Learning in Safe Schools: Creating Classrooms Where All Students Belong - Softcover

Brownlie, Faye; King, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551382660 ISBN 13: 9781551382661

Publisher: Pembroke Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

A practical and timely revision, Learning in Safe Schools offers the tools teachers need for building inclusive schools, from establishing a schoolwide code of conduct to creating, enforcing, and supporting a behavior plan. Grounded in the concept that choice for students in both learning and assessment is critical, this completely updated resource offers ideas for planning and adapting curriculum for a wide range of students and encourages strategies that build collaborative learning with examples of effective approaches to problem solving. Learning in Safe Schools includes resource models, class reviews, adaptations, and activities that will help teachers create safer classrooms where all students feel they belong.

About this title

About the Author

Faye became a teacher because she loves kids of all ages and their enthusiasm for learning. "They keep me young and involved and push my thinking and learning about how to meet the needs of each and every one of them," she explains.

She's been an elementary and secondary classroom teacher and resource teacher, a lecturer at universities, and a curriculum coordinator for gifted and enriched education. She is currently teaching one day a week in an elementary school and is working on ongoing staff development with schools, school districts, and ministries of education. Faye is also the head of a design team and consortium for a multidistrict, performance-based reading assessment for grades 3 through 9.

Faye thinks that professional development "must build on the participants' expertise, must connect theory to practice, must be ongoing, must require engagement and participation from the teachers and administrators, and must be classroom based."

When working on a book, she lets ideas run through her head for some time. She then constructs the book "from the key questions that are posed to me again and again as educators work together to make the best sense of teaching and learning that they can. The writing itself flows easily. I imagine I am working with a group of educators and write as if I were speaking with them. I find that writing is a great way to polish my thinking."

Faye lives in Vancouver with her husband and daughter, and enjoys traveling, skiing, biking, and reading.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pembroke Publishers
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1551382660
• ISBN 13: 9781551382661
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128