Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/taHQkzF The Teacher's Attention Why Our Kids Must and Can Get Smaller Schools and Classes By: Garrett Delavan Publisher: Temple University Press Print ISBN: 9781592138944, 1592138942 eText ISBN: 9781592138951, 1592138950 Copyright year: 2009 Format: PDF Available from $ 29.95 USD SKU 9781592138951 The Teacher’s Attention is a fresh take on relationships in schools. Looking beyond our obsession with raising test scores, this book recognizes that education is a key partner in raising children. Garrett Delavan contends that allowing students, educators and parents to navigate a smaller number of relationships—a concept he calls relationship load—provides many benefits, including a better chance at achieving equal access to a good education for all children. Delavan shows how class size, school size, and longer-term student-teacher relationships are all equally critical components for educating our children ethically and successfully. After examining these proposed reforms in detail, Delavan also considers counterarguments and provides a detailed projection of costs and savings, putting to rest the assumption that smaller classes and smaller schools are necessarily more expensive. Finally, the book discusses possible steps toward implementation, showing how the author's proposed reforms are remarkably practical. Additional ISBNs 9781592138937, 1592138934
