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Cultivating the Learner-Centered Classroom, a progressively-oriented guide for teaching, provides teachers with concrete strategies for making a fundamental shift in educational thought and in practice: from behaviorism tconstructivism, from control tcooperation, from following recipes tunderstanding the learning process, from meeting standards tindividualizing expectations and instruction, and from coercing students obedience tfacilitating their authority and autonomy The authors offer practical procedures and strategies that are aligned with progressive educational thought, and bridge theory and practice concerning the following aspects of teaching: 1) facilitating community development in the classroom 2) facilitating community development with parents 3) classroom organization 4) observing and assessing student growth 5) planning instruction 6) individual, small group, and whole group instruction 7) evaluating and reporting student growth
