Inside Teaching

Author: Mary Kennedy
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B002JCSALS

Inside Teaching: How Classroom Life Undermines Reform

Reform the schools, improve teaching: these battle cries of American education have been echoing for twenty years. Download Inside Teaching: How Classroom Life Undermines Reform from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. So why does teaching change so little?

Arguing that too many would-be reformers know nothing about the conflicting demands of teaching, Mary Kennedy takes us into the controlled commotion of the classroom, revealing how painstakingly teachers plan their lessons, and how many different ways things go awry. Teachers try simultaneously to keep track of materials, time, students, and ideas. In their effort to hold all of these things together, they can inadvertently quash students' enthusiasm and miss valuable teachable moments.

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