Worksheets Don't Work: 50 Engaging Tasks That Make Learning Stick - Softcover

Daffern, Aaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0999024167 ISBN 13: 9780999024164

Verlag: Aaron Daffern Consulting, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

In Worksheets Don’t Work, Aaron Daffern explores what neuroscience has discovered about human memory and how it applies to teaching and learning. While traditional worksheets, found easily online and as a part of textbook resources, are prolific, that doesn’t mean that they are effective. Too often, worksheets are distributed to students because of their accessibility and ability to quickly generate a numerical grade.

Yet just admitting that worksheets are expedient but not efficient does little to help teachers. Daffern gives educators 50 different worksheet alternatives, each with several embedded variations, which can be quickly used to engage and assess learners. Each alternative is based in the neurological reality that students generate meaning when they actively work to make sense of the content, linking it to prior knowledge and wrestling with it from many different perspectives. The alternatives presented in the book are split into ten different categories.

1. Word Work - Building academic vocabulary
2. Options - Providing students with voice and choice
3. Reflections - Teaching and encouraging metacognition
4. Kaleidoscope - Taking the perspective of others and building empathy
5. Synthesis - Analysis and summary of content
6. Human Interaction - Building relationships in the classroom
7. Extended Response - Expanding writing skills
8. Energy and Movement - Engaging kinesthetic learners
9. Thought Organizers - Organizing learning
10. Scaffolding - Differentiating instruction and support for diverse learners

“I would recommend any type of teacher preparation program to utilize Worksheets Don’t Work as part of their curriculum for supporting new teachers.”
-Dr. Terra Smith, Education Consultant, TS Consulting Services, LLC, Sugar Land, Texas

“Finally a book that looks at learning from a student centric point of view!”
- Dr. Bhavana Nair, Licensed Psychologist, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

“Daffern’s insight into relationships and motivation for students is important because what's not created within strong, positive rapport and motivation lacks in student outcomes.”
-Dr. Lindsie O’Neill Almquiest, Principal, Nadine Johnson Elementary, Hutto, TX

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Aaron Daffern Consulting
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0999024167
• ISBN 13: 9780999024164
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar