Teaching Matters
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Teaching Matters

Stories from Inside City Schools

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eBook - ePub

Teaching Matters

Stories from Inside City Schools

About this book

As public schools become increasingly embattled by budget shortfalls, crowded buildings, and ever-more-rigid curricula, the burden of these restrictions has drastically changed the way children are expected to learn. Nowhere is this more obvious or more devastating than classrooms in high-need urban areas. Drawing upon teachers' firsthand experiences in some of today's most demanding schools, leading education experts Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich provide an enlightening account of what our students really need—and how teachers are stepping up to provide what state standards and political posturing cannot.

Teaching Matters takes us into a variety of classrooms to witness the art of teaching at its most creative and effective, with a focus on early childhood and elementary school. We follow educators as they strive to change systems that fail to address the needs of their students, from efforts to break the silence about homophobia in schools and multipronged strategies to build stronger relationships with immigrant families to the modification of ineffective curriculum to foster the growth of the "whole child." By confronting many misconceptions about urban education and school reform, Falk and Blumenreich provide a crucial insider's look at some of the most challenging and relevant questions in education today.

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Information

Publisher
The New Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781595584908
eBook ISBN
9781595587121

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Also by Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. FOREWORD
  8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  9. INTRODUCTION: QUESTIONING, SEARCHING, LEARNING FROM TEACHING
  10. SECTION ONE: INSIDE CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING
  11. SECTION TWO: INSIDE SCHOOL/FAMILY PARTNERSHIPS
  12. SECTION THREE: INSIDE DIFFERENTIATED TEACHING
  13. SECTION FOUR: INSIDE THE CONSTRAINTS OF URBAN TEACHING
  14. CONCLUSION: INQUIRY AND POWERFUL URBAN TEACHING
  15. APPENDIX A: HOW THIS BOOK WAS CONSTRUCTED
  16. APPENDIX B: ELICITING TEACHER-RESEARCHERS’ RESPONSES
  17. NOTES