Teaching Transformed: Achieving Excellence, Fairness, Inclusion, And Harmony

By Roland G. Tharp and Peggy Estrada

Book Overview

All school reformers are trying for better schooling; but all are not marching to the same drum. Four goals-- Excellence, Fairness, Inclusion and Harmony-- are emphasized by different groups. Are the four goals competing ideas of the good, so that national political debates must result in prioritizing, in winners and losers? Tharp, Estrada, Dalton, and Yamauchi demonstrate that the four goals can all be achieved, simultaneously and maximally, by classrooms of a new vision.All school reform has one final common pathway -- instructional activity. Whatever the specific reform, from policy or finance to teacher preparation, none will have any effect on student development except as it operates through the teaching-and-learning activities of classrooms. Teaching Transformed is a new vision for classrooms, based on consensus research findings and unified practice prescriptions, explained and justified by new developments in sociocultural theory, and clarified by an explicit five-phase developmental guide for achieving that transformation. In the spirit of Rousing Minds to Life, Teaching Transformed is both visionary and practical, both theoretical and data-driven, and determined to create effective education for all students. Professional educators, parents, policy makers, and any reader concerned with saving our schools will find this book necessary to understand our current plight, and to envision a realistic means of transformation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813322693
• ISBN13: 9780813322698
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

In a nutshell, HE needs to transform its teaching practices, instill fairness in most of its practic

Doctoral learners for Organization Leadership in Higher Education situated at Cambridge University in London, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and all its affiliates including Grand Canyon University, Arizona State University, the U of A and the NAU in Flagstaff will definitely find Teaching Transformed by Twyla Tarp, et al., most valuable because it delineates the most salient parts of what's missing. Inclusiveness, fairness and the drive for learners to drive for excellence is what the global society needs.