Johnston Peter - Opening Minds Using Language To Change Lives - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying Let's see how many words you know is different from saying Let's see how many words you know already. It is only one word but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and most important that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known. Peter Johnston Grounded in research Opening Minds: Using Language to Change Livesshows how words can shape students learning their sense of self and their social emotional and moral development. Make no mistake: words have the power to open minds or close them. Following up his groundbreaking book Choice Words author Peter Johnston continues to demonstrate how the things teachers say (and don't say) have surprising consequences for the literate lives of students. In this new book Johnston shows how the words teachers choose can affect the worlds students inhabit in the classroom. He explains how to engage children with more productive talk and how to create classrooms that support students intellectual development as well as their development as human beings.
Title: Opening Minds Using Language To Change Lives
Author(s): Johnston Peter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Barcode: 9781571108166
Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Date: 1/10/2012
Category: Educational Material