Featuring engaging narratives, this “how-to” book delves into reflection as a concept and provides specific, replicable tools for professional practice. Each chapter draws on a particular school situation demonstrating the value of teacher reflection and describing the nuts and bolts of the process, including protocols for handling many different circumstances.
Written by public school teachers who offer lessons learned and strategies that work, this volume:
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<li> Provides insights to help teachers build reflective practice with their students, including protocols for classroom problem solving.</li>
<li> Presents scenarios for individual students, their parents, and teachers to talk together about a student’s performance, including protocols for conducting family meetings. </li>
<li> Shows what can happen when teachers come together to share stories of their daily lives, including protocols for conducting a focus group. </li>
<li> Offers advice for reflecting alone and with a group, including protocols for both types of reflection.</li>
<li> Tells stories of parents, a university supervisor, a district administrator, and a policymaker engaged in the process of reflection, including protocols for collaborative assessment.</li>
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At the Heart of Teaching: A Guide to Reflective Practice (the series on school reform)

Education & Teaching

Appleby, John

McEntee, Grace Hall

Dowd, JoAnne

Grant, Jan

Hole, Simon

Silva, Peggy C.

Check, Joseph

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

Featuring engaging narratives, this “how-to” book delves into reflection as a concept and provides specific, replicable tools for professional practice. Each chapter draws on a particular school situation demonstrating the value of teacher reflection and describing the nuts and bolts of the process, including protocols for handling many different circumstances.Written by public school teachers who offer lessons learned and strategies that work, this volume: Provides insights to help teachers build reflective practice with their students, including protocols for classroom problem solving. Presents scenarios for individual students, their parents, and teachers to talk together about a student’s performance, including protocols for conducting family meetings.  Shows what can happen when teachers come together to share stories of their daily lives, including protocols for conducting a focus group.  Offers advice for reflecting alone and with a group, including protocols for both types of reflection. Tells stories of parents, a university supervisor, a district administrator, and a policymaker engaged in the process of reflection, including protocols for collaborative assessment.

Where Storms are Beautiful is a personal narrative of Grace Hall McEntee and her husband, two teachers, who commuted in a small boat from their home on an island to their work on the mainland.Grace and Matt live on the edge. Their home sits at the top of an embankment facing north. Like harbor seals and goldeneyes, they are migrational creatures; seasons and storms shape their travel on the water. Where they live and how they travel has changed them. The island is their place to dwell as well as their place to grow and thrive.Storms is the story of their experiences and their learning. Each day they launched themselves into an adventure, through which they gained practical knowledge and understanding. On the water they maneuvered through fog and ice. On the island they engaged in communal problem solving. In the process of traveling on the water every day and living in their island community, they discovered that storms are beautiful.

Where Storms are Beautiful

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

BookSurge Publishing

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