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Reading And Teaching: A Book About Learning, Catherine F. Compton-Lilly
Reading And Teaching: A Book About Learning, Catherine F. Compton-Lilly
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
The series editors, Daniel Liston and Ken Zeichner, tell us that the book Reading and Teaching is designed to help teachers engage with “crucial issues that all teachers need to address.” I believe they are right. This book does not offer simple solutions, bulleted lists of recommendations, or formulas for becoming a star teacher. This book makes you think good and hard about being a literacy educator and lays bare the complexities of teaching literacy well.
Editorial Introduction, Catherine F. Compton-Lilly
Editorial Introduction, Catherine F. Compton-Lilly
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
While Networks has always been an online journal, in the past year, with the help of a dedicated and patient staff at my university, we can now manage the entire review and publication process online. The new system affects the ways prospective authors submit papers to the journal.
Art And Design: Teaching Siddhartha In A Secondary Urban High School, David Lee Carlson
Art And Design: Teaching Siddhartha In A Secondary Urban High School, David Lee Carlson
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
This paper describes, in detail, the process I followed to plan a unit on Hermann Hesse’s novel, Siddhartha. The primary argument of this paper is that inner-city, undereducated students can understand and relate to culturally disparate literary works when teachers plan backwards, develop art projects, and design thematically-based writing assignments. This article has been divided into three sections: a summary of the novel, a brief review of professional theories and research on teaching literature to secondary students, and an in-depth look at the student assignments.
Investigating An Expeditionary Learning Project, Mary Jensen, Jodie Duckett
Investigating An Expeditionary Learning Project, Mary Jensen, Jodie Duckett
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
As I read about the core practices of Expeditionary Learning, I became intrigued and began to question how an ExpeditionaryLearning Project (ELP) is built and developed in an early childhood classroom. From studies describing various Expeditionary Learning Projects, I identified five key themes in their development: 1. the importance of discussion and “Science Talk” in a project; 2. the importance of fieldwork in a project; 3. how students develop ideas in a project; 4. how a teacher promotes student ownership of learning through a project; and 5. how a teacher prepares and plans a project on an individual basis and …
Locating Reflective Practices: Findings From A Self-Study, Lourdes Zaragoza Mitchel
Locating Reflective Practices: Findings From A Self-Study, Lourdes Zaragoza Mitchel
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
This article reports the findings of an action research project conducted by a group of teachers and professors at a Professional Development School (PDS) in suburban New Jersey. The study’s purpose was 1) to examine whether participation in the PDS activities increased in-service teachers’ reflective practices and 2) to provide the PDS leadership with data on how reflection might be increased throughout the district. Although student learning is the ultimate goal of the PDS partnership, the focus of the study is on teacher reflection as a first step towards improving students’ achievement. The findings speak to the need for teachers …