Stanley Pogrow: 2 books
Teaching Content Outrageously
How to Captivate All Students and Accelerate Learning, Grades 4-12
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
A powerful instructional method for "hooking" students on academic learning
Drawing from a teaching model designed to banish boredom and student apathy, this book explains how dramatic practices can serve as powerful tools for enlivening lessons and captivating students, even the most resistant...
The Myths of Standardized Tests
Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most...