Accelerating the Learning of All Students - Cultivating Culture Change in Schools, Classrooms and Individuals

This book provides a vivid description of efforts to accelerate the learning of three populations of students?those identified as gifted, those identified as low-achieving, and all students?examining the assumptions shaping school, classroom, and individual efforts to do it.

List of contents

Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Multiple Meanings of Acceleration -- Accelerate = Serving Gifted and Talented Students -- Accelerate = Targeting Low-Achieving Students -- Accelerate = Challenging All Students -- Cultivating Culture Change to Accelerate the Learning of All Students -- Cultivating Acceleration Within School Cultures -- Cultivating Acceleration Within Classroom Cultures -- Individuals as Cultivators: Acting on Changed Assumptions Within and Beyond the School

About the author

Finnan, Christine | Swanson, Julie D.

Summary

This book provides a vivid description of efforts to accelerate the learning of three populations of students—those identified as gifted, those identified as low-achieving, and all students—examining the assumptions shaping school, classroom, and individual efforts to do it.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Finnan, Christine Swanson Finnan, Finnan Christine, Julie Swanson, Julie D Swanson, Julie D. Swanson, Swanson Julie D.
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.2000
• EAN: 9780813390505
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-9050-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Renewing American Schools
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Curricula, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Schools and pre-schools, Curriculum planning and development