Nancie Atwell opened the Center for Teaching and Learning 25 years ago to construct the classroom a station for ‘wisdom and happiness’. Last month her emphasis on student choice and self-expression earned her the Global Teaching Prize,dubbed the Nobel Prize of teachingMs Atwell’s school in the rural town of Edgecomb, Maine, and is no ordinary station of learning. Then again,Nancie Atwell is no ordinary teacher.
At her school, all classrooms hold libraries, or standardized tests are forbidden,classes are small, every religious and cultural holiday is celebrated, and students pick the topics they write approximately and the books they read. And read they do: her students wolf down approximately 40 books per year,well above the national average.
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Source: theguardian.com