{"product_id":"the-better-elementary-school-9781475866469","title":"The Better Elementary School","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eResponsible elementary schools strive to ensure that all pupils know more today than they knew yesterday thereby better preparing the youngsters for tomorrow's lessons. However essential that aim, achieving the goal faces serious challenges due to what confronts quality classroom teachers daily: It's not the budget crisis or standardized testingIt's the enormous variation in the academic level of students coming into any given classroom Our current educational system's rigid graded format, i.e., first grade, second grade, is unable to accommodate this extraordinary pupil diversity. By habit rather than wise thinking, schools assign 25-30 children to classrooms and a teacher's curriculum on the basis of age with no consideration for skills, a flawed approach called lumping. Doing so, even superior teachers are forced by time constraints to ignore many youngsters' educational strengths and weaknesses thereby increasing the likelihood those schoolkids will suffer discordant curriculum \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening Thoughts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: Schools and Basic Issues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: The Underserved \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Celebrating the Individual Child \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four:Age, Grade Level, and Peers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: The Consequences of Lumping \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiagnostics, Strategies, and Formats\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Tailoring Instruction: Getting Started \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Authentic Performance-Based Assessment \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Error Analysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine:Formative Assessment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Tailored Education of All School Kids \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: Format: Graded\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: Format: Ungraded \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClosing Thoughts\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040354992471,"sku":"9781475866469","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475866469.jpg?v=1750946485","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-better-elementary-school-9781475866469","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}