TY - BOOK TI - Teaching the way students learn: practical applications for today's classrooms SN - 9781610480567 AV - LB1025.3 U1 - 371.102 PY - 2012/// PB - The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group KW - Effective teaching KW - Learning KW - Educational innovations KW - Educational change N1 - Chapter, Lesson, Part; Chapter One: The Constructivist Paradigm: Teaching the Way Students Learn; Chapter, Lesson, Part; Chapter Two: The 20 Percent Solution: An Early Literacy Framework for Struggling Readers; Chapter, Lesson, Part; Chapter Three: Students Won't Read Textbooks? Try Three-Point Book Club; Chapter, Lesson, Part; Chapter Four: Nature Journaling across the Curriculum; Chapter, Lesson, Part; Chapter Five: Teaching Social Studies: What Is the Right Answer?; Chapter, Lesson, Part; Chapter Six: Motivating Students to Read Using Constructivist Strategies; Chapter, Lesson, Part; Chapter Seven: Developing Curriculum for the Constructivist Classroom; Chapter, Lesson, Part; Chapter Eight: Teaching Study: A New Definition of Professional Development; Cover, Title,Teaching the way students learn: practical applications for today's classrooms--Preface, Introduction, TOC,Contents--Preface, Introduction, TOC,Prologue--Preface, Introduction, TOC,Acknowledgments--References, Appendix, Index,Epilogue--References, Appendix, Index,Contributors N2 - How do students truly learn? What is the best way to teach? Where do you go for help? Every day, you face the challenge of engaging students in learning, often to disappointing results. This book provides a myriad of voices at your side supporting you with sound educational philosophy and practical ideas for teaching your students. Teaching the Way Students Learn: Practical Applications for Today’s Classrooms helps you explore the social constructivist paradigm through instructional strategies and true life “teaching memoirs.” Constructivism is more than an “ism,” it explains how students learn, and this book provides both philosophy and practicality to bring constructivist teaching to life in the classroom. Teaching and learning using a social constructivist lens can transform the classroom, helping you become change agents for your students and leaders for your schools UR - http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/ROWMANB0002582.html ER -