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Teacher's Guide to Flexible Interviewing in the Classroom, The: Learning What Children Know About Math |  | Authors: Herbert P. Ginsburg, Susan F. Jacobs, Luz Stella Lopez
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 868852
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 211
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0205265677
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.7044
EAN: 9780205265671
ASIN: 0205265677
Publication Date: January 21, 1998
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Product Description
To teach effectively, teachers need to understand what the child means; discover what the shy child is thinking; or why the student from a different culture refuses to answer. Curriculum improvements such as computers will not be truly effective unless teachers understand how children think and what they know. The Standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics urge teachers to go in new directions and conduct more "authentic" assessments of students. This book helps teachers understand and use one essential form of assessment aimed at uncovering children's thinking about math and other subjects - the flexible interview. The authors' goal is to help elementary level teachers understand and use flexible interviewing. They describe practical ways of using flexible interviews in the classroom in order to learn what children know about math. The methods described were developed and tested by real classroom teachers. Elementary school teachers of any subject. A Longwood Professional Book
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Can teachers enter children's mind? March 27, 2000
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is an excellent guide for elementary and mathematics teachers and practitioners, especially for those who feel that urgent need to "gain insight into children's minds" in order to teach effectively. The book advocates the use of flexible interviewing - the technique developed by Jean Piaget- by teachers in their classroom, as an efficient assessment and teaching method. Written in a very clear , simple but comprehensive style, and, based on experimental classroom practices, this book explains how to prepare students for the Thinking-Oriented classroom , presents the different possible uses of flexible interviewing in the classroom: individual, group and peer interviewing.. It includes a step-by-step guidelines on how to conduct a flexible interview and a valuable sampler of questions ready to be used by teachers. Although this book is self-sufficient, it would be very helpful for anybody new to the flexible interviewing to consult Ginsburg's previous book:"Entering the Child's Mind". Finally,I have to say that I found that book very convincing: once you read it, you feel you have to start acting
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