Extreme Teaching

Keen Babbage is associate principal at the Bryan Station Traditional Magnet School, a middle school that is part of the Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, Kentucky. He is the author of three other books published by ScarecrowEducation: High Impact Teaching: Overcoming Student Apathy, 911—The School Administrator's Guide to Crisis Management, and Meetings for School-Based Decision Making.

• Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1 Reality Chapter 4 2 Opportunity and Challenge Chapter 5 3 How to Implement Extreme Teaching Chapter 6 4 A Classroom Visit Chapter 7 5 Extreme Teaching: Thoughts, Hopes Chapter 8 Epilogue Chapter 9 Index Chapter 10 About the Author

Most of us are well versed in the concept of prior learning. Yet, Babbage encourages us to think deeply and to find and acknowledge students' prior learning, which exists on most topics although it may?or may not?have come from a formal lesson in school.He gives creative examples that identify students' prior learning and how it relates to new content to be learned....Babbage...provides examples of lesson plans that pertain to such topics as fractions, paragraph writing, reading comprehension, supply anddemand, multiplication, architecture, government, mathematics word problems, graphs, energy, motion and focus, chronological order, comparing and contrasting, accepting responsibility, the scientific method and others. Babbage does explain the term extreme teaching and provides us with enough data and information to enable us to do it....teachers and administrators...will benefit from his work..