Building Urban Little Schools: Where Every Child Succeeds with Dignity
In a time when public education is the major issue of the day, Newman presents a program for altering the face of public education: developing small urban, neighborhood based schools where children never experience failure while learning the skills and content necessary to be a successful independent learner through the medium of "conversations" with their teachers. The scheme provides a blueprint for mastering the academic skills required in the elementary grades, starting at 5 years until 12 years of age, as well as in challenging high school academic curriculums. Everyone benefits from this dynamic program. Students continue as independent learners with benefit of a tutor, while working in community based jobs to learn work related skills. Adults as teachers are key players since they teach each child through the medium of honest, emotionally sensitive conversations as he/she learns. Newman also describes how one trains adults to interact honestly with students, a personal growth experience also for the adults. The program's success over the last 10 years is attributed to the program's small, extended-caring family context which helps students and adults to learn to talk productively and share emotions freely. IN HARMONY WITH EACH CHILD operates on a "small is beautiful" model ideal for public and charter schools. Includes many examples.
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Building Urban Little Schools: Where Every Child Succeeds with Dignity
In a time when public education is the major issue of the day, Newman presents a program for altering the face of public education: developing small urban, neighborhood based schools where children never experience failure while learning the skills and content necessary to be a successful independent learner through the medium of "conversations" with their teachers. The scheme provides a blueprint for mastering the academic skills required in the elementary grades, starting at 5 years until 12 years of age, as well as in challenging high school academic curriculums. Everyone benefits from this dynamic program. Students continue as independent learners with benefit of a tutor, while working in community based jobs to learn work related skills. Adults as teachers are key players since they teach each child through the medium of honest, emotionally sensitive conversations as he/she learns. Newman also describes how one trains adults to interact honestly with students, a personal growth experience also for the adults. The program's success over the last 10 years is attributed to the program's small, extended-caring family context which helps students and adults to learn to talk productively and share emotions freely. IN HARMONY WITH EACH CHILD operates on a "small is beautiful" model ideal for public and charter schools. Includes many examples.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781571290762 |
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| Publisher: | Brookline Books, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 09/01/2000 |
| Pages: | 301 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.91(h) x 0.66(d) |
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