What to look for in a classroom
Subtitle: and other essays
By: Alfie Kohn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1998
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Teachers; Teaching; Classroom management; Learning; Teacher-student relationships; School management and organization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The limits of teaching skills; title: The trouble with school uniforms; title: Beyond discipline; title: How not to teach values : a critical look at character education; title: Resistance to cooperative learning : making sense of its deletion and dilution; title: "A lot of fat kids who don't like to read" : the effects of Pizza Hut's Book it! program and other reading incentives; title: Grading : the issue is not how but why; title: Grade inflation and other red herrings; title: Only for my kid : how privileged parents undermine school reform; title: Suffer the restless children; title: The truth about self-esteem; title: Television and children : reviewing the evidence; title: The five-hundred-pound gorilla; title: The false premises of school choice plans; title: Students don't "work" they learn; title: The littlest customers : TQM goes to school; title: Caring kids : the role of the schools; title: Choices for children : why and how to let students decide; title: What to look for in a classroom.