FREE MARVA COLLINS WAY: RETURNING TO EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION PDF Marva Collins,Civia Tamarkin | 242 pages | 10 Jan 2000 | Tarcher/Putnam,US | 9780874775723 | English | New York, United States Marva Collins' Way: Updated by Marva Collins See more about this book on Archive. In Marva Collins Way: Returning to Excellence in Education work, Marva Collins recounts her successful teaching strategies and offers inspirational advice on how to motivate children to fulfill their potential. This updated edition contains a new epilogue for parents and teachers. Collins also shunned the audiovisual aids so common in other classrooms because she believed that they created an unnecessary distance between the teacher and the student. By offering a plethora of individual attention tempered with strict discipline and a focus on reading skills, Collins was able to raise the test scores of many students, who in turn went on to college and excelled. Marva Collins has received many accolades in recognition of her outstanding work with children. A made-for-television movie titled, The Marva Collins Story starred Cicely Tyson and Morgan Freeman first aired inand is still presented on television. Previews available in: English. Add another edition? Learn about the virtual Library Leaders Forum happening this month. Marva Collins' Way Marva Collins. Borrow Listen. Want to Read. Download for print-disabled. Check nearby libraries Library. Share this book Facebook. Last edited by Clean Up Bot. February 14, History. An edition of Marva Collins' Way This edition published in by J. Written in English — pages. Marva Collins' Marva Collins Way: Returning to Excellence in EducationJ. Tarcher, Distributed by Houghton Mifflin. People Marva Collins. Places ChicagoIllinois. Edition Notes Bibliography: p. Classifications Dewey Decimal Class C62 A35 Lists containing this Book tabby from T Martinez to read this year from amit goyal. 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To ask other readers Marva Collins Way: Returning to Excellence in Education about Marva Collins' Wayplease sign up. What do you think about this book and Marva Collins way of teaching? See 1 question about Marva Collins' Way…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Marva Collins' Way: Updated. May 23, Leslie Reese rated it really liked it Shelves: education. First published inthis book chronicles how Marvawho was born to Henry and Bessie Wright in Monroeville, Alabama in came to realize a passion for teaching and went on to found Westside Preparatory School in Chicago in The school closed inbut in this age of distress in the American public schooling system, I hunger for stories that illustrate the challenges and joys of learning to love learning between teachers and students in classrooms. The raging debate seems only First published inthis book chronicles how Marvawho was born to Henry and Bessie Wright in Monroeville, Alabama in came to realize a passion for teaching and went on to found Westside Preparatory School in Chicago in Education is rarely spoken of for its range of enduring skills and values for personal and social empowerment and enjoyment. I wanted to read this book because I remembered seeing the television movie The Marva Collins Story"starring Cicely Tysonin She and her husband possessed character traits that I recognized from being a daughter of black people who embodied resourcefulness, self-determination, southern roots and pride, and a belief in the value of education. Marva Collins lived in the contemporary world and was not a long-dead [s]hero of black history. Her dress and speech were impeccable and she was a champion of childrensetting the bar high for the students in her classrooms with persistent love, knowledge, and common sense. Despite the proven success of her many students over the years, and her general self-assured tone and belief in her methods, in Marva Collins Way: Returning to Excellence in Education book Marva Collins shares her doubts and vulnerabilities. I wished I could be more like everyone else. I even practiced being more casual about things, leaving dinner dishes overnight in the sink. Collins had a single-minded devotion to her students, yet often alienated her colleagues by situating herself apart from them. All-in-all a great resource for anyone and everyone who gives a damn about not wasting the intelligence and talent of young people. The reading lists are largely derived from the Western canon and may lack diversity by standards; still, I could stand to add many of the titles to my TBR list. One reviewer of this book noted that teachers today would not be able to do things that Marva Collins did, such as hugging her students, sometimes sharing experiences from her own life in the course of teaching, and taking students who came to school filthy to the bathroom to scrub their faces and arms. Marva Collins was a powerhouse, a tremendous force-of-one who approached the education of children with religious zeal. Jul 07, Mallory rated it it was amazing. If every teacher had Marva Collins' philosophy of education, our society would be in much better shape! Jan 01, Kianaw rated it really liked it. This is the book that inspired me to teach. I love Marva Collins! Apr 09, Sabrina rated it really liked it. Marva has strong character and saintly devotion to teaching, in the 70s, she fought hard with the flawed education system and finally started her own school implementing her belief in teaching from Marva Collins Way: Returning to Excellence in Education, kindgarteners, and first graders, to junior high school students. Some of them made amazingly achievements and jumped two or three levels above their ages. She just stuck to the old good ways and enforced it with strong will. At her Marva Collins Way: Returning to Excellence in Education, the public education in U. Even the middle class students were suffering from the teaching method dominated from kindergarten Marva Collins Way: Returning to Excellence in Education high school, which led to a large number of functional illiterates. She grew up in a small town in Alabama where segregation and racism towards black American still existed. But her father was well educated and rich and was looked up to in black community, as well as among white people. No one seemed to have any pride anymore. In Alabama the poor blacks used to wash down every inch of their unpainted wooden shacks with Octagon Laundry Soap. They cut down branches from trees and tied them together with rags or string to make brushbrooms. The one thing everyone in Alabama had was pride. That pride was a consistent part of a southern upbringing. The poor children came to school with neatly sewn patches on their clothes. Their clothes may have been old, but they were clean. If you have a dirty water bucket, you were a disgrace, and if you drank from the dipper instead of a glass, you were considered a heathen. When the neighbor next door saw you mowing your lawn, he would mow his. And on Sundays, after the church services, each family set out a picnic dinner and everyone saw who could have the best food. I care about you, I love you. You can pay people to teach, but not to care. Students who were used to being neglected or categorized as learning disabilities, abandoned by school after school were accepted by Marva. There is no magic here. Collins is no miracle worker. I do not walk on water, I do not part the sea. I just love children and work harder Marva Collins Way: Returning to Excellence in Education a lot of people, and so will you. And these were not even the all that she taught. She aimed at teaching the total child, teaching them how to deal with real life. A lot of her students came from poor black families with parents who cared little about their education, and in 70s, black students were taught separately with easier books and the society had low expectation. Many could not speak correct English, had their own lingo and lived in ghettos. And the thoughts and ideas in your heads make up what you are. I was concerned about everything—attitudes, manners, grooming. I told them to walk with their heads up and their shoulders back, to have dignity and confidence. And I cautioned them that what a person thinks of himself will determine his destiny. Those were the things my parents told me, and I still believe them. As a teacher I now try to teach children how to deal with life. More than reading, writing, and arithmetic, I want to give them a philosophy for living. About Self-Reliance. They will do our thinking for us. We must each be the captain of our fate and the master of our soul.