Teaching in Themes - An Approach to Schoolwide Learning, Creating Community,

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Meier has spent 50 years working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer, and advocate, and received a MacArthur "genius" Award for her work in New York City's East Harlem. Matthew Knoester is an assistant professor of education at the University of Evansville. Katherine Clunis D'Andrea is a teacher at the Mission Hill School in Boston and an adjunct professor of education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Klappentext This title will help schools incorporate a whole-school! theme-based curriculum that engages students. The authors provide descriptions of four thematic units: What's Baking in Kathy's Classroom?! The Impact of Nature and Play! The Struggle for Justice! and Astronomical Inquiries. Readers will see how teachers and students design "emergent inquiries” within the themes and create artwork! music! presentations! and a variety of hands-on learning experiences.

Product details

• Authors: A, Deborah (EDT)/ Knoester Meier
• Assisted by: Katherine Clunis D'Andrea (Editor), Kathy D'Andrea (Editor), Matthew Knoester (Editor), Deborah Meier (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780807757000
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5700-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Practitioner Inquiry; Practitioner Inquiry Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system