Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools

Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools

<b>A progressive, research-based approach for making learning visible</b> <p>Based on the Reggio Emilia approach to learning, <i>Visible Learners</i> highlights learning through interpreting objects and artifacts, group learning, and documentation to make students' learning evident to teachers. Visible classrooms are committed to five key principles: that learning is purposeful, social, emotional, empowering, and representational. The book includes visual essays, key practices, classroom and examples.</p> <ul> <li>Show how to make learning happen in relation to others, spark emotional connections, give students power over their learning, and express ideas in multiple ways</li> <li>Illustrate Reggio-inspired principles and approaches via quotes, photos, student and teacher reflections, and examples of student work</li> <li>Offer a new way to enhance learning using progressive, research-based practices for increasing collaboration and critical thinking in and outside the classroom</li> </ul> <p><i>Visible Learners</i> asks that teachers look beyond surface-level to understand who students are, what they come to know, and how they come to know it.</p>