An edition of Becoming self-directed learners (2014)

Becoming self-directed learners

student & faculty memoirs of an experimenting high school 40 years later

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An edition of Becoming self-directed learners (2014)

Becoming self-directed learners

student & faculty memoirs of an experimenting high school 40 years later

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"In 1972, an intrepid group of teachers and students at New Trier High School (Winnetka, IL) formed the Center for Self-Directed Learning. Each student would design their own program instead of following the daily grind of standardized courses with off-the-shelf textbooks, canned lectures, and, of course, the all-important final exam. Approximately 600 students took the plunge into the unknown during the Center's 10 years. Now, more than 35 Center graduates look back on their experience, each of them writing about why they left the standard curriculum and joined the Center, what they did in the Center, and how the Center has affected their adult lives"--Back cover.

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Windy City Publishers
Language
English
Pages
274

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Self-managed learning, Personal narratives, Alternative education, New Trier High School (Winnetka, Ill.), New Trier High School (Winnetka, Ill.). Center for Self-Directed Learning, New Trier High School (Winnetka, Ill.).

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Table of Contents

Faculty Memoirs. From the Center; Becoming Self-Directed; Purposefully and Self-Consciously Involved; My Great Adventure; The Worst Educational Invention. Student Memoirs. 1973: The Year of Thinking Dangerously; The Once and Future Law; What's A Year Worth. 1974: The Risk Factor; Finding The Work of the Soul; Professor Chang; Milestones of the Heart; Learning To Live; A New Direction from Self-Direction. 1975: Moments of Judgement; Beyond a Music Geek; A Test of Time; You Can Never Take Away the Center from a Draftee; Center Memories Don't Improve With Age.
1976: The Music Man; From Small Seeds; The Centerfold
Images of the Center. 1977: An Introvert's Evolution; Doing The Right Thing And Feeling Like a Jerk; Ripples; Learning Faster, Thinking Deeper; Akin to Cousins; Right Place, Right Time. 1978: Behind The Gates, I Found My Rose Garden; My Miserable Year Under The Skin; The Power of Community; Reflections on Building the Center Planetarium; An Implausible Ending. 1979: My Garnet Earrings; Jumping Off The Chair; Getting Good
My View; The World For My Classroom. 1980: Car Parts and Other Matters; Lead and Let Lead; Turns Out I'm Smart.
1981: My Launching Pad, Ahh, Newton!; Out of Commitment, Curiosity, and Innovation. Epilogue. Appendices: Sample Synthesis; Stuard Detmer and the Center
His Dad's Perspective; A Mother's View; Marching to Their Own Drummer.

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Includes index and glossary.

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Chicago, Illinois

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Dewey Decimal Class
371.02
Library of Congress
LD7501.W658 B43 2014

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Pagination
xii, 274 pages
Number of pages
274

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OL49205265M
Internet Archive
isbn_9781935766902
ISBN 10
1935766902
ISBN 13
9781935766902
LCCN
2013954701
OCLC/WorldCat
921933838

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