ED399083 PS024547
Title: The Looping Handbook: Teachers and Students Progressing Together.
Author(s): Grant, Jim; And Others
Pages: 149
Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 1-884548-07-5
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Crystal Springs Books, P.O. Box 500, Ten Sharon Road,
Peterborough, NJ 03458 (Item No. 4857, $24.95, plus $4.75 shipping
and handling; discount on quantity orders.
Language: English
Document Type: Guides--Classroom--Teacher (052); Reports--Descriptive
(141)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New Hampshire
Journal Announcement: RIEJAN1997
Target Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Looping is
a very simple concept, whereby a teacher moves with his or her students
to the next grade level, rather than sending them another teacher
at the end of the school year. Schools all over the country are
finding that this simple idea is having a profound effect on their
students. This handbook describes the many benefits of looping and
describes how to get started. The handbook contains interviews with
looping teachers and principals from six schools, as well as samples
from a looping teacher's parent handbook, and a complete outline
of her first- and second-grade looping curriculum. Also included
is a parent survey from another looping teacher, as well as several
summer activities designed to enhance the looping experience for
children. The chapter "Look Before You Loop" discusses
the handful of potential problems that can crop up with looping,
and how to avoid them. A list of schools interviewed which have
offered themselves as resources for interested teachers and administrators
includes addresses, phone numbers and FAX numbers. (WJC)
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides; *Grouping (Instructional Purposes);
*Nontraditional Education; Primary Education; Program Descriptions;
Program Implementation; *Teacher Role; *Teacher Student Relationship;
*Teaching Methods
Identifiers: *Looping (Teachers)
