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Binding: HardcoverEAN: 9781880183007 ISBN: 1880183005 Label: ADI Press Manufacturer: ADI Press Number Of Pages: 379 Publication Date: November 13, 2007 Publisher: ADI Press Studio: ADI Press Editorial Review: Product Description: Teaching Needy Kids in Our Backward System documents the often-outrageous experiences of a man some consider the most important educator ever, Siegfried (Zig) Engelmann. Through a tapestry of vignettes that start in the 60s and continue through 06, Professor Engelmann describes the battles he has fought to provide effective instruction for at-risk kids, particularly children of poverty. The most incredible of Engelmann s battles occurred in Project Follow Through, the largest and most definitive educational experiment ever conducted, involving 180 communities and over 200,000 at-risk children in grades kindergarten through 3. To discover which approach was most effective, Follow Through installed and tested 22 models of teaching disadvantaged children, from 1968 to 1977. The models covered the spectrum of approaches that are in schools today, from the discovery-oriented approaches to those based on behavioral principals of reinforcement. The evaluation measured the children's achievements in reading, math, language, and spelling. The study was also designed to discover which models were superior in teaching basic skills and which excelled in teaching higher order thinking skills, also which models had kids with the strongest sense of personal responsibility and which kids had the highest self images. The results astounded educators and made a mockery of their predictions. There were not various winners, but only one winner, and that one excelled in every category measured. The winning model was designed by Zig Engelmann and his colleagues- Direct Instruction. Why haven t you heard about Follow Through, Direct Instruction, or Zig Engelmann? Because Follow Through outcomes were never disseminated, never made public, and never used to influence educational decision making. Why would the Feds spend half a billion to fund Follow Through and never disseminate the results? Read the book and discover the astonishing truths. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Voice For the Children"Teaching Needy Kids" is an amazing account of a dedicated professional's relentless efforts to right some great wrongs in the American educational system. Reading this book gave me a better understanding of Direct Instruction and how it was developed. I recommend this book to all anti- Direct Instruction "professionals" who feel as though the curriculum does not work. They will be able to see all the excellent rational from which D.I. was created. I've learned, from ... Read More Rating: - Who says education is about teaching kids? Reading Zig Engelman's latest book, "Teaching Needy Kids," you realize that education in the United States really has very little to do with teaching kids and everything to do with how teachers feel, the revenues of text book publishers, bureaucrats and other special interests. Despite the constant talk of education reform, reformers hardly ever get around to changing the most important thing: how instruction is delivered to students. "Teaching Needy Kids" is essentially the story of ... Read More Rating: - Interesting tale of a legendI found out about Direct Instruction through the book "Super Crunchers". The book mentioned it as an instructional technique that had very substantial statistical evidence of effectiveness, yet it was widely ignored or even discredited by the educational establishment. As I did further research, I found this portrayal of DI to be accurate, and I discovered this book (right as he published it). It is essentially a tale of Zig Engelmann and his struggle to get schools to adopt Direct Instruction ... Read More |
