Best Practice : New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools (2 Revised edition)

In its original edition, Best Practice was the first book to summarize the emerging standards of state-of-the-art teaching, offering practical descriptions of instructional excellence across the curriculum.

Now, in this extensively revised and expanded second edition, we find updated descriptions of progressive teaching in six subject areas: reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, and the arts.

New and revised features include thorough coverage of all major national standards projects, including a dozen key documents released since 1993; a critical review and chronology of recent school reforms, with a balanced look at the fractious standards movement itself; updated chapters on reading and writing that incorporate the new NCTE and IRA standards; a retrospective on the NCTM standards, based on a decade of attempted implementation; a look at the destructive impact politics has had on history and social studies curricula; and a new chapter on Best Practice in the arts, with an emphasis on K-12 curriculum integration; and many new classroom stories.

Contents: 1. Renewing Our Schools: An Emerging Consensus 2. Best Practice in Reading 3. Best Practice in Writing 4. Best Practice in Mathematics 5. Best Practice in Science 6. Best Practice in Social Studies 7. Best Practice in Visual Art, Music, Dance, and Theatre 8.

Classroom Structures for Best Practice 9. Making the Transition 10. But What About Evaluation, Test Scores, Tracking Special Students, Classroom Management, Parents, and Other Concerns? 11. Yes, but ... Will It Work in City Schools?