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THE ESSENTIAL 55
An Award-Winning Educator’s Rules for Discovering the Successful
Student in Every Child.
By: Ron Clark
NY:Hyperion:2003
Reviewed by: Lon Woodbury
A teacher who has been teaching since 1995 wrote this cute
little book. Much of his experience has been with difficult
to work with primary students. Out of his personal experience,
he began to develop a list of rules that are basic enough
that children can make sense of them. These are the rules
that have helped him take apathetic students and get them
on the road to success. At root, by working from this list
of rules, the author shows that with determination, consistency,
discipline and regular rewards, a teacher can get through
to the most difficult student. The result is the 55 ideas
of specific behavior contained in this book.
Ranging from dinner table etiquette, to respect for adults
and other students, to hints about everyday behavior, this
list of 55 rules distills basic ideas of character, self-discipline,
and responsibility down into specific actions each student
can do every day. Essentially, the author is talking about
the nuts and bolts of Emotional Growth programs, and might
hold some good ideas for teachers in those schools, and parents
in trying to discipline their own children. |
