Observational research in U.S. classrooms
Subtitle: new approaches for understanding cultural and linguistic diversity
By: edited by Hersh C. Waxman, Roland G. Tharp, R. Soleste Hilberg
Contributors: Waxman, Hersholt C; Tharp, Roland G., 1930-; Hilberg, R. Soleste, 1959-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Observation (Educational method); Teaching -- Social aspects -- United States
Other titles: Observational research in US classrooms; Observational research in United States classrooms
Description: This book affords researchers and educators with essential tools for examining U.S. classrooms in response to the present national reform agendas' stress on making rigorous content and high expectations accessible to all students. Improving the achievement in U.S. schools, important for both social and economic stability, will require that instruction be responsive to our nation's increasingly diverse student population. This volume accordingly provides examples of recently developed classroom observation instruments based on research of effective teaching practices for culturally and linguistically diverse students. Each chapter will assist educators in their endeavors to improve U.S. schools.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Purposes and perspectives on classroom observation research / R. Soleste Hilberg, Hersh C. Waxman, and Roland G. Tharp; title: Using multiple perspectives in observations of diverse classrooms: the sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP) / Jana Echevarria and Deborah J. Short; title: The standards performance continuum: a performance-based measure of the standards for effective pedagogy / R. Soleste Hilberg ... [et al.]; title: The uses of the classroom observation schedule to improve classroom instruction / Hersh C. Waxman and Yolanda N. Padrón; title: Development and use of a classroom observation instrument to investigate teaching for meaning in diverse classrooms / Stephanie L. Knight and Robert G. Smith; title: Patterns of language arts instructional activity and excellence in first- and fourth-grade culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms / Peggy Estrada; title: Using classroom observation as a research and formative evaluation tool in educational reform: the school observation measure / Steven M. Ross ...[et al.]; title: Observing school restructuring in multilingual, multicultural classrooms: balancing ethnographic and evaluative approaches / Amanda Datnow and Susan Yonezawa; title: Sociocultural activity settings in the classroom: a study of the classroom observation system / Héctor H. Rivera and Roland G. Tharp; title: The influence of school reform on classroom instruction in diverse schools: findings from an observational study of Success for all / Marisa Castellano and Amanda Datnow; title: Future directions for classroom observation research / Hersh C. Waxman, R. Soleste Hilberg, and Roland G. Tharp