Creating the Schools Our Children Need: Why What We're Doing Now Won't Help Much (And What We Can Do Instead), Mar/2018
| Author(s) | Dylan Wiliam |
| ISBN10 | 1943920338 |
| ISBN13 | 9781943920334 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 216 |
| Year Publish | 2018 March |
Synopsis
2018 Top 10 Book of the Year
Times Education Supplement (TES)
"Improving education in America is hard, because it doesn’t have an education system...It has 13,491 of them."
Dylan Wiliam is the world’s foremost authority on formative assessment and has worked for years to improve the state of education in the US and abroad. Through his experience teaching in classrooms, leading schools, and directing research, Wiliam has found there is no simple solution to school improvement that works in every classroom every time—but there are district-wide measures that can improve the odds of success.
In Creating the Schools Our Children Need, Wiliam breaks down the methods American schools use to improve, and the gaps between what research tells us works and what we actually do. Wiliam analyzes the three real, implementable improvements that are proven to be factors in school success:
- Building a curriculum focused on developing knowledge
- Supporting a culture where every teacher improves
- Applying a framework for evaluating new district initiatives
Solutions to the problem of improving education for our children require each school district to make smart decisions about what will make the most difference in their district. In order to create the schools our children need, district leaders must understand why what we’re doing right now really won’t help much, and critically, what we can do instead.
About The Author:
"Always in the back of my mind has been this idea that we can actually do a better job of making our teaching more responsive to the needs of our students." - Dylan Wiliam
Dylan Wiliam, PhD, is one of the world’s foremost education authorities. Wiliam is professor emeritus of educational assessment at UCL Institute of Education (IOE), London, UK. Wiliam’s most recent publication, Creating the Schools Our Children Need: Why What We’re Doing Now Won’t Help Much (And What We Can Do Instead), analyzes the approaches that American schools have taken in order to improve student achievement, and shows why they are unlikely to succeed.
