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

• Autore: Teel Karen Manheim
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (142 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.829/96073
• Soggetto topico: African American students - Education; Motivation in education - United States; Educational innovations - United States; Action research in education - United States
• Altri autori: DeBruin-PareckiAndrea
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Making school count
• ISBN: 1-134-58131-9; 9786610401345; 1-134-58132-7; 1-280-40134-6; 0-203-13427-3; 0-203-17099-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779928803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II