In today's education debates, many experts call for school vouchers, smaller classes, more standardised testing, or rigorous teacher accrediting, as the key to improving student performance. Remarkably, none of these approaches addresses what actually goes on in the classroom. In this book an experi[...]
In this study, an experienced classroom teacher takes us into her fifth-grade maths class through the course of a year and shows how classroom dynamics - the complex relationship of teacher, student and content - are critical in improving student performance. Magdalene Lampert offers an original mod[...]