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Teaching Matters : Stories From Inside City Schools by Beverly Falk; Megan Blumenreich; Adesina Abani; Carol Castillo; Joleen Hanlon; Laurie Jagoda; Kisha Pressley; Rory Scott; Beatrice Tinio; Neurys Bonilla; Evelyn Chang, (Teacher); Kanene Holder; Joan O'Brien, (Teacher); Lisa Schaffner; Travis Sloane; Hazel Veras-Gomez; Mary Williams, (Teacher) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Teaching Matters : Stories From Inside City Schools about?
As public schools become increasingly embattled by budget shortfalls, crowded buildings, and ever-more-rigid curricula, the burden of these restrictions has drastically changed the way children are expected to learn. Nowhere is this more obvious or more devastating than classrooms in high-need urban areas. Drawing upon teachers' firsthand experiences in some of today's most demanding schools, leading education experts Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich provide an enlightening account of what our students really need—and how teachers are stepping up to provide what state standards and political posturing cannot. __Teaching Matters__ takes us into a variety of classrooms to witness the art of teaching at its most creative and effective, with a focus on early childhood and elementary school. We follow educators as they strive to change systems that fail to address the needs of their students, from efforts to break the silence about homophobia in schools and multipronged strategies to build stronger relationships with immigrant families to the modification of ineffective curriculum to foster the growth of the "whole child." By confronting many misconceptions about urban education and s
Who reads Teaching Matters : Stories From Inside City Schools?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Beverly Falk; Megan Blumenreich; Adesina Abani; Carol Castillo; Joleen Hanlon; Laurie Jagoda; Kisha Pressley; Rory Scott; Beatrice Tinio; Neurys Bonilla; Evelyn Chang, (Teacher); Kanene Holder; Joan O'Brien, (Teacher); Lisa Schaffner; Travis Sloane; Hazel Veras-Gomez; Mary Williams, (Teacher)
- Publisher
- The New Press : Made available through hoopla
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781595587121
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education, Fiction
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