Inside Today's Elementary Schools: A Psychologist's Perspective (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030233464)

​Part I: Shortsighted Vision & Lopsided StaffingChapter 1: The House on Sleepy Hollow RoadBridges and PotholesHow the Book Is OrganizedChapter 2: So Many Girls...So Few PrincesSome Negative Effects of the Gender Staffing ImbalanceWhat You Can DoChapter 3: When Am I Ever Going to Use Any of This?Adventure and High PurposeThe Romantic ChildLessons from Harry PotterIndustry vs. InferiorityThe Zombie ApocalypseWhat You Can DoChapter 4: And Then God Made School BoardsThe AdministrationTotal Management MentalityAdversarial PostureWho Becomes an Administrator?Toxic CultureThe Good OnesWhat You Can DoChapter 5: the Bottom of the Barrel?Women's Work: The MotherDrill and Kill: The SergeantJust Tell Me What to Do: the SheepThe Easiest Major: The UnderachieverTeacher Training, Where It All BeginsWhy Should We Teach Anyway?What You Can DoChapter 6: What to Do about These Four ThingsOur Vision of Teachers and SchoolsPersonnel ReformPart II: The Wall of Separation, Administrative Bloat, and Boundless AccommodationChapter 7: Platonic Curriculum; Epicurean SocietyWho Formulates the Standards?What Are Standards Designed to Do?What Is the Nature of the Standards?Five Basic Problems with Current Elementary StandardsThree Possible SolutionsWhat You Can DoChapter 8: Just Wastin' TimeThe Different Kinds of Wasted TimeWhere Does the Time Go?Time-Off-TaskWhy Is So Much Time Lost?How Lost Time Negatively Impacts Teacher and StudentWhat You Can DoChapter 9: No Child Left Behind?A Brief History of Standardized TestsCommon CritiquesThe Real Reason Why NCLB Caused So Much TroubleLife after NCLBWhat You Can DoChapter 10: I'm Five Teachers at Once!What is Differentiated Instruction?A Sympathetic Critique of DILess Noble reasons for Using DIWhat You Can DoChapter 11: The Incredible Bending SchoolReasonable Special Education and Non-Academic ServicesUnreasonable Special Education and Non-Academic ServicesPedagogical stressWhat You Can DoChapter 12: Look Not to the StarsA Picture of Contemporary Parental EngagementBarriers to Parental EngagementWhy Parental Engagement MattersWhat You Can DoChapter 13: What to Do about These Six ThingsWall of SeparationMultiplying DiversionsPart III: What to Do about All 10 ThingsChapter 14: A New Day?Dealing with FearSeeing Through IdeologyLetting Go of the Need to ControlConclusion

Author: James J. Dillon
ISBN-10: 3030233464
ISBN-13: 9783030233464
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2019
Pages: 261
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.57d