Using Literacy Coaching to Improve
Your School
Read the Overview (PDF)
to Study
Group and Coaching Resources to learn more about how literacy coaches
support teachers in becoming more thoughtful and knowledgeable about their teaching.
Find a thoughtful exploration of the challenges of literacy coaching in "What
Are the Issues that Study Groups Confront?" from Teacher
Study Groups: Building Community through Dialogue and Reflection. For
ongoing support, Voices from the Middle subscribers can check out "What
Is a Literacy Coach?" from the new column, From the Coaches' Corner.
For additional ideas, visit the Literacy
Coaching Teacher Resource Collection.
Films in the Classroom
The Jazz Singer, the first "talking"
motion picture, debuted on October 6, 1927. For related ideas for your classroom,
visit the ReadWriteThink
calendar entry. For an interesting contrast, Teaching English in the Two-Year
College subscribers can read "Unspoken Content: Silent Film in the ESL Classroom" to facilitate the development of ESL students' critical
thinking and writing skills.
Extend your study to the wide range of films now available
with Great
Films and How to Teach Them. Check out the book's study
guide for Schindler's
List to find excellent suggestions on how to use
films in the classroom. Reprinted from California English, "Viewing
the Films: Not Whether or Not, but How?" explores why films are such
an important part of the language arts curriculum.
And don't forget to include the film
adaptations in your participation in NCTE's
1984+20 Project!
Reflecting on Our Teaching
See how reflection adds
to teacher preparation with "Language,
Inquiry, and the Heart of Learning: Reflection in an English Methods Course"
from the April
2004 issue of English Education.
Subscribers
to Teaching
English in the Two-Year College can read "On
Keeping an Academic Journal" in the September
2004 issue for details on how reflection can improve composition instruction. To
explore one teacher's reflection on her career, subscribers to English Journal can
read Charleen Silva Delfino's "One
Teacher's Journey to Professionalism,"
which includes details on how the author's experiences in many classroom situations
shaped her teaching.
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