Reshaping the Paradigms of Teaching and Learning: What Happens Today is Education's Future [Hardcover]

Historically, we have been engaged with a model of education reform since the latter part of the last century. We now have a cycle thats become a system with pockets of promise and isolated experiments. It appears that everyone is an education reformer and every district, charter and region has their own particular experiment, giving the appearance of widespread innovation. Weve grown comfortable with this interruption that tolerates, or celebrates, the experiments as long as they don't seriously disrupt our entrenched classroom approach to teaching and learning. Reshaping the Paradigms of Teaching and Learning is a call to move beyond experimentation and transform the understanding of our entire system of education. The author defines the distinctions between the teaching system of the last century and the need for learning systems and how this is possible for today's learner. Understanding the difference, and understanding the need, is our first step toward a broad transformation. That understanding begins with the thought but demands the action. Disruption, and each learner, awaits that transformation.Dr. Alan Wimberley is a motivating speaker, passionate writer and energetic creator of authentic learning systems. You can find his writings about reshaping the paradigms of teaching and learning at www.alanwimberley.com, visit the website of Responsive Education Solutions at www.ResponsiveEd.com, where he serves under the leadership of the CEO as the chief education architect for hundreds of educators and see evidence of the principles in this book at www.valueaddeducation.com. For those interested in his availability for speaking engagements, shared and mutual efforts or additional opportunities, he can be contacted at reshaping.ed@gmail.com.

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