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Best Practice New Standards for Teac 2ND Edition

by Steven Zemelman

Best Practice New Standards for Teac 2ND Edition Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

In its original edition, Best Practice was the first book to summarize the emerging standards of state-of-the-art teaching, offering practical descriptions of instructional excellence across the curriculum. Now, in this extensively revised and expanded second edition, we find updated descriptions of progressive teaching in six subject areas: reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, and the arts.

New and revised features include:

  • thorough coverage of all major national standards projects, including a dozen key documents released since 1993
  • a critical review and chronology of recent school reforms, with a balanced look at the fractious standards movement itself
  • updated chapters on reading and writing that incorporate the new NCTE and IRA standards
  • a retrospective on the NCTM standards, based on a decade of attempted implementation
  • a look at the destructive impact politics has had on history and social studies curriculums
  • a new chapter on Best Practice in the arts, with an emphasis on K-12 curriculum integration
  • many new classroom stories.
While the second edition draws upon official standards documents from a disparate array of leading professional groups, it nonetheless reveals a surprising and encouraging level of agreement: The consensus is that students learn best in schools that are student centered, experiential, democratic, and collaborative - yet rigorously challenging. Following Best Practice, we may yet attain this goal.

Synopsis:

gressive teaching in six subject areas: reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, and the arts.

Synopsis:

In this extensively revised and expanded second edition, we find updated descriptions of progressive teaching in six subject areas: reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, and the arts.

About the Author

STEVEN ZEMELMAN is Director of the Center for City Schools, National-Louis University, and also directs the Illinois Writing Project.HARVEY DANIELS has been a city and suburban classroom teacher, and now serves a professor of interdisciplinary studies at National-Louis University in Chicago. In language arts, Smokey is best known for his work on student book clubs, as recounted in Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups. His book has been credited with starting the "book club boom" in classrooms around the countrytoday, millions of American students are engaged in student-led book discussion groups. Daniels is also co-author of A Community of Writers, which describes a balanced writing program, blending strong teacher-directed lessons with genuinely student-driven workshops. His latest book, Subjects Matter addresses reading in the content areas. Through the Center for City Schools, Harvey works with a network of 15 improving elementary schools in Chicago. In 1996, Daniels co-founded the citys first new high school in 30 years, named for and designed on the p

Table of Contents

Contents:

:Renewing Our Schools: An Emerging Consensus

Best Practice in Reading

Best Practice in Writing

Best Practice in Mathematics

Best Practice in Science

Best Practice in Social Studies

Best Practice in Visual Art, Music, Dance, and Theatre

Classroom Structures for Best Practice

Making the Transition

But What About Evaluation, Test Scores, Tracking Special Students, Classroom Management, Parents, and Other Concerns?

Yes, but . . . Will It Work in City Schools?

Product Details

ISBN:
9780325000916
Subtitle:
New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools
Author:
Zemelman, Steven
Author:
Daniels, Harvey
Author:
Hyde, Arthur
Publisher:
Heinemann
Location:
Portsmouth, NH :
Subject:
Education
Subject:
Teaching Methods & Materials - General
Subject:
Teaching
Subject:
Educational change -- United States.
Copyright:
Edition Number:
2
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Publication Date:
19980813
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
328
Dimensions:
9.00x6.06x.66 in. .97 lbs.

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