Binding: Paperback
Description: Delving into the journey of teachers and students in the knowledge building classroom Teo's playkit offers practical approaches to making classrooms a place of knowledge creation. Teo highlights the potential and possibility of idea - centric discourse and interactions in Singapore's high - performing education system while offering a trilogue among researchers teachers and students: the agents of a knowledge building environment in classrooms. Documenting case examples of knowledge building lessons in relation to the curriculum design and pedagogical decisions and moves as well as the formative assessment the book focuses on those 21st - century practices embedded within the knowledge building process. It comprises a series of teachers journeys in different subjects and grades demonstrating the depth and breadth of projects that students are capable of pursuing in class when they are entrusted to work with their own ideas and questions. It also offers a collection of concrete tools and strategies for teachers to use to support knowledge building work. The different case examples support teachers in their design effort and will encourage the community of researchers and educators to continue to imagine the possibilities of pedagogical educational reform. Written for practitioners this playkit aims to engage the wider community of teachers to play with their own lesson ideas as they engage their students in knowledge creation.
Title: A Teachers Playkit For Knowledge Building Creative Ways To Make Students Ideas Come Alive
Author(s): Teo Chew Lee (Nanyang Technological University Singapore)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367710729
Pages: 116 Pages, 21 Line Drawings, Color; 1 Line Drawings, Black And White; 40 Halftones, Color; 2 Halfton
Publication Date: 8/18/2023
Category: Teaching Skills & Techniques