Students Taking Charge ─ Inside the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom

Sulla, a former teacher, computer programmer, and district administrator who is associated with an educational consulting company that specializes in instructional and organizational design, presents a guide for teachers to designing and implementing an authentic learning unit that engages students, builds responsibility for learning, increases academic rigor, and incorporates technology. She details how to design an appropriate core problem for students to solve and the analytic rubric to provide them with clear expectations, and how to create participatory structures for students, unit and classroom-level differentiation, and an environment in which students take responsibility for their own learning, as well as facilitate learning and design the physical classroom. There is no index. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)