Why Fly That Way?: Linking Community and Academic Achievement - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807739804 ISBN 13: 9780807739808

Verlag: Teachers College Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Crucial to the public debate about schools, curriculum, testing, academic standards, and teacher training are the voices of successful teachers, like Kathy Greely, who speak to the dangers of an overemphasis on standardized testing and a punitive, back-to-basics approach. This work is a chronicle of a year in the life of a school classroom. The author provides an alternative model of education and shows how a strong and supportive community is essential in helping students reach their highest potential. Included in this account are: specific projects that explain in detail critical practices in the classroom; class discussions that show efforts to interweave academic study with personal awareness; excerpts from student journals; and descriptions of daily failures and frustrations, as well as successes and victories.

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Kathy Greeley is a middle school teacher at the Graham and Parks School in Cambridge, MA which recently won the 2000 Disney Learning Partnership Spotlight School Award. A former Conant Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kathy continues to immerse herself in education and community-based projects.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Teachers College Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807739804
• ISBN 13: 9780807739808
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156
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