Role Reversal : Achieving Uncommonly Excellent Results in the Student-Centered Classroom

Want To Make Your Students More Responsible For Their Own Learning? Want To Create An Academic Environment In Which Students Thrive And Develop A Genuine Thirst For Knowledge? Want To Improve Your Students' Standardized Test Results But Avoid A Teach-to-the-test Mentality That Throttles Creativity And Freedom? In This Book, Mark Barnes Introduces And Outlines The Results Only Learning Environment--a Place That Embraces The Final Result Of Learning Rather Than The Traditional Methods For Arriving At That Result. A Results-only Classroom Is Rich With Individual And Cooperative Learning Activities That Help Students Demonstrate Mastery Learning On Their Own Terms, Without Being Constrained By Standards And Pedagogy. By Embracing Results-only Learning, You Will Be Able To Transform Your Classroom Into A Bustling Community Of Learners In Which? * Students Collaborate Daily On A Number Of Long-term, Ongoing Projects. * Students Receive Constant Narrative Feedback. * Yearlong Projects Target Learning Outcomes More Meaningfully Than Worksheets, Homework, Tests, And Quizzes. * Freedom And Independence Are Valued Over Punitive Points, Percentages, And Letter Grades. * Students Manage Themselves And All But Eliminate The Need For Traditional Classroom Management. Learn How Your Students Can Take Charge Of Their Own Achievement In An Enjoyable, Project-based, Workshop Setting That Challenges Them With Real-world Learning Scenarios--and Helps Them Attain Uncommonly Excellent Results.