Teaching in the Fast Lane offers teachers a way to increase student engagement: an Active classroom.
Using the strategies in this book, teachers can strategically let go in ways that enable students to reach their Learning targets, achieve more, be motivated to work, learn to collaborate, and experience a real sense of accomplishment..
She offers student-cen-tered, practical strategies on sorting, station teaching, and cooperative Learning that will help teachers build on students\' intellectual curiosity, self-efficacy, and sense of purpose.
Author Suzy Pepper Rollins details how to design, manage, and maintain an Active classroom that balances autonomy and structure.
It\'s about students reach-ing explicit targets in different ways, which can result in increased student effort and a higher quality of work.
The Active classroom is about creating Learning Experiences differently, so that students engage in exploration of the content and take on a good share of the responsibility for their own learning.
Teaching in the Fast Lane offers teachers a way to increase student engagement: an Active classroom