This book comes straight out of the School of Education at Harvard....so it will help you with your ed-you-kay-shun!!! The information for this book came from Harvard's Project Zero.
Amazon says:
A progressive, research-based approach for making learning visible
Based on the Reggio Emilia approach to learning, Visible Learners highlights learning through interpreting objects and artifacts, group learning, and documentation to make students' learning evident to teachers. Visible classrooms are committed to five key principles: that learning is purposeful, social, emotional, empowering, and representational. The book includes visual essays, key practices, classroom and examples.
- Show how to make learning happen in relation to others, spark emotional connections, give students power over their learning, and express ideas in multiple ways
- Illustrate Reggio-inspired principles and approaches via quotes, photos, student and teacher reflections, and examples of student work
- Offer a new way to enhance learning using progressive, research-based practices for increasing collaboration and critical thinking in and outside the classroom
Visible Learners asks that teachers look beyond surface-level to understand who students are, what they come to know, and how they come to know it.
The quest of this book is to teach teachers that education must be visible....to show proof of learning. The authors say there are several characteristics that visual classrooms must have: purposeful learning, social learning, learning is representational, empowering and emotional. They believe that learning should be a collaboration between the students and teachers, and even the students among themselves as this leads to critical thinking. The critical thinking that takes place isn't limited inside the classroom community...it can cross grade level lines or even be cross-curricular.
So....as usual, I am going to give this book away!! Just look below for the rafflecopter entry!
