Transforming High Schools
A Constructivist Agenda
Published on 28. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
162 pages
978-1-56676-378-3 (ISBN)
Description
A practical guide to restructuring the high school in all areas: organization, curriculum, instruction, scheduling, and student management. Oriented to individual student learning and related to national curriculum standards and cognitive science. Also contains practical implementation examples for school administrators, to allow them to make significant changes in what they teach, how they teach it, and how they organize to teach it. The author has received numerous national recognitions for his work in this area.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
273 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56676-378-3 (9781566763783)
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John M. Jenkins served as principal for over three decades. He was also the director of the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School (1-12) at the University of Florida. He has authored or co-authored eight published books in education, as well as monographs and articles. He was a member of the NASSP-Carnegie Commission on the high school for the 21st century.