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Creating and sustaining the constructivist classroom

Discusses how to encourage students to create their own learning experiences and to search for information, process their findings, and translate it into purposeful knowledge for themselves
Print Book, English, ©2005
Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif., ©2005
xi, 153 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
9781412914505, 9781412914512, 1412914507, 1412914515
57373708
The novice teacher: armed and dangerous
Foundations of constructivism: forging a way back to the future
What do the experts say? Listening to the research and professional teachers' organizations
Self assessment: look before, while, and after you leap
Standards and assessment: back to the real basics?
Models: getting your feet wet
Diving in: teachers tell their stories
Technology: untangling the web
Multiculturalism: making the most of the classroom mosaic
Inclusion: rejecting instruction that disables
Epilogue: redemption and bon voyage