Beyond Standards: Excellence in the High School English Classroom

Carol Jago

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Heinemann USA
Country
United States
Published
17 January 2001
Pages
106
ISBN
9780867095036

Beyond Standards: Excellence in the High School English Classroom

Carol Jago

Be sure to check out With Rigor for All: Teaching the Classics to Contemporary Students! Learn more about assessment standards (PDF, 64.1KB). Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. It’s a crime, Carol Jago declares, to let any students, whatever their native abilities drift through the school year without effort, without growth, without goals. Each student is capable of achieving excellence. But it requires a nurturing, vigorous classroom environment; not the glass ceilings set by even the best of standards-based instruction. To help current and future high school English teachers create and maintain this kind of environment, Jago has created this groundbreaking book. Beyond Standards offers concrete ways to reconceive what it means to foster excellent performance in the classroom and vivid examples of student work that was motivated by the pursuit of excellence rather than by test scores. Packed with richly detailed classroom anecdotes, it explores the many ways teachers can select books, design lessons, and inspire discussions that can lead all their students to extraordinary achievements, both in the study of literature and in their writing assignments. Included are practical tips on everything from helping students self-edit their writing to tricking them into reading a lot more poetry. Beyond Standards may be seen as a series of stories; or ethnographic studies ; on how to make the work of the high school English class humanly and genuinely important to students so that they will engage in literate activity with the same kind of attention and effort as real writers. Under such conditions, Jago asserts, students will learn more and produce more useful and impressive products than any standards document could possibly anticipate.

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