Student-Centered Learning by Design

Jacquelyn Whiting (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

154 Seiten

2021
Libraries Unlimited Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4408-7753-7 (ISBN)

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Current research is pushing schools to adopt more student-centered approaches to the classroom experience, and educators—librarians and classroom teachers alike—are being challenged to revise their curricula and instruction to be student-centered, personalized, and differentiated.

This book empowers librarians, teachers, and administrators to be empathic problem-solvers and decision-makers. By reframing the challenges that members of a learning community face as opportunities to better meet teaching and learning needs, readers will find that adoption of a mindset focused on users—namely, design thinking—elevates and creates opportunities for innovating pedagogy. Moreover, it can enhance school culture as well as build channels of communication among various stakeholders in schools and districts.

When educators of any subject or discipline apply design thinking skills to their curriculum implementation, authentic student-centered learning experiences become the core of the learning experience. The case studies shared in this book provide examples of student-centered approaches being used in elementary, middle, and high schools, so that readers have many models on which to base their work and from which to build confidence in shifting their pedagogy to keep the student at the center of teaching and learning decisions.

Jacquelyn Whiting is the instructional coach and technology integrator for the Brookfield Public Schools in Brookfield, CT. She is coauthor of News Literacy: The Keys to Combating Fake News.

Foreword by Michelle Luhtala
Preface
Acknowledgments
1—Introduction: What Is Human-Centered Design?
2—The Personas
3—A Design Process
4—Designing Curricula: A New Mindset for Curriculum Development
How Might We Leverage Content Standards to Empower Informed Student Action and Civic Engagement?19
5—Human-Centered Collaboration: Colleagues as Designers
How Might We Enhance Student Learning through Transdisciplinary Colleague Collaboration?35
6—Learning by Design: Putting Students at the Center as Design Thinkers
How Might We Disrupt the Traditional Classroom Structure to Empower Students to Be Agents of Change and to Take Informed Action? 51
Case 1: High School Sociology Class 52
Case 2: Digital Literacy Class 58
Case 3: Advanced Placement Chemistry 64
Case 4: The Great Gatsby Essay 68
Case 5: Ninth-Grade World History 70
Case 6: Sixth-Grade Social Studies 73
Case 7: Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Design 81
Case 8: Rethinking the Traditional Public Policy Paper in Civics Class 83
Case 9: Designing for a Multigrade Classroom 86
Case 10: Building a Safe Learning Environment in Third Grade 88
Case 11: An Entrepreneurial Educator Promoting Student Agency 90
Case 12: Solving Real-World Problems through Game-Based Design 93
7—Distance Learning by Design
8—Conclusions: Mindset Matters Most
Appendix A: Resources
Appendix B: Templates and Organizers
Appendix C: Technology Resources
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.04.2021
Vorwort	Michelle Luhtala
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	198 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4408-7753-X / 144087753X
ISBN-13	978-1-4408-7753-7 / 9781440877537
Zustand	Neuware