Let Them Show Us the Way

Phyllis Dalley is a research assistant at the University of Moncton and
a lecturer in women’s studies at Mount Allison University in New
Brunswick.

Teachers often ask how the theories encountered in pre-service or in
in-service training may be put to practical use in the everyday life of
the classroom. This book presents “stories” of classroom experiences
that show how Anne Green and her students become a community of
learners. Interspersed with theoretical concepts that form the basis of
her practice, the stories model the use of various child-centred
pedagogical methods and tools, from whole-language approaches to
education and the differentiation of learning needs, to the development
of partnerships with parents, to a school-wide community of learners.

This book will be particularly useful to educators who are familiar
with child-centred education, whole language, Bloom’s taxonomy,
Gardner’s multiple intelligences, and Vygotsky’s zone of proximal
development. This knowledge is al-luded to but not explicitly
articulated. Let Them Show Us the Way admirably fulfils its stated
intention to help teachers discover “what [they] already know and to
reach for new skills and new concepts in meaningful contexts.”