theoretical framework that all students, regardless of background, are entitled to high quality learning, this step-by-step method allows teachers to create structured, cohesive units of study that impact students' lives, while at the same time providing the opportunity for teachers to thoroughly analyse a content area before creating learning experiences. Included are concrete examples, strategies and templates that help educators create active and engaging lessons for students."In It's Not Rocket Science! Designing Meaningful Learning Experiences in the Elementary Classroom Robert Blake and Lisa Trattner pare down the planning process to five central questions that need to be internalized by teachers, educational leaders, all who engage in the educational process, even including students. Far too much is wasted by the drudgery of requiring educators to pursue endless hours of writing lesson plans, only to find that they don't meet the ever-changing needs of educational situations. Like living a good philosophy of life, embodying these questions nourishes seeds of imagination and improvisation that enrich teaching and learning moment by moment by enhancing the meaning that students experience. Although it may not be as technically sophisticated as rocket science, it may be more important. It collaboratively reconstructs the next (and hopefully better) generations of human beings!"-William H. Schubert. Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction, and Former University Scholar, University of Illinois Chicago; Fellow of The International Academy of Education; recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Curriculum Studies of the American Educational Research Association, former President of the John Dewey Society, the Society of Professors of Education, and the Society for the Study of Curriculum History; author of Love, Justice, and Education, co-editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies (with Ming Fang He), and more than 25 books and 250 articles and chapters.…
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- Title
- It's Not Rocket Science!
- Author
- Robert W. Jr. Blake, Lisa R. Trattner
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing Inc, US
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1636677096
- ISBN 13
- 9781636677095
- Item weight
- 199 grams
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About the Author
Robert W. Blake, Jr, is a Professor in Elementary Education and a former department chair. With a Ph.D. in Curriculum Design from the University Illinois at Chicago, a MAT in Biology from Brown University, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the State University of New York at Albany, Dr Blake has had 35 plus year career in science teaching as well as pre-service and in-service teacher preparation. Notable publications include a analysis of Sizer’s (1984) Horace’s Compromise, in DeVitis, Joseph L. (Ed.) (2016). Popular educational classics: A reader; Becoming a teacher: Using Narrative as reflective practice. A cross-disciplinary approach, edited by Blake, R.W., Jr. and Blake, B. E. (2012); and Inside-Out: Environmental Science in the Classroom and the Field, Grades 3-8, by Blake, R.W., Jr.; Frederick, J.A., Haines, S, and Lee, S. (2010).
Lisa R. Trattner has a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Notre Dame of Maryland University, a MAT In Early Childhood Education from Towson University and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr Trattner’s educational career has spanned over three decades including working as an elementary school teacher, math resource teacher and a science department chair before moving into the collegiate level. As a professor over the past 17 years, she has taught courses in curriculum design, action research, diversity, equity and inclusion, literacy and science education. She has spent much of her career at the college level working directly with pre-service teachers in the field and mentoring new teachers as they transition into their teaching careers. Publications include The Complexities of a Nineteenth Century Icon: Emma Hart Willard, 2021 and "Making Science Come Alive," 2015.
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