Opening Minds : Using Language to Change Lives


Peter H. Johnston
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Portland : : Stenhouse Publishers, , 2012.
Omfang
1 online resource (299 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Choosing Words, Choosing Worlds; CHAPTER 2 Learning Worlds: People, Performing, and Learning; CHAPTER 3 Changing Learning Narratives; CHAPTER 4 "Good Job!" Feedback, Praise, and Other Responses; CHAPTER 5 Any Other Ways to Think About That? Inquiry, Dialogue, Uncertainty, and Difference; CHAPTER 6 Social Imagination; CHAPTER 7 Moral Agency: Moral Development and Civic Engagement; CHAPTER 8 Thinking Together, Working Together; CHAPTER 9 Choice Worlds; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - ""Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known."". - Peter Johnston. Sometimes a single word changes everything. In his groundbreaking book Choice Words , Peter Johnston demonstrated how the things teachers say (and don't say) have surprising consequences for the literate lives of students. Now,
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Dewey
ISBN
9781571108166

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