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Active Citizenship Today Handbook for High School Teachers

Institution:

Close Up Foundation

Institution:

Constitutional Rights Foundation

Publication Date:

1994

Publisher:

Constitutional Rights Foundation

Pages:

144

Abstract:

Active Citizenship Today (ACT) is a school based program infusing service-learning into the curriculum and preparing students to be informed, responsible, and involved citizens. The program incorporates school-based learning, study of public policy, school community partnerships, participatory learning, cognitive reflection, and alternative assessment as means to enhance student learning. The handbook details the ACT framework, reviews practical considerations, outlines teaching strategies, and provides fourteen sample lesson plans which include classroom handouts. A student field guide is also available.

Call Number:

512/GC/CLO/1994

Sector:

K-12 Sector

Library Item Type:

Print resource - book/monograph

Exemplary:

Exemplary - classic

Demographics & Settings:

High School (9-12)

Demographics & Settings:

Teachers

Topics: Theory & Practice:

Civic Education