One Room School

Download or read book Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education written by Susan Wise Bauer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you read only one book on educating children, this should be the book.… With a warm, informative voice, Bauer gives you the knowledge that will help you flex the educational model to meet the needs of your child.” —San Francisco Book Review Our K–12 school system isn’t a good fit for all—or even most—students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity, and slaps “disability” labels on differences in learning style. Caught in this system, far too many young learners end up discouraged. This informed, compassionate, and practical guidebook will show you how to take control of your child’s K–12 experience and negotiate the school system in a way that nurtures your child’s mind, emotions, and spirit. Understand why we have twelve grades, and why we match them to ages. Evaluate your child’s maturity, and determine how to use that knowledge to your advantage. Find out what subject areas we study in school, why they exist—and how to tinker with them. Discover what learning disabilities and intellectual giftedness are, how they can overlap, how to recognize them, and how those labels can help (or hinder) you. Work effectively with your child’s teachers, tutors, and coaches. Learn to teach important subjects yourself. Challenge accepted ideas about homework and standardized testing. Help your child develop a vision for the future. Reclaim your families’ priorities (including time for eating together, playing, imagining, traveling, and, yes, sleeping!). Plan for college—or apprenticeships. Consider out-of-the-box alternatives.

Download or read book Tales from Kentucky One-room School Teachers written by William Lynwood Montell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides descriptive accounts of what the one-room school era was like for teachers, students, and the wider community, encompassing school infrastructure, school events both typical and unusual, teacher-student relationships, and other factors relative to the culture of an educational system that began in pioneer times and ended during the 1950s to the 1970s, primarily in the 1960s"--P. [1].

Download or read book One-room School written by Raymond Bial and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a brief history of the one-room schools that existed in the United States from the 1700s to the 1950s.

Download or read book Beyond the One Room School written by P. Bruce Uhrmacher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to showcase K-12 unique and educational significant activities that we may all learn from. The essays in the book, under girded by sound research, highlight remarkable activities that are already taking place around the world. The essays offer a detailed description of a classroom or a school; provide an interpretation of what is taking place in this setting and why; and inform readers about what can be learned from the setting. Some readers will appreciate the vivid descriptions, which will encourage them to push their own thinking. Others may learn from the author’s discussion of essential ideas from the essay, which can be reflected upon and tranferred into other situations. All readers are likely to appreciate hearing about the varied and creative activities. The stories of these noteworthy teachers fall into four categories: risk-taking, creativity, care and community, and interconnectedness. Within these themes are ideas that teachers can use to create their own remarkable classrooms. Each theme is discussed and then several examples of how the theme plays out in the educational setting are described.

Download or read book Governor's Message ... written by West Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book FROM A ONE-ROOM SCHOOL TO HARVARD written by Dr. Edward Clark and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-03 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In From a One-Room School to Harvard, Edward Clark tells the story of his journey from growing up in a small rural community in Tennessee to establishing and managing a successful engineering firm in Miami, Florida. Written as he approached eighty years of age, Edward shares the stories of the ups and downs of life with humor and honesty. This book is an encouraging and uplifting read that shows that life is made up of decisions both big and small that enable you to follow your dreams.

Download or read book Creating Wooden Villages written by Evan J. Kern and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In small towns across America, there are houses and buildings that have been standing for more than a century, some for as long as 300 years. Now you can replicate these architectural treasures in miniature and create your own historic village. With the patterns and easy-to-follow instructions provided in this enchanting book, you can make these buildings and more: A Victorian railroad station; A Mansard House; A Tudor manor house; A one-room schoolhouse; A general store; A log tavern; An Italianate mansion; A Federal-style town hall; A Victorian church; A Georgian house; A Pennsylvania German bank barn; and Outhouses.