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Title: Best Practice : New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools by Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, Arthur Hyde ISBN: 0-325-00091-3 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 13 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent - Let's use research to guide our practice!!
Comment: Too often we base our educational practice on ideology, folk lore, or tradition. Education has suffered from this. We have also suffered from those who would use a business paradigm to make educational decisions. Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde of synthesized the major research findings related to effective teaching in various academic areas. They present their findings in a way that is very easy to understand and apply. This should be required reading for all principals, teachers, school board members, governors, presidents, and legislators.
Rating: 1
Summary: Best Practices or Effective Practices?
Comment: "Best Practice" appears to be the latest whole language code word. Many of the "best practices" suggested here have little or no solid foundation on convergent, juried, replicable research. To say that these practices make common sense is simply not evidence enough to implement them in our schools. For the first time since the Progressivism of the 1930's educational reform is not coming from our colleges and universities. They have, after all, perpetuated the "best practices" that have been failing our children since they were first widely implemented in our public schools in the 1950's. Reform is coming from political leaders, as in the "No Child Left Behind" legislation, and scientific researchers who have been commissioned by Congress. Whole school reform that is based on scientifically based, EFFECTIVE practices demonstrate positive change in the first year, not in the three to five years indicated in this book. The "Report of the National Reading Panel" would be a good place to start looking for effective school reform practices. This writer is the Coordinator of Instruction for a large, urban school system.
Rating: 3
Summary: Best Practice Is Common Sense
Comment: As part of my school's curriculum committee, Best Practices is on our assigned reading list. After reading the introduction I was shocked to find the book not only interesting, but also easy to read. The book's main premise is that school reform, what ever direction a school chooses to take, is a process, not a magic potion. Meaningful school reform, according to the authors, could and prbably should take at least three years. No one standardized test and no one curriculum can be a cure-all for improving student performance. Best Practice tells how to begin the process of reform to produce improved student performance in an environment dedicated to that process.
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Title: Methods That Matter: Six Structures for Best Practice Classrooms by Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar ISBN: 1571100822 Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $26.25 |
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Title: Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement by Robert J. Marzano, Debra Pickering, Jane E. Pollock ISBN: 0871205041 Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe ISBN: 013093058X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 28 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.80 |
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Title: Miscue Analysis Made Easy : Building on Student Strengths by Sandra Wilde ISBN: 0325002398 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching by Charlotte Danielson ISBN: 0871202697 Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve Pub. Date: 15 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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