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Best Practice, Third Edition: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools
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Best Practice, Third Edition: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schoolsby Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Unrealistic Read, February 27, 2006 Reviewer:Marlaine S. Redman "Kindergarten bookie" (Kansas City, MO. USA) - Overall, I can't say this book was that terrible, however because it was somewhere in the 300s page wise, I was easily burned out on finishing it. I have noticed that good teaching books get the point across in a little over 100 pages, this one repeats itself so much that I was ready to stab myself in the eye after the 3rd chapter. This is one of those "pefect world" books that makes you question when the last time the authors were in the classroom. It seems to center around mostly secondary situations. The authors tell stories about great classrooms but never explain how to achieve them, or they talk about strategies that everyone does as if it was something they thought up themselves yesterday. My main quesion for them, how do you expect teachers to know how to teach this way? Most secondary ed students take barely any methods courses and mostly just subject area courses, they teach the way there were taught.... taking notes.
Book Description
Recognizing that the themes of American education have changed dramatically, Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde reconvened, and their new edition provides fresh, inspiring examples of state-of-the-art teaching methods in action.
About The Author
STEVEN ZEMELMAN is Director of Professional Development at leadership for Quality Education, a school-reform organization in Chicago, and also directs the Illinois Writing Project. Together, Daniels and Zemelman have written or coauthored five books and videos with Heinemann, including Subjects Matter (2004), Rethinking High School and its companion video (2001), and A Community of Writers (1988). HARVEY DANIELS has been a city and suburban classroom teacher, and now serves as professor of reading, language, secondary education and 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, and his new title, Minilessons for literature Circles. Daniels is also co-author of Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading, which shows how students can better understand and remember what they read in science, math, and social studies, as well as English classes. Bringing together recent comprehension research with practical classroom strategies, Subjects Matter shows how schools can grow lifelong readers across the curriculum. Smokey also co-wrote A Community of Writers, which describes a balanced writing program, blending strong teacher-directed lessons with genuinely student ARTHUR HYDE is a professor of mathematics education at NationalLouis University. While a high school mathematics teacher in Philadelphia, he obtained doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Pennsylvania. He has conducted extensive professional development programs in Chicago and surrounding school districts.
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