A Learning Community in the Primary Classroom

by Barbara Knighton, Jere Brophy, Janet Alleman

Book Overview

This richly detailed description and analysis of exemplary teaching in the primary grades looks at how a teacher establishes her classroom as a collaborative learning community, how she plans curriculum and instruction that features powerful ideas and applications to life outside of school, and how, working within this context, she motivates her students to learn with a sense of purpose and thoughtful self-regulation. The supporting analyses, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805855742
• ISBN13: 9780805855746
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"