Extreme Learning - Softcover

Extreme teaching and learning in an extraordinary blend of idealism and practicality. This book confirms that Dr. Babbage's understanding of the teaching/learning process is indeed profound. -- Michael T. Romano, professor emeritus, University of Kentucky Babbage's book offers a challenge to educators-complete with plain language, clear examples, and passionate argument-to meet their students, whatever their ages or abilities, as real people with real lives, interests, and knowledge, and to build from those elements a learning community that will prove that learning is rewarding, empowering, and even fun. * Lexington Herald-Leader * All professional educators-but particularly practicing classroom teachers-could benefit from reading this interesting, relevant, and practical book. Truly it is one of those books that will inform our practice! * Kentucky Teacher * This book shows educators how to connect with students' energy and curiosity, using a fictional classroom based on the author's experiences with students. * Reference and Research Book News * Extreme Learning takes educators back to the basics: giving students meaningful work to do by connecting-in exciting and powerful ways-prior learning with new learning. In this book Dr. Babbage reminds us that extreme teaching produces extreme learning for students; and he clearly gives practitioners realistic, reasonable and attainable strategies for achieving both. -- Richard Hughes, superintendent, Hardin County Schools, Elizabethtown, KY

Keen Babbage shows educators how to cause extreme learning in the classroom while also creating a classroom learning community in which the teacher and the student team up in a vibrant, symbiotic, fulfilling partnership.