The pedagogy of confidence
Subtitle: inspiring high intellectual performance in urban schools
By: Yvette Jackson ; foreword by Reuven Feuerstein
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780807752234; 9780807752241
Subjects: Achievement motivation; Children with social disabilities; Education; City children
Description: Yvette Jackson shows educators how to focus on students' strengths to inspire learning and high intellectual performance. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: The need to believe; title: The continued drama of disregarded realities; title: Other disregarded realities: obscured learning barriers; title: Divining intelligence: the transformative theory and practice of Reuven Feuerstein; title: Back to gifted land: extraordinary learning growth requires extraordinary teacher; title: The high operational practices of the pedagogy of confidence; title: The art of applying the high operational practices; title: Namaste: the essence of the pedagogy of confidence; title: Inspiring the pedagogy of confidence; title: Mediative structures; title: Waiting to excel: from belief, practices, and structures to the pedagogy of confidence.