Kamii bases her educational strategies on renowned constructivist Jean Piaget's scientific ideas of how children develop logico-mathematical thinking. Written in collaboration with a classroom teacher, and premised upon the conviction that children are capable of much more than teachers and parents generally realize, the book provides a rich theoretical foundation and a compelling explanation of educational goals and objectives.Kamii calls attention to the ways in which traditional textbook-based teaching can be harmful to children's development of numerical reasoning, and uses extensive research and classroom-tested studies to illuminate the efficacy of the approach. This book is full of practical suggestions and developmentally appropriate activities that can be used to stimulate numerical thinking among students of varying abilities and learning styles, both within and outside of the classroom.

    

    The result of his search is 20 Teachers, a collection of revealing profiles in which outstanding educators explain what works for them in the classroom and why. Macrorie's interviews with these professionals show an astonishing similarity in their beliefs, methods, and attitudes and the keys to their success with students from first grade to the graduate level. Ranging from a woodworking instructor in a wealthy suburban school to an inner-city history teacher to a professor of space engineering, the teachers profiled here share a fundamental belief in putting choice and responsibility in the hands of their students, no matter what their age. Macrorie includes, in addition to the interviews, a summary chapter listing 43 items these teachers claim help learners to do good works. Finally, in an Open Letter About Schools, he explores the notion that schools have developed, often unwittingly, traditions that run counter to the way these educators work; he discusses the obstacles they face, from both within the system and without. Twenty Teachers offers insights that will enable others to inspire learning in their students and voices a new and challenging view of today's educational system.

    

    Provides over thirty case examples from a variety of settings illustrating andragogy (principles of adult learning) in practice.

    It offers a collection of 40 games, a variety of activities, including guessing, matching, searching, role-play and simulation, specific functional areas for each activity and photocopiable copy-masters.

    Most astonishing of all, perhaps, is that he averaged publishing a book a year for more than half a century of literary production.The emphasis in this book is on Jesse Stuart's life, with authentic, sometimes surprisingly intimate insights into his thoughts and attitudes toward his family, growing up, schooldays, work experiences, college life and friendships, the days of hunger and learning at Vanderbilt, the W-Hollow nights filled with starlight and poetic fire. Through his revelations you sense how he felt about his sudden rise to fame, his encounters with New York City which made him love the hills and hollows of his home all the more.Love and marriage, the World War II years, his literary successes and the first of seven heart attacks are described thought Stuart's eyes and words. here, too, is the twilight of his life - his first paralyzing stroke and then the second, which left him semi-conscious until his death on Feb. 17, 1984, at the age of seventy-seven.