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Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For
Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones is for teachers who struggle under top-down mandates or are forced into scripted reading lessonswhose humane, sensitive ways of teaching are threatened by rigid, mechanical programs. Tom Newkirk eloquently defends teaching against the "cult of efficiency" that turns classrooms into assembly lines of knowledge. He presents six ideas worth fighting fortransformative practices that return instructional decisions to where they belong: with teachers.
- "In this new book Tom Newkirk invites teachers to decide and lay claim to what's worth fighting for, and he offers them substantive ammunition. He asserts that no curriculum can ever work unless it fits on the back of an envelope, then offers his own envelope-sized curriculum for teaching writing, four questions and sixteen focal points."
- "Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones is for teachers who struggle under top-down mandates or are forced into scripted reading lessonswhose humane, sensitive ways of teaching are threatened by rigid, mechanical programs. Tom Newkirk eloquently defends teaching against the "cult of efficiency" that turns classrooms into assembly lines of knowledge. He presents six ideas worth fighting fortransformative practices that return instructional decisions to where they belong: with teachers."@en
- "Holding on to good ideas in a time of bad ones : six literacy principles worth fighting for"
- "Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For"@en