Facing History
Progressive educator Mary Groesch reflects upon her thirty years of teaching through sharing Facing History: The Long Road to Freedom, one of the many curriculum units she wrote during her tenure as a teacher. The main elements of progressive practice are evidenced throughout the unit: integrated subjects, allowing students to pursue interests, to work in cooperative groups, to belong to a classroom community, to share their learning, and to have the arts as part of the larger unit of study. Readers will learn how to create progressive units of their own. Faced with more traditional expectations, readers will learn how to facilitate projects to allow their students to experience progressive practice.
Mary Groesch
Celebrated educator, Mary Groesch has written about her journey of becoming a progressive teacher through modeling and experience. She spent a year with Wanda Lincoln, a master teacher, who taught Language Arts Methods at National College of Education and was a fifth/sixth multi-age grades teacher at the Baker Demonstration School. She also traveled to England to observe the British Open School. Following her training, she taught in international schools in South America and was given extensive opportunities for teaching adults and multi-age classes. Returning to the United States, she was fortunate to get a job in Winnetka, Illinois, a truly progressive district, where she taught for over two decades.
Austin Macauley Publishers
