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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455482703321

Autore

Teel Karen Manheim

Titolo

Making school count : promoting urban student motivation and success / / Karen Manheim Teel and Andrea DeBruin-Parecki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001

ISBN

9786610401345

1-134-58132-7

1-280-40134-6

0-203-13427-3

0-203-17099-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DeBruin-PareckiAndrea

Disciplina

371.829/96073

Soggetti

African American students - Education

Motivation in education - United States

Educational innovations - United States

Action research in education - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-120) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword by Martin V. Covington; Acknowledgements; Life in an urban classroom: where dreams and realities collide; The personal journey of a teacher: Karen's story; Developing teaching strategies that honor and motivate diverse learners; The culture of the school; Teacher action research; Realizing student potential with alternative strategies; What gets in the way of student success?; Taking on the role of detective: teacher's response to struggling students; Turning student aspirations into realities; Appendices; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

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.