High School English Teacher's Guide to Active Learning

These books show you how you can: - foster reflective, independent thinking in your class - boost the number of students who actively participate - prevent the discussions from falling flat or degenerating into bull sessions This volume features 18 student-centered lesson plans and include answer keys for teachers. Each lesson plan engages students in active learning.

Nevertheless, there is some question about whether these adjectives are but
today's new buzz words for teaching and learning or are they old ideas that have
been put into new and improved packaging? Today, parents, students,
administrators, and teachers have become increasingly aware of the importance
of active learning because passive learning too often results in no learning at all.
Mel Silberman (Active Learning: 101 Strategies, 1996) and John Holt (How
Children Learn, ...