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Models of Education: Overview
In an effort to gain some clarity for myself, I’m going to explore some of the issues that surround the models of education that we’ve been offered and maybe find a comfortable place to stand within the overall discourse. I found an entry point for this inquiry in a book chapter, “Whole Language Within a Broader Perspective” from Constance Weaver’s, Understanding Whole Language: From Principles to Practice.
Blogging the Literacy Discourse
Speaking publicly with an authoritative voice about literacy is a little harder than just sitting down and freewheeling about the latest stray thought to cross my mind. I’ve gone back to some of the books I have on my shelf. I’m reading and re-reading things that I’d forgotten about.
The Blogger’s Stance
In an article about active comprehension strategies, Michael Pressley delineated the strategies that effective readers demonstrate.
Subverting the Curriculum with Reader’s Workshop
Mosaic of Thought was published in 1997. I didn’t find it until about 2001. It was a book that changed my vision of what it could mean to be a teacher. It changed the way I read.
A Brief History of Comprehension
The history of literacy theory became important for me when I chose to become a teacher, although I didn’t know that until I went back to the university after teaching for 20 years.
How to Make a Very Big Hole in a Sheet of Paper
In science lessons these activities are intended to serve as discrepant events that arouse curiosity and stimulate questions which would lead to inquiry.
Inquiring with [Real] Old Technology
Do lessons have to be organized into discreet units that are taught in an ordered way for true learning to happen?
Reading the World
The way I see it, any interpretive act qualifies as reading.
Naive Misconceptions and Reading “Errors”
The subscription I have is for the grades 4-6 version, so it’s a little bit difficult for a lot of fourth graders. We work through the feature articles as a class when I think there’s something there worth paying attention to.
Anatomy of a Test Item
Three days with the Test Item Writer Workgroup in Fairbanks taught me something about test questions. We all know that asking questions and making tests is [part of] what a teacher does. But how many teachers have specific training for question-asking? I never had any. Even if classroom teachers don’t want to think too [...]
