Frank Thoms

Exciting Classrooms

Practical Information to Ensure Student Success

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Frank Thoms writes with passion to invite principals and teachers to make changes that will allow all students to succeed. In this book he urges them to reconsider traditional practices in light of today's media-driven culture and digitally wired students. Exciting Classrooms is sensitive to the challenges schools face and is relentless in offering strategies to meet these challenges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781475823028
• ISBN-10: 1475823029
• Artikelnr.: 43042643

Autorenporträt

Frank Thoms has been an innovative public and private school teacher known for his unique ideas and ability to connect with colleagues, students and parents. He has taught in four countries: the US, England, Mexico, and Russia and the former Soviet Union and has served as a consultant in more than one hundred-twenty-five schools.

Inhaltsangabe

Meet Dan Hilliard Introduction I: What Can We Do Immediately? 1 Implement
10-2 Thinking 2 Instill Skills 3 Teach Literacy 4 Design Invitations 5 Make
Meaning II: How Can We Expand Our Teaching Practice? 6 See the Big Picture
7 Search for Wisdom 8 Stay Current 9 Seek the Higher Road III: What Must We
Change? 10 Abolish Tracking 11 Abandon the Crabs in the Cage 12 Stop the
Interruptions 13 End One-Size-Fits-All Teaching IV: What Can We Learn from
Beyond the Culture of Schools? 14 Become a Gadfly 15 Leverage Tipping
Points 16 Teach As If 17 Take the Long View 18 Imagine the Ideal 19 Invoke
the Cosmos V: How Do We Find Our Calling? 20 Grow Our Seeds 21 Rethink Our
Philosophy 22 Achieve Our Dreams 23 Become Stakeholders 24 Begin at the End
CODA: Make a Difference EPILOGUE: Hidden Expectations APPENDIX: Teaching
Manifesto Index Acknowledgments About the Author