Daniels, Harvey

A teacher's guide to using inquiry-based learning in the classroom.

Provides advice and lessons to engage middle school students and encourage collaboration, self-awareness, and compassion in the middle school classroom.

A teacher's guide to literature circles, discussing what they are, offering advice on how to start literature circles in primary through college classrooms, and providing information on management problems, variations, and relating the reading groups to other areas of study.

Offers teachers practical advice on how they can incorporate carefully structured writing activities into classroom lessons in order to increase student understanding and achievement.

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.