Increasingly, educators are recognizing that for children to thrive intellectually they need socially and emotionally healthy classrooms.
Recognition for his work includes the Albert Harris Award from the International Literacy Association for contributions to the understan.
He has published over eighty scholarly articles and a dozen books, some now in multiple languages.
Johnston grew up in New Zealand, taught elementary school, and came to the United States to do his Ph D in educational psychology.
Johnston Peter H.
About the Author Peter H.
Not only do these classroom practices develop the skills to achieve district benchmarks and beyond, they help develop children\'s humanity.
By embracing the ideas and teaching strategies in Engaging Literate Minds, you can help children to become socially, emotionally, and intellectually healthy.
Inside you\'ll find the following: Practical ways to develop a caring learning community and children\'s socio-Emotional competence Powerful teaching practices from real classrooms Engaging ways to encourage inquiry and student agency Suggestions on how to use formative assessment in everyday teaching practices Helpful research behind the classroom practices and children\'s development Ways to help students inspire and support each other Building a just, caring, Literate society has never been more important than it is today.
In Engaging Literate Minds, you\'ll discover how these teachers struggled and succeeded in building such classrooms.
Using the guiding principles from Peter Johnston\'s best-selling professional resources, Choice Words and Opening Minds, Peter and six colleagues began a journey to create just such classrooms--environments in which children meaningfully engage with each other through reading, writing, making, and discussing books.
Conveniently, this is exactly what parents have always wanted for their children--classrooms that offer and grow positive relationships and behavior, Emotional self-regulation, and a sense of well-being.
Increasingly, educators are recognizing that for children to thrive intellectually they need socially and emotionally healthy classrooms
