Doing School

Author: Denise Clark Pope
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300130589
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
This book offers a highly revealing and troubling view of today's high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Denise Pope, veteran teacher and curriculum expert, follows five motivated and successful students through a school year, closely shadowing them and engaging them in lengthy reflections on their school experiences. What emerges is a double-sided picture of school success. On the one hand, these students work hard in school, participate in extracurricular activities, serve their communities, earn awards and honours, and appear to uphold school values. But on the other hand, they feel that in order to get ahead they must compromise their values and manipulate the system by scheming, lying, and cheating. In short, they do school, that is, they are not really engaged with learning nor can they commit to such values as integrity and community. The words and actions of these five students - two boys and three girls from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds - underscore the frustrations of being caught in a grade trap that pins future success to high grades and test scores. Their stories raise critical questions that are too important for parents, educators, and community leaders to ignore. Are schools cultivating an environment that promotes intellectual curiosity, cooperation, and integrity? Or are they fostering anxiety, deception, and hostility? Do today's schools inadvertently impede the very values they claim to embrace? Is the success that current assessment practices measure the kind of success we want for our children?

What DO Teachers Do (after YOU Leave School)?

Author: Anne Bowen
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN: 1467742392
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
This humorous picture book answers the question all kids want to know?what do teachers do when the bell rings at three? Once the students go home, teachers finally have the run of the school. They skate down the halls, have a food fight in the cafeteria, even mix up wild concoctions in the science lab with disastrous results! All night long, teachers are busy goofing off at school. Kids will never look at their teachers the same way after reading this book!

Bullying at School

Author: Dan Olweus
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118695801
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Bullying at School is the definitive book on bullying/victim problems in school and on effective ways of counteracting and preventing such problems.

How Do Dinosaurs Go To School?

Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780008638214
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The School of Doing

Author: Isaac Klein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692953679
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Olympia Dukakis, Sam Waterston, and many more lend their voices to The School of Doing, a comprehensive guide to the craft and teachings of internationally renowned stage director and educator Gerald Freedman, including lessons on acting, directing, text analysis, comedy technique, camera technique, Shakespeare, musical theater, design, pedagogy, and the business itself. Foreword by Mandy Patinkin.

Starting School: Do I Have to Go to School?

Author: Pat Thomas
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1526305216
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31

Book Description
In simple and reassuring terms, this entertaining book explores for young children aged approximately 3-6 what it is like to start school and how the reader might feel about it. Discussion boxes offer an adult opportunities to discuss the issues directly with their child audience. Charmingly clear illustrations give readers immediate access to complex situations and feelings and provide further stimulus for discussion. Notes for teachers and parents, plus suggested further resources, help adults to make the most of the learning opportunities inherent in the book. Written by a trained psychotherapist, journalist and parent, and illustrated by a very experienced children's book artist, this is part of an acclaimed and successful series of picture-book non-fiction for Early Years.

This Is Service Design Doing

Author: Marc Stickdorn
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 1491927135
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1156

Book Description
How can you establish a customer-centric culture in an organization? This is the first comprehensive book on how to actually do service design to improve the quality and the interaction between service providers and customers. You'll learn specific facilitation guidelines on how to run workshops, perform all of the main service design methods, implement concepts in reality, and embed service design successfully in an organization. Great customer experience needs a common language across disciplines to break down silos within an organization. This book provides a consistent model for accomplishing this and offers hands-on descriptions of every single step, tool, and method used. You'll be able to focus on your customers and iteratively improve their experience. Move from theory to practice and build sustainable business success.

What Should Danny Do?

Author: Adir Levy
Publisher: Power to Choose
ISBN: 9780692848388
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Danny is a Superhero-in-Training learning about his most important superpower of all, "The Power to Choose." Written in a "Choose Your Own Story" style, your child will have a blast trying to reach all nine endings. And in the process, they will learn some of life's most important lessons.

Learning by Doing

Author: Anne Rogovin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780687000852
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Learning By Doing is a book of activities for use by parents and teachers of children. Trained as a special education teacher, Anne Rogovin has long held that children learn best by doing--a hands-on approach that reinforces their growing knowledge base--and that the principles of learning are the same although the rates of learning are different. "Learning by doing" has been used in recent years to describe the way adults learn best as well--enhanced by adults learning to use computers and other technologies. The book includes sections on science, health, language, reading, music, art, and much more.

The Whale Done School

Author: James Ballard
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468595377
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
THE WHALE DONE SCHOOL is the third in the Whale Done! series, focusing the proven power of positive attention on the process of educating children. Based on an actual school-turnaround story, the fable demonstrates how students' behavior and academic performance improves dramatically when teachers systematically employ the science of training killer whales -- i.e., building trust, giving lots of attention to what their students do right, and redirecting wrong behavior to positive outcomes.