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Teaching Transformed: Achieving Excellence, Fairness, Inclusion, and Harmony
reviewed by Leah Kirell & Suzanne M. Wilson - 2002
 Title: Teaching Transformed: Achieving Excellence, Fairness, Inclusion, and Harmony
Author(s): Roland G. Tharp, Peggy Estrada, Stephanie Stoll Dalton, and Lois A. Yamauchi,
Publisher: Westview Press, Boulder, CO
ISBN: 0813322693 , Pages: 274, Year: 2000
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Teaching Transformed: Achieving Excellence, Fairness, Inclusion, and Harmony is a hopeful book. The authors of this edited book have spent their careers investigating -- through research and practice -- how to create classrooms in which all children learn valuable content while being treated respectfully and fairly. The authors have worked, with students and teachers, in teacher education and professional development, exploring principles of effective pedagogy, and documenting what works. This book offers a detailed, theoretically grounded, practical plan for transforming teaching into a liberating experience for all. The conceptual landscape covered in the book is multi-dimensional. The authors describe their four educational goals: fairness, excellence, inclusion, and harmony; and they offer five standards of effective pedagogy, based -- they claim -- on research and a “growing consensus” among educators. These principles include teachers and students producing together; the development of language and literacy across the curriculum; making meaning by connecting school to students’ lives; teaching complex thinking; and teaching through sustained “instructional conversations.” Using sociocultural theory to guide their thinking, the authors argue... (preview truncated at 150 words.)
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- Leah Kirell
Michigan State University
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LEAH KIRELL is currently a doctoral student in Michigan State University's Teacher Education Department. Formerly, she was a high school English teacher in Washington,DC and has taught writing at the college level. Her interests include compostion theory/insturction and urban education.
- Suzanne Wilson
Michigan State University
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SUZANNE M. WILSON is a professor of teacher education and director of the Center for the Scholarship of Teaching at Michigan State University. She is an educational psychologist with interests in teacher learning, teacher knowledge, and the connection between educational policy and teachers’ practice.
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