Creating A Learner-Centred Primary Classroom: Learner-Centered Strategic Teaching

Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom is an essential resource to improve teaching practice, examining the key elements that contribute to a learner-centred classroom and offering strategies to encourage children to take a shared role in their learning.

Including case studies describing teachers’ methods for linking theory to practice, this user-friendly, photocopiable resource demonstrates how to:

• construct a learning community
• encourage collaborative learning
• share strategies for engaging individual learners
• provide a scaffold for strategic thinking in the classroom
• link assessment procedures to learning
• showcase the practice and outcomes of purposeful curriculum planning.

Any teacher who wants to practically tailor their teaching practice to meet the needs of individual learners will find this an invaluable resource

About The Author:

Kath Murdoch is an experienced teacher who lectured at the University of Melbourne, Australia for over a decade.

Jeni Wilson is an associate of the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Table Of Contents:

1 If you build it they will learn: Constructing a learning community 7

2 All together now: Helping students to work collaboratively 24

3 One size does not fit all: Engaging individual learners 35

4 Making the world of difference: Establishing community connections 50

5 Pressing the pause button: Teaching thinking strategically 64

6 The message that matters: Linking assessment to learning 84

7 Planning with purpose: Pathways for curriculum planning 101

Bibliography 113

Further reading 114

Index 116

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Creating a Learner-Centred Primary Classroom