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Hardback. New. In her new book, Yvette Jackson shows educators how to focus on students' strengths to inspire learning and high intellectual performance. Jackson asserts that the myth that the route to increasing achievement by focusing on weaknesses (promoted by policies such as NCLB) has blinded us to the strengths and intellectual potential of urban students-devaluing the motivation, initiative, and confidence of dedicated educators to search for and optimise this potential. The Pedagogy of Confidence dispels this myth and provides practical approaches to rekindle educators' belief in their ability to inspire the vast capacity of their urban students. Book Features: Describes practical approaches and examples of how inspirational educators implement High Operational Practices, offering strategies for dealing with cultural disconnects, the influence of new technologies, and language preferences of students. Illustrates how educators empower student investment in the "mediative…
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by Yvette Jackson; Foreword by Reuven Feuerstein
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- Title The Pedagogy of Confidence: Inspiring High Intellectual Performance in Urban Schools
- Author Yvette Jackson; Foreword by Reuven Feuerstein
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Teachers College Press
- Date 2011
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780807752241 / 080775224X
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- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Library of Congress subjects Children with social disabilities -, Achievement motivation - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010051716
- Dewey Decimal Code 371.009
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