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Some Suggestions For Volunteers Facilitating Literature Circles, Annmarie Alberton Gunn
Some Suggestions For Volunteers Facilitating Literature Circles, Annmarie Alberton Gunn
Literacy Practice and Research
As a former elementary teacher and now a literacy teacher educator, I like to get back into elementary classrooms. This year, I asked my child’s teacher if I could volunteer one day a week for an hour in any way that could be helpful. She agreed, and I was particularly excited when this exemplary classroom teacher asked me to facilitate literature circles with a group of third grade students.
Transformations In Teacher Candidates’ Development As Literacy Teachers In A Summer Literacy Camp: A Sociocultural Perspective, Janet Richards
Transformations In Teacher Candidates’ Development As Literacy Teachers In A Summer Literacy Camp: A Sociocultural Perspective, Janet Richards
Literacy Practice and Research
In this inquiry I applied an innovative sociocultural framework to explore transformations in preservice teachers’ development as literacy teachers as they worked with children at-risk in a summer literacy camp. The camp incorporated a community of practice model in which teams of master’s and doctoral students mentored small groups of preservice teachers. In this study I explored preservice teachers ’ learning following Rogoff’s (1995,1997) notions of the personal, interpersonal, and community planes of analysis. I also employed a postmodernist crystallization imagery to capture multiple perspectives on the preservice teachers’ growth as literacy teachers. The study assigns importance to the contextual …