The teaching gap : best ideas from the world's teachers for improving education in the classroom

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Stigler, James W

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"In The Teaching Gap, the authors draw on the conclusions of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) - an innovative new study of teaching in several cultures - to refocus edu...

"In The Teaching Gap, the authors draw on the conclusions of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) - an innovative new study of teaching in several cultures - to refocus educational reform efforts. Using videotaped lessons from dozens of randomly selected eighth-grade classrooms in the United States, Japan, and Germany, the authors reveal the rich, yet unfulfilled promise of American teaching and document exactly how other countries have consistently stayed ahead of us in the rate their children learn. Our schools can be restructured as places where teachers can engage in career-long learning and classrooms can become laboratories for developing new, teaching-centered ideas. If provided the time they need during the school day for collaborative lesson study and plan building, teachers will change the way our students learn." "James Stigler and James Hiebert have given us nothing less than a "best practices" for teachers - one that offers proof that how teachers teach is far more important than increased spending, state-of-the-art facilities, mandatory homework, or special education - and a plan for change that educators, teachers, and parents can implement together."--BOOK JACKET.

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