Reviews for The Exam Class Toolkit: How to Create Engaging Lesson That Ensure Progression and Results

The average rating for The Exam Class Toolkit: How to Create Engaging Lesson That Ensure Progression and Results based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-08-05 00:00:00 Philippe Coquet I read this book as part of my graduate school program. I live in the suburbs and I have taught at suburban high schools so I read this as an academic as well as a practitioner. I could see students of mine that echoed the sentiments of Demerath's focus students. I am disturbed by how easy it is to want to defend the teachers in the book. And yet, Demerath is right. I could defend the teachers but I shouldn't. His research shows that the culture drives us all as we perpetuate the classes, the divisions, as well as the culture. When we talk about any -ism as being systemic, it seems like a way to make it a problem that is bigger than us and, therefore, unsolvable by us. Demerath shows us that systemic problems are us. As with most good research, there isn't a solution, just the facts laid bare and the dots connected.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-12-28 00:00:00 Simone Ornaghi This book is poorly written and completely misses the mark. Sure, we want students investigating the worlds of literature and their lives-- but we also want them composing meaningful pieces of writing and becoming better communicators. All aspects of the English classroom are intertwined, and the authors of this book fail to appreciate that. Had I followed this model when teaching in the public schools, my department chair would have probably fired me on the spot.