Organizing Classrooms for Small-Group Instruction: Learning for Mastery [Hardcover]

This concise book is packed with ideas and resources that engage students on their own learning levels. And it gives clear and detailed plans for setting up and managing their diverse work. A refreshing antidote to the usual tedium of practicing basic skills.As a principal, I implemented this program and it was an outstanding success. I give the first edition of this book to the beginning teachers at all 47 of our elementary schools each year as resource guide for organizing classrooms for instruction.How does one organize his or her class to meet different difficulty levels and enable students to work to mastery? How does one keep youngsters on task to mastery and do it at different learning levels?....[Organizing Classrooms for Small-Group Instruction] tells how in specific detail!....If you are a teacher or a principal looking for some ideas and techniques for helping your own students, I believe you will find this book a definite asset.Three American educators and consultants present a classroom model that teachers can use to organize their classes to meet the varied skill levels of all their students.Open the door to a classroom using the ideas in this book and you will see it buzzing with energy for learning - children working with enthusiasm to master skills that match their instructional level. This system is a breakthrough.Here is a book about a program of structured independent activities that engage students while the teacher works closely with a small group. The program is essentially a system of centers of managing children's individual practice of skills.Here is an antidote to the stifling academic grind brought on by accountability testing. It demonstrates how mastery of skills can be a joy rather than a chore and describes in detail a highly successful program of structured skill-mastery centers that engage students independently while the teacher works closely with a small group. This system of managing the classroom helps the teacher provide materl“3