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Slow Looking
Slow Looking provides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and informal, and its connection to major concepts in teaching, learning, and knowledge. A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide educational benefits, slow looking contends that patient, immersive attention to content can produce active cognitive opportunities for meaning-making and critical thinking that may not be possible though high-speed means of information delivery. Addressing the multi-disciplinary applications of this purposeful behavioral practice, this book draws examples from the visual arts, literature, science, and everyday life, using original, real-world scenarios to illustrate the complexities and rewards of slow looking.
New Perspectives on the Holocaust
Authors involved in teaching about the Holocaust offer guidance and confront issues related to teaching about the Holocaust.
Makeology
Makeology introduces the emerging landscape of the Maker Movement and its connection to interest-driven learning. While the movement is fueled in part by new tools, technologies, and online communities available to today’s makers, its simultaneous emphasis on engaging the world through design and sharing with others harkens back to early educational predecessors including Froebel, Dewey, Montessori, and Papert. Makers as Learners (Volume 2) highlights leading researchers and practitioners as they discuss and share current perspectives on the Maker movement and research on educational outcomes in makerspaces. Each chapter closes with a set of practical takeaways for educators, researchers, and parents.
Participatory Creativity
Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom presents a systems-based approach to examining creativity in education that aims to make participating in invention and innovation accessible to all students. Moving beyond the gifted-versus-ungifted debate present in many of today’s classrooms, the book’s inclusive framework situates creativity as a participatory and socially distributed process. The core principle of the book is that individuals are not creative, ideas are creative, and that there are multiple ways for a variety of individuals to participate in the development of creative ideas. This dynamic reframing of invention and innovation provides strategies for teachers, curriculum designers, policymakers, researchers, and others who seek to develop a more equitable approach towards establishing creative learning experiences in various educational settings.
Virtuous Minds
Teacher-administrator Philip Dow explores the implications of setting intellectual character (rather than intellectual content) at the heart of our educational programs. With ample stories and practical suggestions, Dow shows how intellectual virtues like tenacity, carefulness and curiosity are teachable traits that can produce good lives.
Future Wise
How to teach big understandings and the ideas that matter most Everyone has an opinion about education, and teachers face pressures from Common Core content standards, high-stakes testing, and countless other directions. But how do we know what today's learners will really need to know in the future? Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World is a toolkit for approaching that question with new insight. There is no one answer to the question of what's worth teaching, but with the tools in this book, you'll be one step closer to constructing a curriculum that prepares students for whatever situations they might face in the future. K-12 teachers and administrators play a crucial r...
Discovering & Exploring Habits of Mind
Describes the "habits of mind" that can aid both students and adults in school and in everyday life as they encounter problems, dilemmas, and enigmas, the resolutions of which are not immediately apparent.
King Arthur's Round Table
Your organization functions and grows through conversations face-to-face and electronic, from the mailroom to the boardroom. The quality of those conversations determines how smart your organization is. This revelatory book shows you how the Round Table of Arthurian legend can help foster collaboration and transform today s world of business, nonprofits, and government. "When I want a group to work effectively, I turn immediately to my colleague of thirty-five years, David Perkins. This book is a distillation of his knowledge and wisdom." Howard Gardner author of Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Intelligence Reframed "David Perkins applies his wit and inventive mind to create a fresh perspective on the world of collaboration in organizations. His archetypes and toolboxes offer valuable insights to anyone facing the challenges of collaborative problem solving." David Straus author of How to Make Collaboration Work
Activating & Engaging Habits of Mind
Presents practical advice for using the "habits of mind"--Sixteen types of intelligent behavior--in the classroom, including discussion of their application to mathematics, art, foreign language, reading comprehension, and character instruction.
Assessing & Reporting on Habits of Mind
This is the third in a four-book series describing 16 types of intelligent behavior called habits of mind. It considers how to assess and report student progress in using the habits of mind, maintaining that a critical attribute of intelligence is not only having information but also knowing how to act on it. After the "Series Foreword: Thinking on the Road of Life" (David Perkins), "Preface to the Series" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick), and "Preface to Book 3" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick), there are 8 chapters: (1) "Defining Indicators of Achievement" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick); (2) "Learning Through Reflection" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick); (3) "Assessing the Habits of Mind" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick); (4) "Wondering To Be Done" (Steve Seidel); (5) "Reporting Growth" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick); (6) "Building a Culture Where High Quality Counts" (Steven Levy); (7) "Immersing Parents and Students in the Habits of Mind" (Jodi Bongard and Judy Lemmel); and (8) "Getting Started" (Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick). (Most chapters include references.) (SM)
