ERIC Number: ED532944
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 150
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: ISBN-978-1-4166-1384-8
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Minding the Achievement Gap One Classroom at a Time
Pollock, Jane E.; Ford, Sharon; Black, Margaret M.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Do teachers have the power to close achievement gaps? Here's a book that boldly claims they do and lays out a blueprint for how to do something now to help students who are falling short of standards. Regardless of the student population you need to address--English language learners, special education, or just the unmotivated and hard to teach--this book equips you with planning, teaching, and assessment practices that support more effective learning in every student. Learn how to make small, specific adjustments every day, on a classroom-by-classroom basis, to: (1) Improve all students' access to, interaction with, and mastery of lesson content; (2) Design daily lessons that clarify learning goals and use high-yield learning strategies; and (3) Encourage students to seek feedback and reflect on their progress. By focusing on teaching habits that are deliberate and purposeful, the authors help you: (1) Reach academically at-risk students who don't "do school" well and appear unmotivated by increasing their engagement and helping them become master learners; (2) Boost the academic achievement of English language learners by addressing content and language goals and monitoring their progress toward both language acquisition and knowledge acquisition during pull-out or inclusion classroom time; and (3) Improve the performance of special education students by synchronizing teaching and assessment between co-teachers or intensifying instruction and feedback in a pull-out or resource classroom. This book is companion to the ASCD best-seller "Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time," which explains the four critical areas of teaching and describes how to align teaching with an updated synthesis of proven best practices. [For the related book, "Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time," see ED509098.]
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Feedback (Response), Learning Strategies, At Risk Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Special Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Instructional Improvement, Student Motivation, Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Mastery Learning, Educational Objectives, Access to Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Books; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
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