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Here is an antidote to the stifling academic grind brought on by
accountability testing. It demonstrates how mastery of skills can
be a joy rather than a chore and describes in detail a highly
successful program of structured skill-mastery centers that engage
students independently while the teacher works closely with a small
group. This system of managing the classroom helps the teacher
provide materials that match the many achievement levels of
children in the classroom. Typically in use for 60-90 minutes in a
school day, up to four days a week, the system works well with the
whole language or the guided practice approaches to reading. The
program, developed by Carolyn Lawrence, is being used successfully
throughout 63 elementary schools in one Florida school district.
Many of the schools are nationally recognized for their achievement
in test scores. The ideas in this book are simple, clear, and ready
to use to bring back excitement, freedom, and smiles to children in
their classroom life. Students are eager to get to the skill
practice work in the mastery centers, largely because they get to
use a variety of manipulative materials matched to their levels.
These materials are inexpensive, readily available and described in
the book. This book will be of interest to professors of education,
superintendents, curriculum and instruction educators, principals,
teachers, and parents.
Here is an antidote to the stifling academic grind brought on by
accountability testing. It demonstrates how mastery of skills can
be a joy rather than a chore and describes in detail a highly
successful program of structured skill-mastery centers that engage
students independently while the teacher works closely with a small
group. This system of managing the classroom helps the teacher
provide materials that match the many achievement levels of
children in the classroom. Typically in use for 60-90 minutes in a
school day, up to four days a week, the system works well with the
whole language or the guided practice approaches to reading. The
program, developed by Carolyn Lawrence, is being used successfully
throughout 63 elementary schools in one Florida school district.
Many of the schools are nationally recognized for their achievement
in test scores. The ideas in this book are simple, clear, and ready
to use to bring back excitement, freedom, and smiles to children in
their classroom life. Students are eager to get to the skill
practice work in the mastery centers, largely because they get to
use a variety of manipulative materials matched to their levels.
These materials are inexpensive, readily available and described in
the book. This book will be of interest to professors of education,
superintendents, curriculum and instruction educators, principals,
teachers, and parents.
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