Extreme Teaching

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Excited students happy to be in class and learning from fulfilled and rewarded teachers. Sounds like a dream you say Not if you apply the methodology described in Extreme Teaching. More than two decades in the classroom and careful research and reflection are the impetus behind author Keen Babbage's inspiring story. It is a call to action for all teachers to employ the recommended extreme solutions to make lessons real, worthwhile, meaningful, applicable, fascinating, and enjoyable. By connecting what students already know, already are interested in, and already are good at, with what students need to learn, extreme teachers can and will cause learning.

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Most of us are well versed in the concept of prior learning. Yet, Babbage encourages us to think deeply and to find and acknowledge students' prior learning, which exists on most topics although it mayor may nothave come from a formal lesson in school.He gives creative examples that identify students' prior learning and how it relates to new content to be learned....Babbage...provides examples of lesson plans that pertain to such topics as fractions, paragraph writing, reading comprehension, supply anddemand, multiplication, architecture, government, mathematics word problems, graphs, energy, motion and focus, chronological order, comparing and contrasting, accepting responsibility, the scientific method and others. Babbage does explain the term extreme teaching and provides us with enough data and information to enable us to do it....teachers and administrators...will benefit from his work.. * Kentucky Teacher *
Most of us are well versed in the concept of prior learning. Yet, Babbage encourages us to think deeply and to find and acknowledge students' prior learning, which exists on most topics although it mayor may nothave come from a formal lesson in school. He gives creative examples that identify students' prior learning and how it relates to new content to be learned....Babbage...provides examples of lesson plans that pertain to such topics as fractions, paragraph writing, reading comprehension, supply and demand, multiplication, architecture, government, mathematics word problems, graphs, energy, motion and focus, chronological order, comparing and contrasting, accepting responsibility, the scientific method and others. Babbage does explain the term extreme teaching and provides us with enough data and information to enable us to do it....teachers and administrators...will benefit from his work. * Kentucky Teacher *

Author Bio

Keen Babbage is associate principal at the Bryan Station Traditional Magnet School, a middle school that is part of the Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, Kentucky. He is the author of three other books published by ScarecrowEducation: High Impact Teaching: Overcoming Student Apathy, 911The School Administrator's Guide to Crisis Management, and Meetings for School-Based Decision Making.