Building Effective Learning Environments

Teachers are bombarded with trends and competing ideas. This book provides a framework to help you find the right balance between new and old instructional practices, so you can design learning environments that truly enhance learning.

Auteur

Kevin S. Krahenbuhl, Ed.D. is Associate Professor of Education and Program Director for the Assessment, Learning, and Student Success Ed.D. Program at Middle Tennessee State University. He has spent his entire professional life in public schools and is committed to working with public schools to improve learning for all students. He is also author of The Decay of Truth in Education (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018).

Contenu

Part I: Foundations: What Do We Need to Know? 1. Principles to Engage Learning 2. Principles to Extend Learning 3. Learning Myths and Other Nonsense Part II: Framework: How Do We Do This? 4. The Trivium: A Classical Method 5. Engaging with New Ideas and Evidence 6. The 21st Century Trivium Framework 7. Instructional Principles 8. Application in Specific Content Areas 9. Conclusion