| #441256 in Books | Teachers College Press | 2009-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .50 x6.00 x8.90l,.50 | File type: PDF | 160 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| great for reflective practitioners|By N. S. Kurian|I was assigned this book for my practicum (M.A. version of student-teaching). It really helped me turn my teaching into a more methodical and reflective practice (along with another book I read for the class). Rather than viewing children as "trouble-makers" or "difficult," this book encourages viewing them as a challenging s|About the Author|Cynthia Ballenger is a reading specialist, science teacher, and one of the founding members of the Brookline Teacher Researcher Seminar. Her books include Teaching Other People's Children: Literacy and Learning in a Bilingual Classroom and the e
In her new book, bestselling author Cynthia Ballenger explores the intellectual strengths of students that teachers find puzzling poor, urban, immigrant, or bilingual children who do not traditionally excel in school. Ballenger challenges the assumption that these children whose families in many cases have less formal education, read fewer storybooks, and talk less with their children about school-like topics have fewer intellectual or academically relevant experiences. ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Puzzling Moments, Teachable Moments: Practicing Teacher Research in Urban Classrooms (The Practitioner Inquiry Series) | Cynthia Ballenger. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
