A01=Sarah M. Butzin
academic achievement
Author_Sarah M. Butzin
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Category=JNT
classroom management
Classroom teachers
engaging classrooms
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grade school
group learning
invitational education
Project CHILD
young children
Product details
- ISBN 9781475836202
- Weight: 186g
- Dimensions: 150 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Creating Joyful Classrooms is a practical response to the malaise in America’s schools created by high stakes testing, disrespect for the teaching profession, and resources being redirected to charter schools and private school vouchers. Classroom teachers feel helpless and students feel hapless. Joy has left the building. This book offers the antidote to return joy and passion to teaching and learning. Whether a beginning teacher or a seasoned veteran, this book shows the way back to timeless child-centered best practices that engage young children and increase academic achievement. As joyful classrooms multiply, their success will drive out the poisonous rancor of cynicism and despair to become beacons of hope for children everywhere. This book also makes the case for changing the status quo in the elementary school. The standard traditional grade school is failing to meet the needs of children growing up in the information age. Elementary schools must evolve into multi-grade, multi-dimensional safe havens that challenge children academically, while remembering to cherish childhood. Based upon the theory of invitational education, this book provides specific strategies, along with classroom management tools, to create highly engaging classrooms for young children. It also offers inspiring stories of heroic teachers who beat the odds to bring joy back to school. It’s not too late for a better tomorrow.
Dr. Sarah Butzin is an award-winning teacher and author. She is creator of the Project CHILD instructional system, founder of the Institute for School Innovation in Tallahassee, FL and has served in numerous leadership positions including Chair of the International Alliance for Invitational Education.
