Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student An Active Learner (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
This book has more applications for the classroom than the library setting. That said, I was surprised in a good way to see a mention of reading aloud and that it is okay for students to just sit and listen and enjoy the book. YAY!!! I got some pointers from the section on classroom clickers to apply to my lessons using a set of SMART Response in the library. The physical response techniques remind me that very often in education: what goes around, comes around. Back 24 years ago when I was a rookie bilingual teacher, TPR (total physical response) was the hot strategy. I was also glad to see the sources and references were up to date, very few prior to the year 2000, most from the late 2000s. While I didn't particularly care for the authors' writing, this book does contain some solid, practical teaching strategies for increasing the level of student engagement in lessons. One cannot underestimate the importance of purposefully planning for student engagement. It was satisfying to recognize so many of the strategies as those that I see in the classrooms in our school. I truly have a school full of top notch teachers! I'm looking forward to doing a book study with them on this topic. The discussions should be rich.
What do You think about Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student An Active Learner (2011)?
Very good resource for practical ways to add active participation into the classroom.
—Christina
Best teaching book ever, and possibly the only one I will ever need.
—minibarbie
