Authentic Teaching and Learning for PreK-Fifth Grade: Advice from Practitioners and Coaches

Authentic Teaching and Learning for PreK–Fifth Grade provides examples of pedagogical approaches to enhance rich curriculums based around frameworks such as Teaching for Understanding, Making Thinking and Learning Visible, Artful Thinking, and Out of Eden Learn. You will learn about real classrooms that have successfully transformed cutting-edge ideas from these different frameworks into powerful learning experiences. A highly practical resource based on Harvard’s Project Zero ideas, this book shares how research findings have been complemented and implemented in the field, and will teach you how to apply best practices that lead to meaningful and authentic learning experiences in the classroom that promote Habits of Mind.

Angela K. Salmon, Ed. D., is Associate Professor and Director of the Early Childhood Program at Florida International University and founder of the Visible Thinking South Florida initiative.