Fires in the Mind What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery 1st Edition by Kathleen Cushman, The students of What Kids Can Do 0470646039 9780470646038
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ISBN 10: 0470646039
ISBN 13: 978-0470646038
Author: Kathleen Cushman, The students of What Kids Can Do
Teens talk to adults about how they develop motivation and mastery
Through the voices of students themselves, Fires in the Mind brings a game-changing question to teachers of adolescents: What does it take to get really good at something? Starting with what they already know and do well, teenagers from widely diverse backgrounds join a cutting-edge dialogue with adults about the development of mastery in and out of school. Their insights frame motivation, practice, and academic challenge in a new light that galvanizes more powerful learning for all. To put these students’ ideas into practice, the book also includes practical tips for educators.
- Breaks new ground by bringing youth voices to a timely topic-motivation and mastery
- Includes worksheets, tips, and discussion guides that help put the book’s ideas into practice
- Author has 18 previous books on adolescent learning and has written for the New York Times Magazine, Educational Leadership, and American Educator
From the acclaimed author of Fires in the Bathroom, this is the next-step book that pushes the conversation to next level, as teenagers tackle the pressing challenges of motivation and mastery.
Fires in the Mind What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery 1st Table of contents:
1. What Does It Take to Get Good?
Young people are developing mastery in ways we easily overlook
2. Catching the Spark
Kids tell what draws them in and gives them confidence in learning
3. Keeping at It
When do young people stick with something and make it their own?
4. Asking the Experts
Looking at how experts work, students make sense of their own process
5. Exploring Deliberate Practice
Young people look closer at what makes practice effective
6. Practice and Performance
Demonstrating mastery also helps students improve
7. Bringing Practice into the Classroom
Students imagine the classroom as a community of practice
8. Is Homework Deliberate Practice?
Whether, when, and how to give kids practice after class
9. School Projects That Build Expert Habits
Students talk about their most compelling curricula
10. Making School a Community of Practice
Kids suggest ways that schools can foster expert habits
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