Becoming self-directed learners
Subtitle: student & faculty memoirs of an experimenting high school 40 years later
By: James A. Bellanca, Arline Paul, and Mark Paul, editors
Publisher: Windy City Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781935766902
Subjects: Self-managed learning; Personal narratives; Alternative education; New Trier High School (Winnetka, Ill.); New Trier High School (Winnetka, Ill.). Center for Self-Directed Learning; New Trier High School (Winnetka, Ill.).
Description: "In 1972, an intrepid group of teachers and students at New Trier High School (Winnetka, IL) formed the Center for Self-Directed Learning. Each student would design their own program instead of following the daily grind of standardized courses with off-the-shelf textbooks, canned lectures, and, of course, the all-important final exam. Approximately 600 students took the plunge into the unknown during the Center's 10 years.  Now, more than 35 Center graduates look back on their experience, each of them writing about why they left the standard curriculum and joined the Center, what they did in the Center, and how the Center has affected their adult lives"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes index and glossary.
Table of contents: title: Faculty Memoirs. From the Center; Becoming Self-Directed; Purposefully and Self-Consciously Involved; My Great Adventure; The Worst Educational Invention.  Student Memoirs.  1973: The Year of Thinking Dangerously; The Once and Future Law; What's A Year Worth.  1974: The Risk Factor; Finding The Work of the Soul; Professor Chang; Milestones of the Heart; Learning To Live; A New Direction from Self-Direction.  1975:  Moments of Judgement; Beyond a Music Geek; A Test of Time; You Can Never Take Away the Center from a Draftee; Center Memories Don't Improve With Age.; title: 1976:  The Music Man; From Small Seeds; The Centerfold; title: Images of the  Center.  1977:  An Introvert's Evolution; Doing The Right Thing And Feeling Like a Jerk; Ripples; Learning Faster, Thinking Deeper; Akin to Cousins; Right Place, Right Time.  1978:  Behind The Gates, I Found My Rose Garden; My Miserable Year Under The Skin; The Power of Community; Reflections on Building the Center Planetarium; An Implausible Ending.  1979: My Garnet Earrings; Jumping Off The Chair; Getting Good; title: My View; The World For My Classroom.  1980:  Car Parts and Other Matters; Lead and Let Lead; Turns Out I'm Smart.; title: 1981:  My Launching Pad, Ahh, Newton!; Out of Commitment, Curiosity, and Innovation.  Epilogue.   Appendices:  Sample Synthesis; Stuard Detmer and the Center; title: His Dad's Perspective; A Mother's View; Marching to Their Own Drummer.