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Review title: Good Words But Not Practical
Product review: Easy reading, mostly well written and a good book for a basic class or self study on differentiation but like most educational publications today, idealistic and not really practical. It is the same canned information about how we are supposed to differentiate 28 kids in a class, be sensitive and understand every single and background, be able to read kids' minds, and of course, have students lead the class. We discuss it in class, smile and nod at how great the ideas are and then go back to the reality of our classrooms which consist of traditional, systematic, direct instruction because of the pressures we have for test scores and "no Child Left Behind" There are some very good samples and charts that give very clear examples of differentiation...the metaphors and analogies are kind of vague and corny...definitely not a "how to" book....basically a big, long winded, opinion paper.
