Extreme Learning - by Keen J Babbage (Paperback)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

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.

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!

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.

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.

This book shows educators how to connect with students' energy and curiosity, using a fictional classroom based on the author's experiences with students.

About the Author

Keen J. Babbage has taught social studies in grades 7 - 12 and education classes at the college and graduate levels. He has school administration experience with grades 6 - 12 and has executive experience with three large corporations. In addition to this book, Dr. Babbage has written four others: 911 The School Administrator's Guide to Crisis Management (1996), Meetings for School-Based Decision Making (1997), High-Impact Teaching: Overcoming Student Apathy (1998), and Extreme Teaching (2002), all by ScarecrowEducation.