Teaching Content Outrageously: How to Captivate All Students and Accelerate Learning, Grades 4-12 - Brossura

Pogrow, Stanley

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ISBN 10: 0470180269 ISBN 13: 9780470180266

Casa editrice: Wiley, 2008

Riassunto

A powerful instructional method for "hooking" students on academic learning

Drawing from a teaching model designed to banish boredom and student apathy, this book explains how dramatic practices can serve as powerful tools for enlivening lessons and captivating students, even the most resistant learners. Filled with intriguing classroom examples, Pogrow shows how any teacher can make use of dramatic techniques, such as surprise, humor, fantasy, role plays, games, and simulations to create standards-based content lessons that are riveting, effective, and meaningful. The author explains how to design such lessons into any content area.

Stanley Pogrow (San Francisco, CA), a noted authority on teaching practices for disadvantaged students, is professor of educational leadership at San Francisco State University, where he coordinates the Educational Leadership for Equity Program.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Stanley Pogrow, Ph.D., is professor of Educational Leadership at¿San Francisco State University. He is best known for developing the HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) Program for accelerating the learning of underperforming Title I (economically disadvantaged) and special education students.

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Raising the Grade

"This is an excellent book. Governor Wise uses a very effective blend of hard data, clear examples, vivid metaphors, and personal anecdotes to make the case for high school reform—and the specific actions that need to be taken. Every policymaker from the schoolhouse to the statehouse, and from the classroom to Congress, should read this book."
—Gaston Caperton, president of College Board andformer governor, West Virginia

Written by Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and current president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, Raising the Grade describes the alarming cost of the nation's long-time neglect of secondary education. At a time when technology and postsecondary education requirements in the workplace are rising dramatically, the literacy skills of adolescents are not keeping pace. With most federal dollars targeted to elementary schools and higher education, few resources are allocated to improve high schools, especially to address the achievement gap threatening nearly 6 million students at risk of dropping out every year. Raising the Grade is rooted in the stories of real Americans whose high school experiences failed to engage or adequately prepare them for work or college.

In Raising the Grade, Bob Wise calls for epic changes in how we invest in and support our secondary education system. Pointing to the many model public high schools that are serving our students well, he spells out practical solutions for reform, especially at the federal level, to give all students a quality high school education. Issuing a call to action- he asks every American who cares about the fate of our nation to jo in the growing movement to revitalize our secondary education system and recognize the moral and economic imperative to ensure a better future for our youth.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wiley
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0470180269
• ISBN 13: 9780470180266
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile