The Pedagogy of Confidence: Inspiring High Intellectual Performance in Urban Schools

by Yvette Jackson

Book Overview

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 optimize this potential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807752231
• ISBN13: 9780807752234
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"