Breaking the Mold of Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for Student Engagement, Empowerment, and Motivation: Volume 4: Audrey Cohan: R&L Education

Breaking the Mold of Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for Student Engagement, Empowerment, and Motivation

Volume 4

Breaking the Mold of Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for Student Engagement, Empowerment, and Motivation

Volume 4

Description

Similar to the previous three volumes, Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2010), Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Cohan & Honigsfeld, 2011), and,Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2012), the purpose of this book is to offer a carefully selected collection of documented best practices for empowering students.
The contributing authors represent diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences, yet their chapters recognize similarities among students so that the innovations can be transferred to other contexts. Each chapter represents practical, research-based success stories as well as authentic accomplishments which motivate and engage all students.
The 20 chapters in this volume are organized into four sections: (a) making personal connections and engaging students in reflection; (b) engagement with literacy and language; (c) music, movement, arts, drama and other creative engagements; and (d) school culture, community, and student success. The compelling chapters shared in this volume—focused on innovation and transformation—will help thrust education and teacher action (rather than reaction) in a positive trajectory of change.

Foreword
Kenneth C. Williams

Preface
Audrey Cohan and Andrea Honigsfeld

Acknowledgments

Section I: Making Personal Connections and Engaging Students in Reflection

Using Urban Youth Culture to Activate the Racial Literacy of Black and Latino Male High School StudentsYolanda Sealey-Ruiz

Embracing Project-Based Learning with Emerging Technologies in theMultiage Classroom Shannon T. Page, Andrew P. Charland, April A. Scott, and Hiller A. Spires

Nurturing Curiosity by Teachers’ Purposeful Self-Evaluation and Reflective PracticeAngela K. Salmon and Thomas G. Reio, Jr.

Partnerships for the Common Good: Democratic Citizenship Through Writing, New Media, and the Arts Susan N. Wood, Nancye E. McCrary, Kate Larken, and Sioux Finney

Section II: Student Engagement with Literacy

Empowering English Language Learners: Reluctant Readers Learn to Believe in ThemselvesAudrey Figueroa Murphy and Robin E. Finnan-Jones

Teacherless Discussion: Engaging Middle School Students Through Peer-to-Peer TalkPatricia M. Breslin and Rebecca Ambrose

Staying Afloat in Ninth-Grade English: Letting Students Trim the SailsBeverly S. Faircloth and Samuel D. Miller

The Power of Technology to Advance Literacy, Learning, and AgencyEvelyn M. Connolly

It’s All About Me; I Mean You; I Mean Me: Strategies for Engaging Students in the Language Arts ClassroomMeg Goldner Rabinowitz

Everything Old is New Again: 21st Century College Students as Engaged ReadersHeather Rogers Haverback

Section III: Music, Movement, Arts, Drama, and Other Creative Engagements

Increasing Student Engagement Through the Implementation of Interactive Teaching StrategiesMara Sapon-Shevin

Competition and Considerations: The Use of Active Gaming in Physical Education ClassEve Bernstein, Anne Gibbone, and Ulana Lysniak

Low SES Primary School Students Engaging in an Afterschool Robotics ProgramVinesh Chandra, Annette Woods, and Amanda Levido

Stepping into Pictures and Music Scores: Imaginative Dramatic PlayJoanne Kilgour Dowdy and Mary T. Toepfer

Classrooms or Rock Stages? Learning Music Through CollaborationRut Martínez-Borda, Pilar Lacasa, María Ruth García-Pernía, and Sara Cortés-Gómez

Section IV: Connecting School Culture, Community, and Student Success
Growing Up Chinese AmericanJudy W. Yu
Raising Engagement and Enhancing Learning: School Community Partnerships that Work for Students at-PromiseDavid Zyngier
Montessori High Schools: Where Long-Standing Tradition Meets the Cutting EdgeWendy J. LaRue and Peter Hoffman-Kipp

Ma te Mahi e Ako Ai (Learning by Doing in New Zealand Higher Education): The Influence of Service-Learning on Student EngagementLane Graves Perry, Billy O’Steen, and Peter Cammock
“I teach like you are all gifted”: Leading Lowest Track Students to Become Confident Mathematics LearnersDella R. Leavitt and Erin N. Washington

Afterword
Laura J. Shea Doolan

Contributors

Product details

Published	Mar 19 2013
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	212
ISBN	9781475803518
Imprint	R&L Education
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Breaking the Mold of Education delivers on the promise of its title. More than a simple recounting of known best practices, it provides a vision of what education can and should be.

Robert J. Marzano, Chief Academic Officer, Marzano Research
This volume of Breaking the Mold is a carefully selected collection of articles, essays, and case studies divided into four broad areas. It takes a hands-on, no-nonsense approach as to how American schools should be tweaked... modified... and overhauled-- to engage and empower our children. Audrey Cohan and Andrea Honigsfeld have brought to the table educational leaders with concrete proposals to jump start the system. Simply put, this volume is required reading for anyone in the vanguard of educational reform.

Steve Kussin, Education Reporter for WCBS Newsradio 880 and adjunct professor, Hofstra University
The fourth book in the five-part Breaking the Mold series is a must-read. Cohan and Honigsfeld thoughtfully compiled research and best practices that center on student engagement. Given our collective concern with college and career readiness and positive behaviors in school, this book should serve as a cornerstone for any educator working with diverse student populations.

Timothy Eagen, assistant superintendent, Plainview-Old Bethpage CSD, New York