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Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools : 50 Proven Strategies for Helping Underachieving Students and Improving Schools.
<Strong>Praise for the first edition: </strong>""Barr and Parrett have provided educators, policy makers, and parents with an outstanding resource. If you're serious about leaving no child behind, this is one book you need to read.""
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Part I
- Accept the Challenge to Teach all Students
- Chapter 1
- Confront the Challenges
- Our Schools have Changed
- Who are the at-Risk Students?
- Compelling Conclusions
- Chapter 2
- How Schools Fail Students and Manufacture Low Performance
- Destructive School Policies, Programs, and Practices
- The Myths That Perpetuate Ineffective Practices
- Chapter 3
- Establish the Commitment to Educate Children and Youth at Risk
- Take a Stand
- Lessons Learned
- Low-Performing Schools can Improve
- Part II
- 50 Proven Strategies for Schools and Classrooms
- Chapter 4
- Understand the at-Risk Student
- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers
- Strategy #1: Recognize That any Student May Become at Risk
- Strategy #2: Predict Youth Behavior Based on Developmental Assets
- Strategy #3: Appreciate the Resilient Student
- Strategy #4: Address the Differences between Boys and Girls
- Chapter 5
- Educate Poor and Culturally Diverse Students
- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers
- Strategy #5: Connect Culturally for Effective Teaching and Learning
- Strategy #6: Work with the Externally Centered Student
- Strategy #7: Understand the Problems of Low-Income Students
- Strategy #8: Eliminate Ineffective and Destructive Interventions
- Strategy #9: Use Effective Programs for Teaching Low-Income Students
- Chapter 6
- Establish Priorities That Focus on Student Learning
- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers
- Strategy #10: Develop a Comprehensive Plan
- Strategy #11: Build a Profile by Collecting and Using Data
- Strategy #12: Set Goals, Targets, and Timelines
- Strategy #13: Create Time for Collaboration, Planning, and Development.
- Strategy #14: Facilitate Continuous Improvement: The Critical Importance of Results-Driven Leadership
- Chapter 7
- Collaborate with Parents and Families
- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers
- Strategy #15: Encourage Parent and Family Engagement
- Strategy #16: Build Effective Partnerships among Families, Schools, and the Community
- Chapter 8
- Create Caring Classrooms, Schools, and Communities of Support
- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers
- Strategy #17: Create a Community of Support
- Strategy #18: Create a Common Vision
- Strategy #19: Establish Alternative Schools
- Strategy #20: Develop Small Schools and Schools-Within-Schools
- Strategy #21: Provide Effective Transitions
- Chapter 9
- Create a Climate of Respect in Schools and Classrooms
- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers
- Strategy #22: Recognize Early Warning Signs
- Strategy #23: Bully-Proof Classrooms and Schools
- Strategy #24: Create Reentry Opportunities for Expelled Students
- Chapter 10
- Expect High Academic Performance
- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers
- Strategy #25: Motivate Students
- Strategy #26: Teach to Multiple Intelligences
- Strategy #27: Confront Tracking and Retention Practices
- Strategy #28: Initiate Targeted Professional Development
- Strategy #29: Create Career-Theme Schools and High School Academic Majors
- Strategy #30: Help at-Risk Students Pass High-Stakes Tests
- Chapter 11
- Teach all Students to Read
- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers
- Strategy #31: Guarantee That Every Child Learns to Read
- Strategy #32: Implement Effective Literacy Practices and Programs K-12
- Strategy #33: Employ One-on-One Tutoring
- Strategy #34: Start Early
- Strategy #35: Redesign Grades K-3.
- Strategy #36: Continuously Assess Reading Progress
- Chapter 12
- Select Results-Driven Instructional and Assessment Practices
- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers
- Strategy #37: Personalize Instruction
- Strategy #38: Recognize the Critical Importance of an Aligned Curriculum
- Strategy #39: Select Research-based Instructional Practices
- Strategy #40: Use Homework Effectively
- Strategy #41: Require Student Portfolios, Projects, and Performance Exhibitions
- Strategy #42: Incorporate Technology Across the Curriculum
- Strategy #43: Create Assessment-Literate Classrooms
- Chapter 13
- Support Social and Emotional Growth
- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers
- Strategy #44: Create Student Mentoring Programs
- Strategy #45: Establish Service Learning Programs
- Strategy #46: Teach Peer Mediation
- Strategy #47: Build Self-Esteem and Respect through Student Leadership
- Chapter 14
- Use Community Resources and Services
- Unconventional Wisdom: What Works for Experienced Teachers
- Strategy #48: Embrace the Community as a Classroom
- Strategy #49: Develop Communitywide, Extended-Day Programs
- Strategy #50: Become a Full-Service School
- Part III
- Summon the will to Leave No Child Behind
- Chapter 15
- The Inalienable Right to a Quality Education
- With Liberty and Justice for Some?
- The Emergent National Consensus: No Child Left Behind
- Breaking Free from Ignorance
- The Fifty Strategies
- 50 Strategies Suggested Reading
- References
- Index.