Taking the Classroom Into the Community

A Guidebook
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-8039-6479-2
Verlag: Corwin

Buch, Englisch, 80 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 170 g

Get state-of-the-art equipment you can't afford to buy by putting students "to work" with the businesses in your community. Students will learn to meet industry standards of performance and how to work on an individual project within a larger group project. Glasgow shows you how to recruit the best community mentors. He includes a model for using student portfolios to evaluate and document progress and gives you tips for solving the liability issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glasgow, Neal A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Taking the Classroom into the Real World
One School's Approach
Changing Roles for Teachers
Mentoring
New Roles and Learning Outcomes
Looking for Help
Recruiting Mentors
Communicating with the Community and the Mentors
Is There Room for Something New?
Managing It All
The Portfolio
Putting the Portfolio to Work
Examples of Student Project Portfolio Evolution
Examples of Mentored Project Experiences
In Conclusion
The Future of the Classroom in the Community

Über Autor(innen)

Glasgow, Neal A.
Neal A. Glasgow's experience includes serving as a secondary school science and art teacher both in California and New York, as a university biotechnology teaching laboratory director and laboratory technician, and as an educational consultant and frequent speaker on many educational topics. He is the author or coauthor of ten books on educational topics: What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families: Fifty Research-Based Strategies for Teachers and Administrators (2008), What Successful Literacy Teachers Do: 70 Research-Based Strategies for Teachers, Reading Coaches, and Instructional Planners (2007), What Successful Teachers Do in Diverse Classrooms: 71 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2006); What Successful Teachers Do in Inclusive Classrooms: 60 Research-Based Strategies That Help Special Learners (2005); What Successful Mentors Do: 81 Researched-Based Strategies for New Teacher Induction, Training, and Support (2004); What Successful Teachers Do: 91 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2003); Tips for Science Teachers: Research-Based Strategies to Help Students Learn (2001); New Curriculum for New Times: A Guide to Student-Centered, Problem-Based Learning (1997); Doing Science: Innovative Curriculum Beyond the Textbook for the Life Sciences (1997); and Taking the Classroom to the Community: A Guidebook (1996).