Close the Achievement Gap Simple Strategies That Work

Discover basic strategies that promote student achievement in low-performing classrooms!This invaluable research-based guidebook illustrates how quality teaching can overcome the impact of low socioeconomic conditions and improve student performance dramatically. The authors present instructional techniques that require students to speak with skill, write with clarity and purpose, read with a critical eye, and listen with active engagement. Using six practical strategies, educators can overcome the odds and guide learners to success by: Setting high expectations for all studentsMaking differentiation part of everything they doChallenging students to think criticallyInsisting on results-oriented goalsPete, Brian M. is the author of 'Close the Achievement Gap Simple Strategies That Work', published 2007 under ISBN 9780974741659 and ISBN 0974741655.