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Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning
Focus Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning
Author: Mike Schmoker
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781416611301
ISBN-10: 1416611304
Publication Date: 1/13/2011
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Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
Book Type: Paperback
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My principal bought this book for us to read and it changed the way I think about teaching. The projects, worksheets, and hands-on activities that I was taught to use in college can be detrimental to a student's learning. Instead, focusing on select, important standards and teaching students to read and write critically really help improve student learning at any level.


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