Ordinary Gifted Children: The Power and Promise of Individual Attention (0) - Softcover

Davis, Jessica Hoffmann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807750964 ISBN 13: 9780807750964

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2010

Synopsis

This is the remarkable story of the Hoffmann School for Individual Attention, where the principal believed in a diverse, challenging, and challenged group of students—with extraordinary results. With a definition of gifted that included all children, Ann Hoffmann embraced students that other schools had failed, and she helped them not just to learn, but to learn to love learning. Written with candor and humor by renowned arts educator (and Ann Hoffmann’s daughter) Jessica Hoffmann Davis, this portrait will resonate with anyone who has known or been a champion of children. Ann Hoffmann’s example will inspire and delight, reminding us of what matters most in education and that if we love what we do, anything is possible. This fascinating narrative addresses the timeless features of teaching and learning, with important implications for how we think about curriculum, instruction, and classroom life. The story of the Hoffmann School is an insider’s view of a place in time that is more importantly a vision and set of beliefs that can reoccur in anyone’s classroom or adult life.

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About the Author

Jessica Hoffmann Davis is a cognitive developmental psychologist and founder of the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Why Our Schools Need the Arts and Framing Education as Art: The Octopus Has a Good Day. Visit the author’s website at jessicahoffmanndavis.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807750964
• ISBN 13: 9780807750964
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208