Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2008 5 Comments »
This week, I truly enjoyed reading Ramsey’s chapter on How to Say the Right Thing to Students. Ramsey gave specific suggestions and lists of what to do and what not to do. Ramsey discusses how to talk to students, carry out classroom discussions, how to praise, and how to discipline. A couple points that really [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
Rex Gibson (1998), in Teaching Shakespeare, discusses ways to study Shakespeare’s characters in the classroom. In keeping with his view that these plays should be treated as scripts, not text, Gibson suggests various activities that parallel what Shakespearean (and other) actors do to get “into character.” These are interesting. I have seen such activities done [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2008 5 Comments »
In his 1994 article, Toward Thoughtful Curriculum: Fostering Discipline-Based Conversation in the English Language Arts Classroom, Arthur Applebee brings up an interesting question through a student’s shared thoughts. Brett, the student, explains that his teacher asks questions in order to try to get students to think for themselves, but she is really looking for a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2008 2 Comments »
While I understand that there needs to be some statewide way of assessing schools and students, I agree with the IRA that these tests do not “yield enough information to make an important instructional decision” (International Reading Association). Perhaps these tests are useful in some degree, but they should not determine which track a child [...]
