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Methods For Creating Successful Classrooms
From: Freedom To Learn
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The most incredible thing about children is that they are ready made for learning. If a teacher is prepared to begin at the students’ developmental level, children are perfectly built to learn in schools. They come to school in small, varied, and imperfect packages, but with the necessities to learn — human needs. The psychological and survival needs of humans serve as the motivational drive necessary to learn in any possible environment. When teachers learn how to help students meet their needs, they can develop students who are ambitious, cooperative, and outstanding students. Currently, in this country, this is easier than ever before because — with only a few exceptions — children’s survival needs are at least minimally met by social programs. When survival needs are satisfied, students are instead driven to satisfy their psychological needs including socialization, avoiding psychological pain, intellectual stimulation, and autonomy.
Contributors
Art Willans
Dr. Art Willans holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in education from Emporia State University and a Ph.D. in Developmental and Child Psychology from the University of Kansas. He has taught in the fields of education, special education, psychology, and child development, and administered several programs including a shelter for abused and neglected children and residential homes for behaviorally disordered children. He operates a preschool/therapeutic preschool, where he has refined his revolutionary methods. Art and his wife live in Reno, NV, and during the summer can often be found hiking trails high above Lake Tahoe.
Cari Williams
Cari Williams is a teacher with a Bachelor of Science in Education and Special Education K-12, and an endorsement in Early Childhood/Special Education from the University of Nevada, Reno. She met Dr. Willans when she interviewed for a position at his school and learned the basic methods in the book from him, while going on to make significant contributions to the methodology. Cari's professional experience includes serving as a Special Education Resource teacher for students from kindergarten through sixth grade, teaching Early Childhood Special Education, and currently teaching kindergarten. The concept for this book originated from her remarkable success in getting students to excel academically. Cari lives in Reno, NV with her husband and three children.
