How Social and Emotional Development Add Up: Getting Results in Math and Science Education (The Series on Social Emotional Learning) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807743070 ISBN 13: 9780807743072

Publisher: Teachers' College Press, 2003

Synopsis

In today's urban schools, a new approach to teaching math and science is being developed. Teachers are learning that by tending to students' social and emotional well being, they have greater success teaching. Edited by a stellar group, which includes both psychologists and teachers, this vital resource shares proven strategies for improving academic performance among school age children such as: Discussions of the effect of "tracking" in schools on the students; The particular needs of minority students; Preparing students for a technology driven world in the classroom; The recent findings of the Third International Math and Science Study

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About the Author

Norris M. Haynes is Professor of Counseling and School Psychology at Southern Connecticut State University. Michael Ben-Avie is at the Yale Child Study Center and the Center for Community and School Action Research and has coedited Rallying the Whole Village and Child by Child with James P. Comer and colleagues. Jacque Ensign is Associate Professor of Teacher Education at Seattle University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers' College Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807743070
• ISBN 13: 9780807743072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Haynes Norris M., Ben-Avie Michael, Ensign Jacque