The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child Hardcover - 2003

Ron Clark’s ESSENTIAL 55 rules were created to help him control his first class in rural North Carolina where the students had little interest in lessons, and the parents believed school was extended day care. In teaching these students to be orderly, respectful and to feel appreciated, he took a group of below-average students and turned them into stars (for example he took 5th grade students who were reading at a 3rd grade level to reading at 6th grade level and loving it). He continued his mission in Harlem, where he found a school that needed him the most and worked the same magic. But it’s not magic. Ron Clark knows how to teach by using discipline and affection in almost equal measure. He devotes his time to teaching these kids how to live in the world so that they have respect for themselves and those around them-rules that apply to all of us. Some of the ESSENTIAL 55 include: how to accept compliments, how to return a greeting, how to gracefully lose a game. In hearing Ron Clark’s engaging voice, combined with his confident manner at changing the lives of these kids for the better, any reader will feel she can influence a student, a young child or a son graduating from college and going out into the world.

Details

• Title The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child
• Author Ron Clark
• Binding Hardcover
• Edition 1st
• Pages 224
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Hachette Books, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• Date May 14, 2003
• ISBN 9781401300012 / 1401300014
• Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
• Dimensions 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (19.30 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
• Ages 18 to UP years
• Grade levels 13 - UP
• Library of Congress subjects Conduct of life, Teaching
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002032927
• Dewey Decimal Code 371.102