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Using The Original Approach To Teach Shakespeare, Bruce Robbins
Using The Original Approach To Teach Shakespeare, Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins
By using a teaching method simulating the experience of the actors of the Elizabethan stage, Bruce Robbins brought to the classroom a fresh approach to teaching Shakespeare. Close attention to structure and individual words helped students find cues from the text to enhance their understanding
Classroom Filmmaking: A Learning Experience, Bruce Robbins, Don Evans
Classroom Filmmaking: A Learning Experience, Bruce Robbins, Don Evans
Bruce Robbins
No abstract provided.
Good Fences, Good Neighbors, Bruce Robbins
Growing Into Leadership: Profiles From A "Good" Department, Bruce Robbins, Driek Zirinsky
Growing Into Leadership: Profiles From A "Good" Department, Bruce Robbins, Driek Zirinsky
Bruce Robbins
The veteran teacher is often a leader in the English language arts department and mentor to the younger teachers. One such department and its teachers are profiled.
The D&D Boys: What’S Wrong With This Picture?, Bruce Robbins, Maggie Chase
The D&D Boys: What’S Wrong With This Picture?, Bruce Robbins, Maggie Chase
Bruce Robbins
No abstract provided.
What’S My Line? Considering The Teacher Educator's Role When Action Research Is Added To Student Teaching, Bruce Robbins
What’S My Line? Considering The Teacher Educator's Role When Action Research Is Added To Student Teaching, Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins
No abstract provided.
Staffing The Drama Program: An Alternative View, Bruce Robbins
Staffing The Drama Program: An Alternative View, Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins
School drama directors--who are often responsible for producing up to four plays per year, along with contests, festivals, and club, community, and fund-raising activities--are prone to burnout. Robbins offers an alternative proposal for staffing the drama program.
Playwriting: Not Just For Dramatists, Bruce Robbins
Playwriting: Not Just For Dramatists, Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins
No abstract provided.
Bringing Workplace Literacy Into The Classroom, Bruce Robbins, Angela Harvey, Ruthanne Beddoe, Pam Walker, Dedra Scoville, Vicki Malan, Bernice Scarborough
Bringing Workplace Literacy Into The Classroom, Bruce Robbins, Angela Harvey, Ruthanne Beddoe, Pam Walker, Dedra Scoville, Vicki Malan, Bernice Scarborough
Bruce Robbins
No abstract provided.
Foregrounding The Background, Bruce Robbins
Foregrounding The Background, Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins
Robbins discusses how to better prepare students for reading the classics. Rather than providing a lengthy introduction into the history of the time period, teachers should simply raise an interesting question about the time period or unfamiliar elements in the story to pique the student's interest.
The Teacher's Role In Teaching Shakespeare, Bruce Robbins
The Teacher's Role In Teaching Shakespeare, Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins
Enjoyment of literature is the key that unlocks all subsequent stages of literary development. But enjoyment has a strange leprechaun quality. When you pursue it directly, you rarely find it. However, when you go about your business with a positive attitude, sufficient faith, and very little cynicism, enjoyment often comes along and taps you on the shoulder. It is particularly accommodating to people totally involved in what they are doing, such as students and teachers who have become engaged dramatically with literature.
The Honors Portfolio: One Case Of Departmental Innovation, Bruce Robbins, Driek Zirinsky
The Honors Portfolio: One Case Of Departmental Innovation, Bruce Robbins, Driek Zirinsky
Bruce Robbins
No abstract provided.
Weaving Workplace Writing Into The English Classroom, Bruce Robbins
Weaving Workplace Writing Into The English Classroom, Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins
Often the question surrounding workplace literacy is not so much whether English teachers should bring some workplace reading and writing into the curriculum, but how to do so in an already overcrowded curriculum. Robbins suggests some ways that teachers might weave workplace literacy into the existing fabric of the classroom without displacing the important things they teach now.
Teachers As Writers: Tension Between Theory And Practice, Bruce Robbins
Teachers As Writers: Tension Between Theory And Practice, Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins
"Teachers of writing should be writers themselves." Of course. Common sense suggests that teachers ought to do-or be able to do-that which they teach. That teachers of writing should themselves be writers is a familiar idea, one especially associated with process-based approaches to writing instruction. The maxim suggests that many teachers do not write and, more important, that if teachers were writers, the effectiveness of their composition instruction would improvein part because their own writing experiences would draw their conscious attention to those composing processes they need to teach students.
Vaporizing Classroom Walls: The Writing Workshop Goes Electric, Bruce Robbins, Kris Fischer
Vaporizing Classroom Walls: The Writing Workshop Goes Electric, Bruce Robbins, Kris Fischer
Bruce Robbins
Kurt shows Donna his poem, which begins, "My hand, writing words into pictures . . . ." She responds, "I find it hard to write feelings that expose me to the reader. It is something that I am really working on in my own writing. I wish I could be as open as you are being." Donna talks to Kurt about how she understands his poem, and he replies, "Thank you for your comments on my poem. You are the only one that I have shared it with." The usual peer writing conference? Not exactly. Kurt and Donna had never …
Worth The Effort, Bruce Robbins