Literacy in the student-centered classroom : a practical approach to setup, design, and implementation / Julie A. Williamson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Williamson, Julie, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Language arts.
• Classroom management.

Physical Description:

xii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Education, [2008]

Summary:

• Are students more capable of acting appropriately when they know exactly what is expected of them? Of course they are. Literacy in the Student-Centered Classroom explains classroom management, the role of assessments in learning, and various methods for engaging students.
• In a step-by-step fashion, the reader learns how to set up a classroom before discovering how to use assessment to make lessons more effective. The final chapters of Literacy in the Student-Centered Classroom detail mini-lessons, assignment sheets, and assessments, which provide students the opportunity to choose, within the framework or structure of the unit, how to complete the requirements given them. Julie Williamson includes several humorous stories that help pinpoint expectations for the student-centered classroom.

Contents:

• The beginning of the year: developing the classroom environment
• Classroom management: a model for all grade levels
• Assessment: how to use it
• Putting assessment into action: how to get out of the box
• Descriptive writing: breaking down the process
• Poetry: a student-centered approach
• Research projects: expository writing in action
• Tying it all together: why it works
• Appendix A: the effects of metacognition and journal writing to improve reading comprehension in the battle ground school district.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168).

ISBN:

• 9781578868643
• 1578868645
• 9781578868650
• 1578868653
• 1578869102
• 9781578869107

OCLC:

232358023