High-Stakes Teaching - Practices That Improve Student Learning (Paperback)

Based upon the research of 45 interviews conducted in Texas and Arkansas, High-Stakes Teaching presents strategies that successfully blend child-centered and test-centered teaching into one focus, creating a consistently high-quality instructional environment. The teachers described offer their students an invitation to enter the realm of learning expectantly. Through their words, we visualize the educational scaffolding process, as students foster a love and an appreciation of critical thinking that promises to remain long after the last test question has been answered. Best practices emerge and are shared with the reader. Reflective questions and commentaries provide educators an opportunity to investigate their own philosophies of accountability testing and its place in the classroom. This study offers the support and guidelines necessary to break the cycle of 'teaching to the test.' Let each educator teach so that every child can become an engaged learner, an explorer, an individual who recognizes and respects the opportunities available from gaining a real education that is not merely a cookie-cutter mantra.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Education
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	September 2008
Authors:	Terri Hebert • Sherry Durham
Foreword by:	Debbie Silver
Dimensions:	217 x 141 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	132
ISBN-13:	978-1-57886-881-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Teacher training Promotions
LSN:	1-57886-881-5
Barcode:	9781578868810

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