ABSTRACT
What does learner-centered education look like, and how can we best put it into practice? This helpful book by experienced educators Don Mesibov and Dan Drmacich answers those questions and provides a wide variety of strategies, activities, and examples to help you with implementation. Chapters address topics such as positioning students at the center of the lesson and teachers as coaches, making tasks relevant and engaging, incorporating the affective domain and social-emotional learning, assessing learning, and more. Appropriate for new and experienced teachers of all grades and subjects, this book will leave you feeling ready to help students take control of their own learning so they can reach higher levels of success.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section One|23 pages
Why Do Schools Need to Change?
chapter 1|6 pages
Learner-Centered Education (LCE) and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
part Section Two|72 pages
How Do the Teachers' and Students' Roles Change?
part Section Three|29 pages
Is There Room for the Affective Domain?
chapter 18|10 pages
Let All Students Know They Are Liked as Individuals
part Section Four|16 pages
Do Students Find School Relevant?
part Section Five|21 pages
How Do We Test What Students Should Be Learning?
part Section Six|67 pages
What Should All Teachers Understand?
chapter 29|6 pages
Lessons from COVID-19
part Section Seven|9 pages
Is Meaningful School Reform Possible?