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Reflective Teaching for Student Empowerment: Elementary Curriculum and Methods, 1/e

Dorene D. Ross, the University of Florida
Elizabeth Bondy, the University of Florida
Diane W. Kyle, University of Louisville

Published September, 1992 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

Copyright 1993, 376 pp.
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ISBN 0-02-403960-8


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Summary

Focusing on student empowerment as an essential aim of elementary education, this research-based curriculum and methods book guides future teachers toward reflective teaching...showing them how to use reflective decision-making to help elementary-school children become caring, involved, useful citizens.

Features


The book begins with a thoughtful, comprehensive definition of reflective teaching, and a strong rationale for its superiority to other foundational theories. This material is accompanied by numerous examples of reflective teaching in practice that demonstrate its practicality for classrooms and pupils.
The areas of social development. creative thinking, student academic engagement, self-discipline, and literacy are examined in depth. Abilities and attitudes in these areas are defined as fundamental to student empowerment... and strategies are presented that develop these abilities and attitudes and encourage in children the desire to be successful learners, to determine their own futures, and to participate productively in society.
Teacher empowerment is addressed, as well, through discussion of strategies aimed at helping future educators determine personal educational goals, and gain and maintain the autonomy to pursue those goals and implement their teaching philosophy.


Table of Contents
I. AN INTRODUCTION TO REFLECTIVE TEACHING.

    1. On Becoming a Reflective Teacher.
    2. Reflection and the Real World.
    3. Deciding Your Aims for Elementary Education.

II. TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT EMPOWERMENT.
    4. Promoting Literacy: Implications of Reading, Writing and Mathematics Research.
    5. In Pursuit of Literacy: The Implications of Teacher Effects Research.
    6. Helping Students Develop Social and Interpersonal Skills.
    7. Helping Students Become Good Thinkers.
    8. Engaging Students in an Empowering Curriculum.
    9. Empowering Students by Teaching Self-Discipline Necessary for Social Responsibility: Issues of Management and Social Control.
III. MAXIMIZING ONE'S PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY.
    10. Maximizing One's Profession-Autonomy: Selecting a Professional Environment.
    11. Maximizing One's Professional Autonomy: Working Within the Social System of the School.
    12. Maximizing One's Professional Autonomy Through Reflective Self Assessment.
    Index.

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