Faye Brownlie & Leyton Schnellert 
Collaborating to Support All Learners in English, Social Studies, and Humanities [PDF ebook] 

How can we help students develop the thinking skills they need to be successful learners? How does this relate to deep learning of important concepts? How can we engage and support diverse learners in inclusive classrooms where they develop understanding and thinking skills?

In this book, Faye and Leyton explore these questions and offer classroom examples to help busy teachers develop communities where all students learn. This book is written by two experienced educators who offer a welcoming and “can do” approach to the big ideas in education today. In this book, you will find:

• insightful ways to teach diverse learners, e.g., literature and information circles, open-ended strategies, cooperative learning, inquiry curriculum design frameworks, e.g., universal design for learning (UDL) and backward design assessment for, of, and as learning


• lessons to help students develop deep learning and thinking skills in English, Social Studies, and Humanities


• excellent examples of theory and practice made accessible real school examples of collaboration — teachers working together to create better learning opportunities for their students

Зміст

• Introduction xi


• Chapter 1 Meeting the Needs of All Learners 1


• Chapter 2 Working Together As a School 13


• Chapter 3 Assessment that Supports Learning 23


• Chapter 4 Frameworks and Approaches to Support Diverse Learners 41


• Chapter 5 Starting the Year with Significance 55


• Chapter 6 Inquiry and Thematic Teaching 77


• Chapter 7 Memoir Writing 99


• Chapter 8 Inquiry: Aboriginal Peoples of Canada 119


• Chapter 9 Inquiry and Oral Language 155


• Chapter 10 Engaging Critically with Text 177


• Chapter 11 Problem Solving in Geography 197


• Chapter 12 Online Literature Circles: Students and Teachers Learning Together 225


• Professional References 243


• Student Resources 249


• Chapter by Chapter Index 253

Про автора

Leyton Schnellert, Ph D, (he/his/him) is an associate professor in UBC’s Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy and Eleanor Rix Professor in Rural Teacher Education. He focuses on how teachers and teaching and learners and learning can mindfully embrace student diversity and inclusive education. Dr. Schnellert is the Pedagogy and Participation research cluster lead in UBC’s Institute for Community Engaged Research, inclusive education research lead in the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship, and co-chair of BC’s Rural Education Advisory. His community-based collaborative work contributes a counter argument to top-down approaches that operate from deficit models, instead drawing from communities’ funds of knowledge to build participatory, place-conscious, and culturally responsive practices. Leyton works and learns on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Sinixt who were declared extinct by Canada’s government in 1956 and stands in solidarity with the Sinixt in their reclamation efforts.Leyton has been a middle and secondary years classroom teacher and a learning resource teacher for grades K–12. His books, films, and research articles are widely referenced locally, nationally, and globally.