Author(s): Jacqueline Grennon Brooks
Edition: 0
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 160
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
PART I Learning to Live a Life......Page 12
A Life with Standards......Page 14
Learning to Find and Solve Problems......Page 15
Common Thinking......Page 22
Changing Images of Complex Systems......Page 26
A Life with Questions......Page 29
Really Knowing......Page 31
Conflict Resolution Versus Conflict Suppression......Page 37
Safe and Sound......Page 38
A Life in Search of Meaning......Page 41
Teaching for Big Ideas......Page 43
Meaning: Lost and Found......Page 48
Big Ideas and Details......Page 54
PART II: Unlearning Lessons Learned in School......Page 56
Questions of Climate......Page 58
Lessons Learned......Page 60
Scripts That Suppress......Page 70
Showing Up and Following Directions......Page 72
Understanding the Instructional Program......Page 73
Beyond Showing Up and Following Directions......Page 80
Learning What We Need to Learn......Page 82
The True Negatives of False Positives......Page 84
Focused to a Fault......Page 85
Students the Way They Are......Page 86
One of Life’s Experiments......Page 89
Flexible Facts......Page 95
PART III Lessons That Last......Page 98
Uncertainties and Imperfections......Page 100
Risks, Gains, and Guarantees......Page 101
“The Big Picture” Again......Page 104
Teacher Scaffolding......Page 107
Back to the Heart of the Matter......Page 112
Negotiating Curriculum......Page 115
Curriculum with Embedded Assessment......Page 119
It Takes a Child......Page 123
Beginning with Understanding in Mind......Page 127
Broken Compasses......Page 128
Opening Eyes......Page 130
Finding Common Ground for Learning......Page 134
Old Issues, New Images......Page 138
Tough Questions, Evolving Answers......Page 139
Structure and Efficiency......Page 144
Collective Leadership......Page 151
Dreams and Disobedience......Page 153
References and Resources......Page 156
Online Resources......Page 161
About the Author......Page 164
