Visible learners
Subtitle: promoting Reggio-inspired approaches in all schools
By: Mara Krechevsky, Ben Mardell, Melissa Rivard, Daniel G. Wilson, foreword by Deborah Meier. 
Contributors: Mardell, Ben; Rivard, Melissa, 1964-; Wilson, Daniel G., 1969-; Meier, Deborah, writer of foreword
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781118345696
Subjects: Group work in education; Reggio Emilia approach (Early childhood education)
Description: Inspired by the innovative educational philosophy that originated in Reggio Emilia, Italy, Visible Learners offers research-based practices for fostering learning through interpreting objects and artifacts, group learning, and documentation to make students' learning evident to teachers. In this approach, learning becomes a visible activity that develops students' intellectual capacities as well as their individual and group identities as learners. Visible classrooms can be identified by five key principles--that learning is purposeful, social, representational, empowering, and emotional. The authors offer teachers and administrators practical ways to enhance learning by increasing collaboration and critical thinking across grade levels and subject matter. Also included is a section containing tools for incorporating guidelines in the classroom and the staffroom as well as ideas for engaging students' families.
Notes: "Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The yellow door: turning problems into projects in Kindergarten; title: The vernal pool: seventh-graders investigate and protect nature; title: Grappling with greatness: negotiating different points of view in AP literature; title: The amazing circus act: high school mathematics students learn in plain sight; title: Meet the directors: Kindergartners study the Boston Marathon; title: Eyes on engagement: supporting student inquiry in a fourth grade classroom; title: Making learning and learners visible; title: Unpacking the practice of group learning; title: Unpacking the practice of documentation; title: Making learning visible in an age of accountability; title: Supporting learning in groups in the classroom; title: Supporting learning in groups in the staffroom; title: Documenting individual and group learning; title: Engaging families in supporting student learning; title: Making learning visible beyond the classroom.