Pre-Owned The Essential 55 : An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child (Hardcover) 9781401300012

from feistylibrary

Ron Clark's "The Essential 55" is more of a road map than a how-to. After reading his book, I tried to implement several of his ideas into my own classroom. Some worked, some didn't, but I assumed that it was more user-error than bad idea. Like most classroom resources, not everything works for e...

from jaimelesmaths

This book certainly has many good points. Some of the rules are a bit conservative, but the principles behind them are sound. (On the other hand, some of the rules are more relaxed than a traditional educator might expect.) The overall theme is that, for some low acheiving students, socializing t...

from libmhleigh

Famed educator Ron Clark originally agreed to teach for North Carolina solely because of a program which would pay for his college tuition if he agreed to do so. His first classroom was a troubled group of elementary students who had already run through a slew of teachers by midyear. After becomi...

from Solar-Moon

Obviously Ron Clark is a very successful teacher. What he does works for him and probably some others as well. I think all teachers should read it because there is some good stuff in there. The 55 rules are excessive by any standard, but I think it's more about creating the right learning environ...

from SusanIN

"Essential 55" author Ron Clark earned the 2001 Disney Teacher of the Year Award. In this book, he goes through his 55 classroom rules for (not surprisingly) discovering the successful student in every child. I began reading one of these rules each night to my kids after dinner. They are nothing...