Teaching What Matters Most by Harvey F Silver

Teaching What Matters Most by Harvey F Silver

Crafting a set of standards that are at once manageable, attainable, and good for all students has been elusive. With 10 years of research and work in more than 300 schools to guide them, Strong, Silver, and Perini offer four standards that will help all students meet the various standards dictated by states, regions, and districts:

* Rigor: helping students make sense of challenging texts and ideas.
* Thought: helping students become adept users of powerful learning disciplines.
* Diversity: helping students understand themselves and others.
* Authenticity: helping students apply what they learn to the real world.

In this book, the authors go beyond simply showing what each standard looks like in various school settings. They provide research-based teaching strategies that can help all students meet each standard along with assessment practices that allow schools and teachers to respond thoughtfully to the diversity of students' needs.

Drawing from the work of educators across the country, the book demonstrates that manageable standards--when married to practical approaches to instruction and assessment--can prepare students to perform well on state tests while preserving the democratic traditions of U.S. education.

Silver, Harvey F.: - Harvey F. Silver, president of Silver Strong & Associates and Thoughtful Education Press, was named one of the 100 most influential teachers in the country. He has conducted numerous workshops for school districts and state education departments throughout the United States. He was the principal consultant for the Georgia Critical Thinking Skills Program and the Kentucky Thoughtful Education Teacher Leadership Program. Silver is the author of several educational bestsellers, including So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences and Teaching Styles and Strategies, both published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Design. With Richard Strong, Silver developed The Thoughtful Classroom--a renowned professional development program based on the commitment to make students as important as standards.

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ISBN 13	9780871205186
ISBN 10	0871205181
Title	Teaching What Matters Most
Author	Harvey F Silver
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
Year published	2001-08-30
Number of pages	277
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.