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Karen D and Colleen

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the three types of teaching that should occur in our schools are didactic teaching of subject matter, coaching that produces the skills of learning, and Socratic questioning in seminar discussion

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The principles of the Responsive Classroom must be practiced by educators in their interactions with each other, with the children, and with the parents

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all parents want what's best for their children and we must work with parents as partners

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we must know our children individually, culturally, and developmentally

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there is a set of social skills that children need to learn and practice in order to be successful. They form the acronym CARES--Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy, Self-control

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the greatest cognitive growth occurs through social interaction

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How children learn is as important as what children learn

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the social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum

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the desire to continue their own learning should be the prime motivation of those who dedicate their lives to the profession of teaching

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the principal and faculty of a school should themselves be actively engaged in learning

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the principal of the school should never be a mere administrator, but always a leading teacher who should be cooperatively engaged with the school’s teaching staff in planning, reforming, and reorganizing the school as an educational community

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each student’s achievement of these results would be evaluated in terms of that student’s competencies, and not solely related to the achievements of other students

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the results of these three types of teaching should be (a) the acquisition of organized knowledge, (b) the formation of habits of skill in the use of language and mathematics, and
(c) the growth of the mind’s understanding of basic ideas and issues

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the primary cause of genuine learning is the activity of the learner’s own mind, sometimes with the help of a teacher functioning as a secondary and cooperative cause

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the three callings for which schooling should prepare all Americans are, (a) to earn a decent livelihood, (b) to be a good citizen of the nation and the world, and (c) to make a good life for one’s self

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schooling at its best is preparation for becoming generally educated in the course of a whole lifetime, and that schools should be judged on how well they provide such preparation

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the quality of schooling to which they are entitled is what the wisest parents would wish for their own children, the best education for the best being the best education for all

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they all deserve the same quality of schooling, not just the same quantity

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The 7 Basic Tenets of the Responsive Classroom

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The 7 Basic Tenets of the Responsive Classroom

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that all children can learn