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Making School Count Promoting Urban Student Motivation and Success
142 Pages
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Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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Making School Count reports on four years of classroom research in which alternative teaching strategies, designed to motivate under-achieving inner-city, African-American middle school students were used and evaluated. The book offers insights into the discrepancy between students' academic dreams (their high performance aspirations) and the realities of their classroom performance. Issues... Read more
Chapter 1 Life in an urban classroom; Chapter 2 The personal journey of a teacher; Chapter 3 Developing teaching strategies that honor and motivate diverse learners; Chapter 4 The culture of the school; Chapter 5 Teacher action research; Chapter 6 Realizing student potential with alternative strategies; Chapter 7 What gets in the way of student success?; Chapter 8 Taking on the role of detective; Chapter 9 Turning student aspirations into realities;
Biography
Karen Manheim Teel is a classroom teacher researcher in the San Francisco East Bay area, teaching 7th and 8th grade history. She received her doctorate from U.C. Berkeley in 1993 and a Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1994.,
Andrea DeBruin-Parecki is an assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Northern Iowa. She has been actively involved with culturally diverse schools and communities through her research in family literacy, authentic assessment and motivation.
'I would highly recommend this volume. I will use it on my Masters level course Critical Issues in Education.' - Sam Hollingsworth, San Jose State University
