Improving the odds : developing powerful teaching practice and a culture of learning in urban high schools
"A counterpoint to the sweeping rhetoric of reform, this book offers a nuanced depiction of the challenges and possibilities at the school and class-room level. Through the experiences of urban high school teachers who partner with their local university, Del Prete provides unique insight into...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Teachers College ,
c2010
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| Series: | The series on school reform
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Framing reform
- 2. Constancy and change in main south high schools
- 3. The teachers, shared concepts and collaborative learning
- 4. Everyone has a seat at the table: Kate Shepard's mathematics learning community
- 5. Adelina Zaimi's Dilemma: calculating the slope of learning
- 6. Jody Bird and the cology of curriculum and teaching
- 7. Putting inquiry into practice: Chris Rea and investigating harmonic motion
- 8. Chad Malone and the muse of authenticity
- 9. Making more from less: ways of knowing history
- 10. Lessons from main south