Exciting Classrooms - Thoms, Frank

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Résumé :
Meet Dan Hilliard Introduction I: What Can We Do Immediately? 1 Implement 10-2 Thinking 2 Instill Skills 3 Teach Literacy 4 Design Invitations 5 Make Meaning II: How Can We Expand Our Teaching Practice? 6 See the Big Picture 7 Search for Wisdom 8 Stay Current 9 Seek the Higher Road III: What Must We Change? 10 Abolish Tracking 11 Abandon the Crabs in the Cage 12 Stop the Interruptions 13 End One-Size-Fits-All Teaching IV: What Can We Learn from Beyond the Culture of Schools? 14 Become a Gadfly 15 Leverage Tipping Points 16 Teach As If 17 Take the Long View 18 Imagine the Ideal 19 Invoke the Cosmos V: How Do We Find Our Calling? 20 Grow Our Seeds 21 Rethink Our Philosophy 22 Achieve Our Dreams 23 Become Stakeholders 24 Begin at the End CODA: Make a Difference EPILOGUE: Hidden Expectations APPENDIX: Teaching Manifesto Index Acknowledgments About the Author...

Biographie:
Frank Thoms has been an innovative public and private school teacher known for his unique ideas and ability to connect with colleagues, students and parents. He has taught in four countries: the US, England, Mexico, and Russia and the former Soviet Union and has served as a consultant in more than one hundred-twenty-five schools....

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Meet Dan Hilliard
Introduction

I: What Can We Do Immediately?
1 Implement 10-2 Thinking
2 Instill Skills
3 Teach Literacy
4 Design Invitations
5 Make Meaning

II: How Can We Expand Our Teaching Practice?
6 See the Big Picture
7 Search for Wisdom
8 Stay Current
9 Seek the Higher Road

III: What Must We Change?
10 Abolish Tracking
11 Abandon the Crabs in the Cage
12 Stop the Interruptions
13 End One-Size-Fits-All Teaching

IV: What Can We Learn from Beyond the Culture of Schools?
14 Become a Gadfly
15 Leverage Tipping Points
16 Teach As If
17 Take the Long View
18 Imagine the Ideal
19 Invoke the Cosmos

V: How Do We Find Our Calling?
20 Grow Our Seeds
21 Rethink Our Philosophy
22 Achieve Our Dreams
23 Become Stakeholders
24 Begin at the End

CODA: Make a Difference
EPILOGUE: Hidden Expectations
APPENDIX: Teaching Manifesto
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author