Brooks, Jacqueline Grennon. <br/><br/>
Schooling for Life :  Reclaiming the Essence of Learning. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (168 pages) 
<br/><br/>Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I: Learning to Live a Life -- Chapter 1: A Life with Standards -- Learning to Find and Solve Problems -- Common Thinking -- Changing Images of Complex Systems -- Chapter 2: A Life with Questions -- Really Knowing -- Conflict Resolution Versus Conflict Suppression -- Safe and Sound -- Chapter 3: A Life in Search of Meaning -- Teaching for Big Ideas -- Meaning: Lost and Found -- Big Ideas and Details -- Part II: Unlearning Lessons Learned in School -- Chapter 4: Dispiriting Lessons and Missing Conversations -- Questions of Climate -- Lessons Learned -- Scripts That Suppress -- Chapter 5: Showing Up and Following Directions -- Understanding the Instructional Program -- Beyond Showing Up and Following Directions -- Learning What We Need to Learn -- Chapter 6: The True Negatives of False Positives -- Focused to a Fault -- Students the Way They Are -- One of Life's Experiments -- Flexible Facts -- Part III: Lessons That Last -- Chapter 7: Uncertainties and Imperfections -- Risks, Gains, and Guarantees -- "The Big Picture" Again -- Teacher Scaffolding -- Chapter 8: Back to the Heart of the Matter -- Negotiating Curriculum -- Curriculum with Embedded Assessment -- It Takes a Child -- Chapter 9: Beginning with Understanding in Mind -- Broken Compasses -- Opening Eyes -- Finding Common Ground for Learning -- Chapter 10: Old Issues, New Images -- Tough Questions, Evolving Answers -- Structure and Efficiency -- Collective Leadership -- Dreams and Disobedience -- References and Resources -- Online Resources -- About the Author -- Related ASCD Resources -- Search this Book. 
<br/><br/> Brooks goes inside the classroom to present contrasting examples of schooling that honors the complexity of learning and life and schooling that ignores it. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781416601142 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching -- United States.<br/>Constructivism (Education) -- United States.<br/>Active learning -- United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB1590.3 -- .B753 2002eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>370.15/23