James W Stigler, James Hiebert

The Teaching Gap

Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ten years after its first publication, "The Teaching Gap" is now in paperback for the first time, and updated with a new Preface and Afterword. Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this book is for teachers, school administrators, policy makers, politicians, and concerned parents.--"Library Journal."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Free Press
• Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781439143131
• ISBN-10: 1439143137
• Artikelnr.: 26016825

Autorenporträt

James Stigler, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at UCLA and Director of the TIMSS video studies, is coauthor of Simon & Schuster's highly praised book The Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education. He lives in Los Angeles. James Hiebert, Ph.D., is H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Education at the University of Delaware and coauthor of the popular book for teachers, Making Sense: Teaching and Learning Mathematics with Understanding. He lives in Kemblesville, Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: The Teaching Gap
Chapter 2: Methods for Studying Teaching in Germany, Japan, and the United
States
Chapter 3: Images of Teaching
Chapter 4: Refining the Images
Chapter 5: Teaching Is a System
Chapter 6: Teaching Is a Cultural Activity
Chapter 7: Beyond Reform: Japan?s Approach to the Improvement of Classroom
Teaching
Chapter 8: Setting the Stage for Continuous Improvement
Chapter 9: The Steady Work of Improving Teaching
Chapter 10: The True Profession of Teaching
Notes
Index
Preface