Reversing Lower Attainment: Developmental Curriculum Strategies for Overcoming Disaffection and Underachievement

ISBN-13: 9781853465611 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str.

Montgomery, Diane

Opis

This text aims to help teachers adapt their teaching strategies so that they can offer a cognitively challenging curriculum. It also: examines the nature of lower attainment in its various forms, in the highly able, the slower learner, the dyslexic, and the disaffected; discusses the origins of these problems and how they may be identified; and evaluates different curriculum models and methods of differentiation. The book can also be used for assessing and reviewing school improvement and development policies.

Spis treści

Part 1 SECTION ONE The nature, origins and indentification of lower attainment; Chapter 1 Lower attainment, learning difficulties and learning disorders; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Lower attainment and specific learning difficulties; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Lower attainment, disaffection and demotivation; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Differentiation: curriculum models and methods; Section TWO The nature of effective learning and teaching; Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Speaking and listening; Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Handwriting; Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Spelling; Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Reading; Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Study skills; Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Writing; Chapter 11 Chapter 11 Thinking and problem solving; Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Number and mathematical difficulties; Chapter 13 Chapter 13 Behaviour and social skills management; Epilogue; References; Index;

O autorze

Diane Montgomery