Creating the Schools Our Children Need: Why What We're Doing Now Won't Help Much (and What We Can Do Instead) (Explore Strategies That Help Districts - Paperback

Creating the Schools Our Children Need: Why What We're Doing Now Won't Help Much (and What We Can Do Instead) (Explore Strategies That Help Districts - Paperback

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Creating the Schools Our Children Need: Why What We're Doing Now Won't Help Much (and What We Can Do Instead) (Explore Strategies That Help Districts - Paperback
  • Creating the Schools Our Children Need: Why What We're Doing Now Won't Help Much (and What We Can Do Instead) (Explore Strategies That Help Districts - Paperback
Creating the Schools Our Children Need: Why What We're Doing Now Won't Help Much (and What We Can Do Instead) (Explore Strategies That Help Districts - Paperback

Creating the Schools Our Children Need: Why What We're Doing Now Won't Help Much (and What We Can Do Instead) (Explore Strategies That Help Districts - Paperback

$55.59
$55.59

by Dylan Wiliam (Author)

Improving education in the United States requires school districts to make smart decisions. By examining the gaps between what research says works and what schools actually do, Wiliam provides evidence-based changes to implement for successful school improvement efforts. This book helps districts, school leaders, and stakeholders learn how to become critical consumers of educational research capable of increasing student achievement.


This book will help educators:
  • Build a curriculum focused on developing knowledge
  • Support a culture where every teacher improves
  • Apply a framework for evaluating new district initiatives

Contents:
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Foreword
Introduction
Section 1
Chapter 1: Why We Need to Improve American Education
Section 2
Chapter 2: Getting Smarter People Into Teaching
Chapter 3: Firing Bad Teachers
Chapter 4: Paying Good Teachers More
Chapter 5: Reducing Class Size
Chapter 6: Copying Other Countries
Chapter 7: Expanding School Choice
Section 3
Chapter 8: Moving Forward
Chapter 9: Why Curriculum Matters
Chapter 10: A Knowledge-Rich Curriculum
Chapter 11: Improving the Teachers We Have
Chapter 12: Creating a Learning Environment for Educators
Chapter 13: Pulling It All Together
Appendix
References
Inde

Front Jacket

Improving education in America is hard, because it doesn't have an education system...It has 13,491 of them.

Dr. Dylan Wiliam is the world's foremost authority on formative assessment and has worked for years to improve the state of education in the US and abroad. Through his experience teaching in classrooms, leading schools, and directing research, Dr. Wiliam has found there is no simple solution to school improvement that works in every classroom every timebut there are district-wide measures that can improve the odds of success.

In Creating the Schools Our Children Need, Dr. Wiliam breaks down the methods American schools use to improve, and the gaps between what research tells us works and what we actually do. Dr. Wiliam analyzes the three real, implementable improvements that are proven to be factors in school success:

  • Building a curriculum focused on developing knowledge
  • Supporting a culture where every teacher improves
  • Applying a framework for evaluating new district initiatives
Solutions to the problem of improving education for our children require each school district to make smart decisions about what will make the most difference in their district. In order to create the schools our children need, district leaders must understand why what we're doing right now really won't help much, and critically, what we can do instead.
Number of Pages: 230
Dimensions: 0.6 x 9.9 x 6.9 IN
Publication Date: March 29, 2018

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