Restructuring in the classroom : teaching, learning, and school organization / Richard F. Elmore, Penelope L. Peterson, Sarah J. McCarthey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elmore, Richard F.

Contributor:

Peterson, Penelope L.

McCarthey, Sarah J., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School management and organization--United States--Case studies.

School management and organization.

Learning.

Teachers.

United States.

Educational change--United States--Case studies.

Educational change.

Teachers--United States--Case studies.

Teaching--United States--Case studies.

Teaching.

Learning--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xx, 257 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [1996]

Summary:

Restructuring in the Classroom goes into the classrooms of three elementary schools to take a detailed look at how teachers responded to changes in structure in their schools. The authors interviewed principals, teachers, parents, support staff, and district personnel to produce in-depth case studies of schools at various stages of restructuring, showing what the school had done to change its structure and how those changes had occurred. Selecting four teachers in each school for closer observation and discussion, the authors reveal how those teachers responded to the changes around them in their day-to-day practice in the classroom. They show, for example, how teaching practice is or is not affected by changes in the way students are grouped for learning, in the way teachers relate to groups of students and to each other, and in the way time is allocated to subject matter. The provocative portraits of schools and teachers in Restructuring in the Classroom will give anyone interested in school reform an in-depth picture of what the process of school restructuring looks like from within.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.

ISBN:

078790239X

OCLC:

33439233