Product Description: ''There's never been a more timely book, one that brings to life what it is that we need and want for all our children, written by someone who has proven it can be done.''-- Deborah Meier, educational reformer, writer, and activist''Teaching the Way Children Learn is a powerful antidote to an educational climate based more on the punitive consequences of rigid accountability than on the possibility for real learning...read more

The companion DVD, which can be packaged with new copies of the text, includes video cases based on actual classroom footage, along with reflection questions that reinforce the student's learning experience.

Product Description: Explore how “big ideas” form the centerpiece for early childhood curriculum approaches that are responsive to and respectful of children’s natural curiosity!   To help you engage in constructivist practices with your preschool and primary grade students, Constructivism across the Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms bridges the gap between theory and practice by carefully outlining seven Big Ideas–light, balance, cause and effect, transformation, sound, zooming in and out, and upside down–that provide springboard to developing an effective interdisciplinary, child-centered curriculum...read more

Product Description: In this pioneering text, Martin uses a constructivist approach to guide students in learning how to teach in a constructivist manner. Grounded in the belief that it is more important for children to learn how to do science than it is for them to learn about science, this text is predicated on the reality that teachers of elementary science do not need to know a great deal of science to be good science teachers, but need to be co-inquirers with their students...read more

Product Description: This book provides teachers with practical ways of constructing lessons that will engage students and help them develop personal responsibility for their own learning. State learning standards and related core curricula require students to demonstrate what they know and understand...read more

Filled with rich narrative and designed for educators working with troubling students each day, this insightful, practical guide leads you in developing helpful, trusting student-teacher relationships.

Product Description: This book provides teachers with practical ways of constructing lessons that will engage students and help them develop personal responsibility for their own learning.

Product Description: Constructivist Strategies for Proactive Middle Level Teachers is designed to prepare prospective middle level teachers for their first classroom experience and to help in-service teachers improve their teaching skills. Each of the themes in this book addresses a major goal set by the Carnegie Council on Academic Development or by the National Middle School Association particularly selected for middle-level programs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Through its unique integration of curriculum and learning principles, Early Childhood Curriculum: A Constructivist Perspective, 2nd Edition fosters authentic, developmentally appropriate practice for both preschool and early elementary classrooms...read more

Product Description: If you believe that schools can go beyond test scores and standards to foster students' understanding of subjects, then here's a book that will renew your commitment to meaningful teaching and learning. Using classroom observations and keen insights from research, one of education's foremost thinkers on constructivism explains Why lessons and courses should involve students in answering challenging questions, resolving contradictions, and solving intriguing problems...read more

Discusses how children can benefit from certain kinds of play during early childhood education, allowing them to explore their surroundings while still being conventially educated in the classroom. (view table of contents)

Discusses how children can benefit from certain kinds of play during early childhood education, allowing them to explore their surroundings while still being conventially educated in the classroom. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Create a school culture where your students can learn in a richer, more satisfying setting. Shapiro offers realistic methods for administrators facilitating a constructivist environment. He uses comparative case studies between the traditional and constructivist models, and concludes each chapter with a helpful summary and guide to resources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Constructing Early Childhood Science" focuses on teaching children how to actively engage in the scientific process, rather than learn about it passively. Each chapter begins with at least one hands-on activity, designed to help young science students begin to construct their conceptualizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Serving as an orientation to early childhood education (ECE) for ages 0-8, this text' s constructivist approach to learning encourages active involvement by asking students to observe, question, reflect, research, and analyze what early childhood educators do and why they do it.

Product Description: In this text, the contributors speak of issues such as educational excellence, cognition and learning, the knowledge base for various areas of study, procedures for developing curriculum, the importance of technology, multiculturalism and models and strategies for learning.

Explains how effective staff development targets everyone who affects student learning and explores the effects of three ideas--results-driven education, systems thinking, and constructivism--in shaping the new staff development.

Product Description: Based on sound learning, Building Understanding Together: A constructivist Approach to Early Childhood Education demonstrates the basic tenets of Piaget's constructivist theory in a comprehensive format. This text shows how constructivism can be applied to all areas of the curriculum; language arts, science, math, social studies, and the arts...read more

Product Description: This provocative and accessible text is addressed to prospective and practicing teachers who believe schools must be fundamentally reformed to meet student needs in an information age. Drawing on interviews with frontline educators, the authors integrate descriptive accounts of learning and teaching in schools today with emerging multicultural curricula, information technologies, organizational structures that support innovations, and democratic dialogue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work presents the latest findings on how constructivist theory can inform science and maths education. It covers techniques for determining students' understanding, and successful attempts to improve teaching and learning by reorganising the curriculum and through teacher education...read more

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Since the publication of the first edition in 1995, The Constructivist Leader has provided educational leaders at all levels with a conceptual framework for leadership defined as reciprocal, purposeful learning in community. Today, learning communities based on constructivist principles are a major part of the school improvement landscape.The Second Edition of this best-selling book enables readers to carry this constructivist vision and purpose forward, while effectively implementing standards-based reform, authentic assessment, and constructivist-based accountability.The new Second Edition features:An expanded theory of Constructivist Leadership based on a thorough examination of the most recent thinking in leadership, learning, and ethical communities. A comprehensive approach to issues of equity, diversity, and multiculturalism.Additional strategies and approaches for the implementation of constructivist leadership practice.Principles and examples to guide new approaches to accountability.New school and district stories of successful implementation of constructivist leadership.A deeper focus on the district's role in influencing policy at state and national levels and in protecting schools and classrooms from the negative impact of unwise policies and mandates.A new framework for the preparation of educational leaders.