Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning - Softcover

Schmoker, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416611304 ISBN 13: 9781416611301

Publisher: Assn for Supervision & Curriculum, 2011

Synopsis

The introduction states: "[T]he only reason our schools haven't made astonishing progress in the last 30 years of "reform" is quite simple: very few schools ever implemented 'what is essential'--the most powerful, simple actions and structures that woulddramatically increase the proportion of students prepared for college or careers. What is 'essential' for schools? Three simple things: reasonably coherent curriculum (what we teach); sound lessons (how we teach); and far more purposeful reading and writing in every discipline, or authentic literacy (integral to both what and how we teach).

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Bestselling author Mike Schmoker describes a plan for radically improving student learning that is built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum (what we teach); clear, prioritized lessons (how we teach); and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy.

With this "less is more" philosophy, educators can help students learn content at a deeper level, develop greater critical thinking skills, and discover more clearly how content-area concepts affect their lives and the world around them. Both a call to action and a blueprint for creating more effective classrooms, Focus: Elevating the Essentials for Radically Improved Student Learning will challenge your assumptions about schooling and show how educators who have embraced this approach quickly achieved spectacular results.

Edition details

• Publisher: Assn for Supervision & Curriculum
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416611304
• ISBN 13: 9781416611301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 237