Penny A. Bishop, Susanna W. Pflaum

Reaching and Teaching Middle School Learners

Asking Students to Show Us What Works

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Enhance classroom practice by inviting students to offer feedback on pedagogy, learning styles, and their needs and preferences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Corwin
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 333g
• ISBN-13: 9781412914796
• ISBN-10: 1412914795
• Artikelnr.: 21542857

Autorenporträt

Penny A. Bishop is Assistant Professor and Director of Middle Level Teacher Education at the University of Vermont, Burlington. She earned a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Vermont, and her dissertation on middle grades partner teams received the 1998 Distinguished Dissertation Award from the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Before joining the field of teacher education, Penny was a middle school teacher and an assessment consultant for the Vermont Department of Education. She currently consults with teachers and administrators in the areas of school organization, interdisciplinary and partner teaming, and school change. She is the coauthor of The Power of Two: Partner Teams in Action and coeditor of Living and Learning in the Middle Grades: The Dance Continues. Her articles have appeared in Middle School Journal, Research in Middle Level Education Online, Current Issues in Middle Level Education, and Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Chris Stevenson
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. The Case for Consulting Students
2. The Social Lives of Schools and Classrooms
3. Choice, Action, and Relevance in Curriculum
4. Math Is the Measure
5. Reading in School
6. Inquiring and Communicating in Science and Social Studies
7. Consulting Your Students
References
Index