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Maurice Gibbons is education professor emeritus, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia and a former teacher of grades 4 through 13. In his university position he specialized in the development of innovative educational programs, including the internationally celebrated Walkabout program for the transition of youth to adulthood. He has written books and journal articles on innovative education and self-directed learning and currently speaks and consults throughout Canada and the United States Contact Self-Directed Learning at www.mauricegibbons.com.

This book offers teachers and principals an innovative program for customizing schooling to the learning needs of individual students and for motivating them to decide what and how they should learn. The program can be introduced in stages in any middle or high school classroom and enables students of diverse abilities to design and pursue independent course work, special projects, creative presentations, and apprenticeships. The book provides sample course units, lessons, contracts, and assessment instruments and features examples from public schools. Gibbons is education professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR