Discover basic strategies that promote student achievement in low-performing classrooms!
This invaluable research-based guidebook illustrates how quality teaching can overcome the impact of low socioeconomic conditions and improve student performance dramatically. The authors present instructional techniques that require students to speak with skill, write with clarity and purpose, read with a critical eye, and listen with active engagement. Using six practical strategies, educators can overcome the odds and guide learners to success by:
Setting high expectations for all students
Making differentiation part of everything they do
Challenging students to think critically
Insisting on results-oriented goals
Language
English
Pages
104
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Corwin Publishers
Release
January 01, 2005
ISBN
0974741655
ISBN 13
9780974741659
Close the Achievement Gap: Simple Strategies That Work
Discover basic strategies that promote student achievement in low-performing classrooms!
This invaluable research-based guidebook illustrates how quality teaching can overcome the impact of low socioeconomic conditions and improve student performance dramatically. The authors present instructional techniques that require students to speak with skill, write with clarity and purpose, read with a critical eye, and listen with active engagement. Using six practical strategies, educators can overcome the odds and guide learners to success by:
Setting high expectations for all students
Making differentiation part of everything they do
Challenging students to think critically
Insisting on results-oriented goals