
Ordinary Gifted Children
The Power and Promise of Individual Attention
Jessica Hoffmann Davis(Author)
Teachers' College Press
Published on 1. July 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-8077-5096-4 (ISBN)
Description
The remarkable story of the Hoffmann School for Individual Attention, where Ann Hoffmann believed in a diverse, challenging, and challenged group of students - with extraordinary results. Using a definition of gifted that included all children, she embraced students that other schools had failed, and helped them not just to learn, but to learn to love learning. It is a story that will resonate with anyone who has known or been a champion of children.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-5096-4 (9780807750964)
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Person
Jessica Hoffmann Davis is a cognitive developmental psychologist and founder of the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Why Our Schools Need the Arts and Framing Education as Art: The Octopus Has a Good Day. Visit the author's website at jessicahoffmanndavis.com.