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The Self-Directed Learning Handbook: Challenging Adolescent Students to Excel
Maurice Gibbons
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Description for The Self-Directed Learning Handbook: Challenging Adolescent Students to Excel
Paperback. The Self-Directed Learning Handbook offers teachers and principals an innovative program for customizing schooling to the learning needs of individual students-- and for motivating them to take increasing responsibility for deciding what and how they should learn. Num Pages: 208 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNLC; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 12. Weight in Grams: 526.
The Self-Directed Learning Handbook offers teachers and principals an innovative program for customizing schooling to the learning needs of individual students-- and for motivating them to take increasing responsibility for deciding what and how they should learn. Whether the students are struggling or proficient, the program is designed to nurture their natural passion for learning and mastery, challenging them to go beyond the easy and familiar so they can truly excel. The program can be introduced in stages in any middle or high school classroom and enables students of diverse abilities to design and pursue independent course work, special projects, ... Read more
The Self-Directed Learning Handbook offers teachers and principals an innovative program for customizing schooling to the learning needs of individual students-- and for motivating them to take increasing responsibility for deciding what and how they should learn. Whether the students are struggling or proficient, the program is designed to nurture their natural passion for learning and mastery, challenging them to go beyond the easy and familiar so they can truly excel. The program can be introduced in stages in any middle or high school classroom and enables students of diverse abilities to design and pursue independent course work, special projects, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787959555
SKU
V9780787959555
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Maurice Gibbons
Maurice Gibbons is education professor emeritus, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia and a former teacher of grades 4 through 13. In his university position he specialized in the development of innovative educational programs, including the internationally celebrated Walkabout program for the transition of youth to adulthood. He has written books and journal articles on innovative education and self-directed learning and ... Read more
Reviews for The Self-Directed Learning Handbook: Challenging Adolescent Students to Excel
"This is a how to book for adventurous teachers who understand that learning is an integral component of teaching." (Education Review, December 2, 2003)