Becoming a Teacher of Writing in Elementary Classrooms

Becoming a Teacher of Writing in Elementary Classrooms nurtures teachers’ identities as writers, connects to the realities of writing instruction in real and diverse classrooms, and encourages critical and creative thinking. This text is about writing instruction as a journey teachers and students embark on together. The focus is on learning how to teach writing through specific teaching and learning structures found in the Writing Studio: mini-lessons; teacher and peer conferencing; guided writing; and sharing, celebrating, and broadcasting writing. Pedagogical features include teaching structures and strategies, "Problematizing Practice" classroom scenarios, assessment resources, and a Companion Website. Because a teacher who views him or herself as a writer is best positioned to implement the Writing Studio, a parallel text, Becoming-writer, give readers space to consider who they are as a writer, their personal process as a writer, and who they might become as a writer.

Kalmbach Phillips, Donna

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Routledge

Becoming a Teacher through Action Research is specifically written for those students seeking initial teacher licensure. Written to support these pre-service teachers, it recognizes that the process of doing action research can serve as a vehicle for assuming the professional identity of a teacher and deals directly with challenges and dilemmas of doing action research as a student teacher. The book is divided into three roads: <ul>
<li>the main road, 'Doing Action Research' provides direct instruction for developing a critical question and research design, followed by instruction on how to interpret data </li> <li>the side-roads, 'Cultural Context' and 'Self-Study' support teacher identity development by allowing opportunities for the reader to analyse and deconstruct both self and cultural paradigms surrounding teaching/researching</li> <li>the final chapters of the book support the reader in going public with their action research and using the process of action research to move into the first year of teaching and planning for continued professional development. </li>
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The book is interactive, inviting the reader to respond to text by writing and/or drawing responses. The companion CD allows the reader to either read and interact with the text completely electronically or use a combination of paper text and CD. The CD also includes downloadable templates, interactive charts/graphs and full text examples of student written action research papers.

Becoming a Teacher through Action Research: Process, Context, and Self-Study

Politics & Social Sciences

Carr, Kevin

Sociology

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