Tomorrow's Innovators: Essential Skills for a Changing World - Softcover

Adams, Dennis

 
9781475800814: Tomorrow's Innovators: Essential Skills for a Changing World

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Profound societal changes in the economic, technological, social, and educational fronts pose challenges for educators in their ability to equip young students with the skills and capabilities needed to navigate a digitally connected and complex world. Tomorrow's Innovators: Essential Skills For A Changing World focuses on approaches and methods to help teachers infuse their basic subject matter lessons with creativity, innovation, and adaptability. On a broader scale, we provide elementary and middle school educators with insights into current educational issues and suggestions for converting new ideas into practical classroom applications.

Teachers need to transform the classroom or school into a contemporary learning environment by paying attention to consistent classroom routines, using assessment data for improvement, and having a coherent organizational structure. The old foundations of reading, writing, and mathematics and the new basics of science, technology, and the arts will be at the core of schooling. More than ever, thinking about curriculum and instruction has to occur as the traditional boundaries between politics, technology, culture, education, and ecology disappear.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Dennis Adams, former Fulbright Scholar, has taught at the elementary school level. In higher education, he has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Maine, and McGill University in Montreal. He did graduate work at Harvard University and has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of more than 30 books and more than 100 journal articles on various educational topics.

Mary Hamm has taught at Ohio State University and the University of Colorado. More recently, she has been teaching at San Francisco State University. She has worked on both math and science standards and has published more than a dozen books and eighty journal articles on these subjects.

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ISBN 10:  1475800800 ISBN 13:  9781475800807
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012
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