A01=Kathy Greeley
academic standards
alternative teaching
Author_Kathy Greeley
Category=JNK
Category=JNL
curriculum and testing
education aims
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eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
innovation and teaching
projects & teaching
public school teaching
teacher practice
teacher training
Product details
- ISBN 9780807739808
- Weight: 229g
- Dimensions: 156 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 10 Nov 2000
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Crucial to the public debate about schools, curriculum, testing, academic standards, and teacher training are the voices of successful teachers, like Kathy Greely, who speak to the dangers of an overemphasis on standardized testing and a punitive, back-to-basics approach. This work is a chronicle of a year in the life of a school classroom. The author provides an alternative model of education and shows how a strong and supportive community is essential in helping students reach their highest potential. Included in this account are: specific projects that explain in detail critical practices in the classroom; class discussions that show efforts to interweave academic study with personal awareness; excerpts from student journals; and descriptions of daily failures and frustrations, as well as successes and victories.
Kathy Greeley is a middle school teacher at the Graham and Parks School in Cambridge, MA which recently won the 2000 Disney Learning Partnership Spotlight School Award. A former Conant Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kathy continues to immerse herself in education and community-based projects.
