Barbara L McCombs, Jo Sue Whisler

Gebundenes Buch

The Learner-Centered Classroom and School

Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation and Achievement

Beschreibung

"What a learned-centered perspective and model helps educators understand is that individual learners, young and old, students and teachers-like all human beings-bring with them a complex array of unique viewpoints, needs, capacities, and strengths. At the same time, they share certain fundamental qualities. The inherent need to grow, live, and develop in a positive direction, for example, is common to all learners. What best supports these inherent capacities and distinctive characteristics? To find out, we asked students and educators what they thought produced the highest levels of learning in not only academic areas but also personal, social, and vocational realms."-from the Preface The Learner-Centered Classroom and School shows educators and administrators how they can create classrooms and schools that foster student motivation, learning, and achievement. The learner-centered approach provides a dual focus on both learner and learning. It focuses on learners by respecting them, trusting them to be responsible for their own learning, and designing practices that are sensitive to individual needs, abilities, and interests. It focuses on learning by designing practices that help students meet high academic standards in challenging, personally relevant, and important content areas. The book is filled with useful examples and practical suggestions for implementing learner-centered concepts in any school or classroom. It will help educators examine beliefs and assumptions related to learner-centered practices and make changes that enhance student motivation and achievement.

Autor

THE AUTHORS Barbara L. McCombs is senior director for the human development and motivation group at the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) located in Aurora, Colorado. Jo Sue Whisler is a senior associate at McREL.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780787908362
• ISBN-10: 0787908363
• Artikelnr.: 21617707

Rezensionen

"In an era when the idea of learner-centered teaching is widelyadvocated but seldom practiced, there is finally a book uncommonlyfaithful to this approach. Barbara McCombs and Jo Sue Whislercarefully blend years of research and practice to give teacherspractical guidance and to spur the educational establishment tourgently needed reform." (Raymond J. Wlodkowski, Ph.D., MotivationExpert and author of Eager to Learn and Diversity andMotivation)

"McCombs and Whisler extract powerful, practical lessons fromcontemporary theories of learner-centered classrooms. As imminentlyreadable and insightful contribution to the field of education."(Martin V. Covington, professor of psychology, University ofCalifornia Berkeley and author of Making

the Grade and OvercomingStudent Failure)

"The Learner-Centered Classroom and School gives us a vision of atruly powerful form of school reform--focusing the instructionalprocess on the learner. McCombs and Whisler not only provide acomprehensive review of the research and theory on learning andmotivation, but they spell out in practical detail how teachers canutilize this information to implement a learner-centered approach.This book has the potential of drastically altering the promise andpractice of education." (Robert J. Marzano, deputy executivedirector for training and development, Mid-continent RegionalEducational Laboratory, Aurora, Co and author of Dimensions ofLearning and A Comprehensive Guide to Designing Standard' BasedDistricts, Schools and Classrooms)

"An especially useful tool to anyone attempting to establish alearner-centered environment by increasing student motivation andachievement." (Connie H. Yarema, assistant professor ofmathematics, Northeast Louisiana University)