Critical Literacy/Critical Teaching: Tools for Preparing Responsive Teachers (Language and Literacy Series)

This book describes and documents an exciting new approach to educating literacy teachers. The authors show how to help teachers develop their own critical literacy, while also preparing them to accelerate the literacy learning of struggling readers. The text takes readers inside a literacy lab in a high-poverty urban elementary school, reveals the instructional approach in action, and provides many excellent examples of critically responsive teaching. Featuring a synthesis of several fields of theory and research, this book:
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<li> Illustrates teacher preparation and development as personal and social transformation―demonstrating that this process requires changing the ways teachers think about students, language, culture, literacy, learning, and themselves as educators.</li>
<li> Provides pedagogical tools―including the history of the innovative literacy lab, the context of the instructional interactions, and the transition from a university-based to a school-based project.</li>
<li> Combines critical and accelerative literacy instruction―showing how teachers can accelerate the slowest developing readers in their classrooms and also build a sense of engagement for students with the social world.</li>
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Reference

Rogers, Rebecca

Dozier, Cheryl

Johnston, Peter

Words, Language & Grammar

Teachers' College Press

This book describes and documents an exciting new approach to educating literacy teachers. The authors show how to help teachers develop their own critical literacy, while also preparing them to accelerate the literacy learning of struggling readers. The text takes readers inside a literacy lab in a high-poverty urban elementary school, reveals the instructional approach in action, and provides many excellent examples of critically responsive teaching. Featuring a synthesis of several fields of theory and research, this book: Illustrates teacher preparation and development as personal and social transformation―demonstrating that this process requires changing the ways teachers think about students, language, culture, literacy, learning, and themselves as educators. Provides pedagogical tools―including the history of the innovative literacy lab, the context of the instructional interactions, and the transition from a university-based to a school-based project. Combines critical and accelerative literacy instruction―showing how teachers can accelerate the slowest developing readers in their classrooms and also build a sense of engagement for students with the social world.

In Responsive Literacy Coaching, Cheryl Dozier draws on twenty-four years of experience as an elementary classroom teacher and teacher educator to present both a theoretical framework and practical tools to enact responsive literacy coaching. Through thoughtful and purposeful coaching, teachers learn effective ways to improve literacy instruction and student achievement.
 The range of tools offered in the text invite customization based on the reader's specific instructional context. This framework empowers literacy coaches and teachers through conversation, sustained engagement, and reflective analysis. Dozier argues that at its best, literacy coaching is responsive, collegial, thoughtful, thought-provoking, deliberate, reflective, and transferable. In this book she invites readers to enter into a coaching dialogue, through:vignettes that bring coaching interactions to life;prompts to engage both teachers and students;occasions for collaborative reflection; frequently-asked questions.
As literacy tasks are documented and analyzed, coaching interactions logged and categorized, and assessment scores scrutinized, Dozier cautions coaches to avoid being so caught up in the doing of coaching that one forgets the purpose behind it. In this book she provides an occasion for them to step back, and ask, what is the goal of literacy coaching? What kind of literacy environments and experiences are we creating for our schools and our students? What is possible as we engage in transformative literacy practices? While the tools offered in this book do not provide a “quick fix,” they foster critical thinking and sustained inquiry that leads to positive change for both teachers and students.

Responsive Literacy Coaching: Tools for Creating and Sustaining Purposeful Change

Routledge

Online Professional Development for Teachers: Emerging Models and Methods

In Online Professional Development for Teachers, the authors look closely at exemplary online professional development programs, compare them carefully with one another, and draw helpful conclusions about them--both for those who develop online programs and for teachers and administrators in search of professional development programs that make a difference. How can professional development for teachers be more efficient and effective? This essential question lies at the heart of this timely and useful book. In an era marked by a heightened emphasis on school reform, the education and professional development of teachers is widely regarded as the keystone to educational improvement. Recently a bewildering array of online professional development programs has arisen. But how effective are these programs and how do they compare with one another? A book that brings clarity and insight to this burgeoning and influential field, Online Professional Development for Teachers will be of great value to researchers, policymakers, administrators, and teachers as they work to make the most of online professional development.

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Critical Literacy/Critical Teaching: Tools for Preparing Responsive Teachers (Language and Literacy Series)

Critical Literacy/Critical Teaching: Tools for Preparing Responsive Teachers (Language and Literacy Series)

Responsive Literacy Coaching: Tools for Creating and Sustaining Purposeful Change

Critical Literacy/Critical Teaching: Tools for Preparing Responsive Teachers (Language and Literacy Series)