Making It Real: Case Stories for Secondary Teachers By Julie A. Gorlewski and David A. Gorlewski

Making It Real: Case Stories for Secondary Teachers By Julie A. Gorlewski and David A. Gorlewski

The book Making It Real: Case Stories for Secondary Teachers is written by Julie A. Gorlewski , and David A. Gorlewski and they have described about the assessment of the teaching-learning process. They have used real life case studies to make abstract ideas concretely relative for the readers and to enforce reflecting thinking. It creates scope for the reader to place themselves in the situation and analyze the solutions. They emphasized the application of the acronym ‘EXPAND’ which stands for:

·         EXplaining the problem

·         Perspective’s identification

·         Assumptions to be discussed

·         Not there (missing information)

·         Do next (steps to be taken to resolve the case study.

The book is divided into 11 chapters where in-dept information about each chapter is provided. Various stages of development in a learner are discussed like the cognitive development, linguistic development, social development, emotional development. Also, there are various differences in the learners on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, age, language, etc. The authors have discussed about the different environments a teach collaborates with. The teacher is the one who has mastery of the content and creates learning experiences for the students. The teacher is the one who will enable the students to apply what is taught in school to real life to make learning effective.

The teacher uses varied methods of assessment to monitor the progress of the learners. They are the ones who constantly attend training and evaluation sessions to keep themselves updated with the current trends in education. There are no correct answers mentioned after the questions asked as everyone thinks differently and the writers believe that no answer is incorrect. This book aims to focus not only on the standardization of tests but on the time that teachers spend being in contact with the students. Along with this responsibility the teacher has to make decisions about various matters like planning, development of the learner, assessment of the students, etc.

The examples of students, teachers, educators, parents from the case studies are taking into consideration from daily situations, the relationships and conflicts existing in all schools. Unlike any other book, here, the authors haven’t mentioned any secrets or formulas to be implemented as a teacher rather they have left that to the readers to come up with their own ideas.

Reviewer,

50. Cheryl Viegas

Bibliography:

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/inflibnet-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3034717

https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Making_it_Real/k0Pjgv-qHloC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

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