Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools

By Harvey Daniels, Steven Zemelman, Arthur Hyde

Book Overview

Mr Brainfright says: It's important to keep a sense of humour at all times, especially when you're being ripped apart by a lion.Mr Brainfright is a teacher at Northwest Southeast Central School. He teaches Grade Five and in his class is a student called Henry McThrottle who likes telling stories. That's me. I'm Henry McThrottle and this is my latest story. It's about an evil pencil, a runaway lion, an avalanche and falling out of windows. I hope you like it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325007446
• ISBN13: 9780325007441
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

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Excellent resource

So far I have only read 2 chapters (as required for a class), but found them very informative. The authors summed up the situation accurately in my mind concerning the political vs. educational viewpoint of assessment. This book is also well written and easy to read. I look forwrd to reading more.

The typewriter or the computer? Your choice

This book is essential to recognizing that if we want to prepare our kids for the world they will actually live in we must teach in a way that prepares them for that world. The requirement in teaching and learning today is to produce thinking students who can read and write and compute while discriminating between fact and fiction; students who can seek new vistas of solutions and ask questions that offer new possibilities! Our world demands not rote facts and content but how to use knowledge to evaluate new insights, directions and solutions. It all begins in the classrooms with teachers who inspire students. Sadly, there are still many classrooms that are teacher directed with passive learners. The book offers specific strategies that when increased can re-engage, motivate and inspire our students today. I believe eager, motivated and inspired students is essential for our world's future!

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Great Resource

This book is a really good resource for teachers. I recommend it as as a textbook for courses that prepare teachers for certification.