Teaching the Way Children Learn

Informationen zum Autor Beverly Falk is Professor and Head of the Graduate Program in Early Childhood Education at The School of Education, The City College of the City University of New York. Klappentext This inspiring book reveals the invisible inner landscapes of how educators teach children from a variety of backgrounds to meet the challenging expectations of todays standards without sacrificing support for their developmental needs or their diverse ways of learning. Featuring images of possibility from an urban school, it describes effective, child-centered teaching in pre-K through fifth grade. Each image is analyzed for the educational decisions that took place to make the experience effective, including the planning involved, the classroom environment and routines that supported it, how standards were addressed, how the teacher assessed student learning to shape instruction, and the impact on students. This practical resource is a must-read for pre- and in-service teachers and anyone committed to helping inner-city children succeed in school and beyond. Zusammenfassung Featuring 'images of possibility' from an urban school! this book describes effective! child-centered teaching in pre-K through fifth grade. It contains images which are analyzed for the educational decisions that take place to make the experience effective! including the planning involved! the classroom environment and routines that support it.

Product details

• Authors: Beverly Falk
• Assisted by: Ann Lieberman (Editor), Joseph P Mcdonald (Editor), Patricia A Wasley (Editor), Patricia A. Wasley (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2008
• EAN: 9780807749289
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-4928-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: On School Reform; Series on School Reform (Paper; Series on School Reform; On School Reform; School Reform; Series on School Reform (Paper
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system