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Teaching Needy Kids in Our Backward System Kindle Edition
Siegfried Engelmann (Author) Find all the books, read about the author and more. See search results for this author |
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The most incredible of Engelmann's battles occurred in Project Follow Through, the largest and most definitive educational experiment ever conducted, involving 180 communities and over 200,000 at-risk children in grades kindergarten through 3. To discover which approach was most effective, Follow Through installed and tested 22 models of teaching disadvantaged children, from 1968 to 1977. The models covered the spectrum of approaches that are in schools today, from the discovery-oriented approaches to those based on behavioral principals of reinforcement.
The evaluation measured the children's achievements in reading, math, language, and spelling. The study was also designed to discover which models were superior in teaching basic skills and which excelled in teaching higher-order thinking skills, also which models had kids with the strongest sense of personal responsibility and which kids had the highest self-images. The results astounded educators and made a mockery of their predictions.
There were not various winners, but only one winner, and that one excelled in every category measured. The winning model was designed by Zig Engelmann and his colleagues - Direct Instruction.
Why haven't you heard about Follow Through, Direct Instruction, or Zig Engelmann? Because Follow Through outcomes were never disseminated, never made public, and never used to influence educational decision-making. Why would the Feds spend half a billion to fund Follow Through and never disseminate the results? Read the book and discover the astonishing truths.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMay 18 2015
- File size4716 KB
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- ASIN : B00XWEQ5NC
- Publisher : NIFDI Press (May 18 2015)
- Language : English
- File size : 4716 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
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- Print length : 379 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #760,705 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author

Siegfried “Zig” Engelmann (1931-2019) was professor emeritus of education at the University of Oregon and the primary architect of the Direct Instruction (DI) programs, an approach based on the principles originated in the Bereiter-Engelmann Preschool in the late 1960s. Engelmann was the senior author of more than 100 curricula using DI principles and numerous other articles and books. He had a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Illinois and an honorary doctorate from the Psychology Department of Western Michigan University. He was the 1994 recipient of the Fred S. Keller Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Experimental Analysis of Behavior. In 2000 the journal Remedial and Special Education named him as one of the 54 most influential people in the history of special education, and in 2002 the Council of Scientific Society Presidents awarded him the 2002 Award of Achievement in Education Research.
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In a similar manner, Dr. Engelmann's gripping journal of his forty-two year travel through ed land and his novel discoveries and fascinating inventions could serve us well. We may view his book as a travelogue with a wealth of "how to" information for those who may seek to follow him. He guides you successfully around the quicksand of Paiget-spawned mythology and the infamous truth-devouring bandersnatches who inhabit the dark underworlds of the treacherous territory we call our education system.
Or a second perspective of 'Teaching Needy Kids in Our Backward System' could be as an informal revelation for the layman of Dr. Engelmann's theories, now scientifically proven beyond any dispute, which should occupy a place in education similar to Newton's Principia Mathematica in physics or James Clark Maxwell's A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field dealing with his field equations.
Finally from a third point of view, Engelmann's 'Teaching Needy Kids' could rank with Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' which exposed the horrors of the nation's meat packing industry and resulted in the establishment of the FDA and the closure of many food processors. It could even rank with Abraham Flexner's 'Report' in 1910 that produced a national outcry to revamp the country's medical standards causing nearly half the country's medical schools to close.
If you want to go to the South Pole, you must read Shackleton. If you want to journey in ed land, become familiar with cutting-edge technologies, or learn about the real child abuse that undergirds the ed industry, you must read Engelmann.



