An edition of What to Look for in a Classroom (1998)

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An edition of What to Look for in a Classroom (1998)

What to look for in a classroom

and other essays

1st ed.

by

  • 2 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

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Jossey-Bass
Language
English
Pages
289

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Subjects

Classroom management, Teacher-student relationships, Teachers, Learning, Teaching, School management and organization, Apprentissage, Enseignement, Administration scolaire, Classes (Éducation), Relations maîtres-élèves, Enseignants, Conduite

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What to Look for in a Classroom: And Other Essays
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What to look for in a classroom: and other essays
1998, Jossey-Bass
in English - 1st ed.
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Table of Contents

The limits of teaching skills
The trouble with school uniforms
Beyond discipline
How not to teach values : a critical look at character education
Resistance to cooperative learning : making sense of its deletion and dilution
"A lot of fat kids who don't like to read" : the effects of Pizza Hut's Book it! program and other reading incentives
Grading : the issue is not how but why
Grade inflation and other red herrings
Only for my kid : how privileged parents undermine school reform
Suffer the restless children
The truth about self-esteem
Television and children : reviewing the evidence
The five-hundred-pound gorilla
The false premises of school choice plans
Students don't "work" they learn
The littlest customers : TQM goes to school
Caring kids : the role of the schools
Choices for children : why and how to let students decide
What to look for in a classroom.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
371.1
Library of Congress
LB1775 .K643 1998

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Pagination
xiv, 289 p. ;
Number of pages
289

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OL365114M
Internet Archive
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078794453X
LCCN
98025426
OCLC/WorldCat
98025426
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897191
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3917853

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"We are in love with skills."

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