Puzzling moments, teachable moments : practicing teacher research in urban classrooms / Cynthia Ballenger.
The author explores the intellectual strengths of students that teachers find "puzzling" : poor, urban, immigrant, or bilingual children who do not traditionally excel in school. She challenges the assumption that these children whose families in many cases have less formal education, read...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Teachers College Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | Practitioner inquiry series.
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| Summary: | The author explores the intellectual strengths of students that teachers find "puzzling" : poor, urban, immigrant, or bilingual children who do not traditionally excel in school. She 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. This book offers a plan for traversing the daily work of teaching a diverse population, helping educators to refine their work as it unfolds in the classroom. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 141 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-129) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807749937 0807749931 9780807749944 080774994X |