Learning in Safe Schools, 2nd Edition

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Pembroke Publishers Limited, 2011 - Classroom environment - 160 pages

This practical and timely edition of a popular book offers the tools teachers need for building safer, more inclusive schools -- from a school-wide code of conduct to creating, enforcing, and supporting a behaviour plan. Committed to teaching so all students can learn, the book offers ideas for planning and adapting curriculum for a wide range of students. It also encourages strategies that build collaborative learning, with examples of effective approaches to problem solving.

This completely updated resource includes current examples of resource models, class reviews, simple adaptations, and more. An emphasis on the importance of choice for students in both learning and assessment is at the core of this new edition. Ideal for both new and experienced teachers, this comprehensive book is full of simple suggestions, hands-on activities, and blackline masters will help teachers meet the diverse needs of all students.

 

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
5
Developing a Schoolwide Code of Conduct
11
Building a Culture Where All Students Belong
19
Learning as a Journey
31
Planning Lessons with the End in Mind
41
Show What You Know
51
Building an Inclusive Culture in a Secondary
60
Building an Inclusive Culture in an Intermediate
68
Making Adaptations and Modifications to Improve
80
Creating a Resource Model
100
Implementing Class Reviews
114
MAPS Planning for Individual Students
128
Appendix
138
Professional Bibliography
152
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