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Focus : elevating the essentials to radically improve student learning / Mike Schmoker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmoker, Michael J., author.
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Effective teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Alexandria, Virginia : ASCD, [2018]
- Summary:
- This book extends and updates the case that schools could be on the cusp of swift, unparalleled improvements by focusing on the most essential, widely acknowledged, evidence-based practices that could have more impact than all other initiatives combined. These are: simple, coherent curricula; straightforward, traditional literacy practices; and lessons built around just a few effective elements of good teaching.
- Contents:
- Foreword to the Seconnd edition: The importance of evidence
- Introduction
- First things first: What we teach, how we teach and literacy
- The importance of simplicity, clarity, and priority
- What we teach
- How we teach
- Curriculum, instruction, and literacy in the content areas
- English language arts made simple
- Social Studies with reading and writing at the core
- Redefining inquiry in science
- Making math meaningful.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781416626374
- 1416626379
- 9781416626367
- 1416626360
- OCLC:
- 1029094948
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