A Class of Their Own: When Children Teach Children

by Dennie Briggs

Seven million more children will enter our classrooms in the next decade while the number of adolescents will increase by 20%. We will require three million new teachers to instruct this expanding student population. Briggs proposes a program for training children to tutor younger students, thereby freeing up teachers to devote time to students who need more individualized attention and to teach analytic and human relations skills and imaginative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897895509
• ISBN13: 9780897895507
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.6"