direct instruction

The creators of Chicago's Best Practice High School, a small public high school guided by the national standards of state-of-the art instruction, address eleven issues, assertions, or principles they believe hold the key to good high schools, including size, climate, teaching, curriculum, and scheduling.

Draws from national reports, research summaries, and professional position papers to provide explanations of what constitutes instructional excellence in the main school curriculum areas; and includes examples of those standards at work in real classrooms at all grade levels.

Examines teaching methods across the curriculum that help students learn, and describes how to implement those strategies into the regular classroom.

Draws from national reports, research summaries, and professional position papers to provide explanations of what constitutes instructional excellence in the main school curriculum areas; and includes examples of those standards at work in real classrooms at all grade levels.

Provides strategies for teaching literacy across the curriculum, discussing school wide collaboration, using foreign language classes as models, taking notes, editing, revising, speaking, listening, collaborative learning, and other related topics.