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May 24, 2007

C O N T E N T S

1) The Power of Our Words
2) Author Conversations: Joan Brodsky Schur
3) PD Corner: Questioning
4) Making authentic connections with science

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1) The Power of Our Words
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The language and style that teachers use when speaking with 
students has a profound effect on learning, classroom management, 
and children's self-control and sense of belonging. What kind of 
language should teachers strive to adopt, and what kind should 
they avoid?

The Power of Our Words is a new book that provides practical 
advice starting with the very first page. Author Paula Denton 
presents five general guidelines for teacher language and then 
explores a variety of situations and communication strategies such 
as envisioning, questioning, listening, and redirecting. Filled 
with tips, real-life anecdotes, and concrete examples, The Power 
of Our Words also explains the principles behind using 
constructive language in the classroom.

Published by the Northeast Foundation for Children (creators of 
The Responsive Classroom), The Power of Our Words is available 
through Stenhouse and your Stenhouse distributor. You can browse 
the entire text online for a limited time: 

http://www.stenhouse.com/8918.asp?r=n113

The Power of Our Words:
Teaching Language That Helps Children Learn
Paula Denton * 180 pp/paper * $22.00
Published by Northeast Foundation for Children
 http://www.stenhouse.com/8918.asp?r=n113

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2) Author Conversations: Joan Brodsky Schur
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"History is too often events that kids have to memorize without 
really imagining them."

Joan Brodsky Schur, author of the new book Eyewitness to the Past, 
says that when students imagine events through different 
"eyewitness perspectives" of ordinary people using primary 
sources, it brings suspense, debate, and excitement to history 
learning that doesn't happen with textbooks alone. Listen to Joan 
in the latest installment of our Author Conversations series:

http://www.stenhouse.com/schur.asp?r=n113

Joan is the Social Studies Coordinator at the Village Community 
School in New York City where she has taught American history and 
English for over twenty-five years. You can browse the entire text 
of her new book online:

http://www.stenhouse.com/0497.asp?r=n113

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3) PD Corner: Questioning
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"The power to question is the basis of all human progress." 
--Indira Gandhi

How can you make your classroom more "question-friendly"? The new 
flipchart Out of the Question provides many starting points for 
guiding students to critically evaluate what they read, see, hear, 
and do. Browse the entire flipchart online:

http://www.stenhouse.com/8214.asp?r=n113

How do rate as a questioner? Assess your own questioning style and 
ability using tools from the Center for Teaching Excellence:

http://www.cte.uiuc.edu/Did/docs/QUESTION/quest4.htm

Jamie McKenzie explores links between questioning, thinking, and 
creativity in Chapter 7 of his book Learning to Question to Wonder 
to Learn. Imaginative and insightful, McKenzie draws examples from 
education, business, the arts, and more:

http://questioning.org/may06/learn2q.html

Can we teach students to be better thinkers? The new edition of 
the classic book Asking Better Questions deals with just this 
issue in Chapter 2, "A Question of Thinking," where the authors 
forge rich connections between the types of questions we ask and 
the student thinking that results:

http://www.stenhouse.com/8209.asp?r=n113
(Scroll down to the Chapter 2 link in the Table of Contents.)

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4) Making authentic connections with science
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How can teachers meet the challenge of raising test scores while 
engaging students with inquiry-based learning? Mary Cowhey, author 
of Black Ants and Buddhists, offers examples of authentic 
activities that draw on community members through classroom visits 
and field trips in this article from the January-February issue of 
Connect magazine:

http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/CowheyPages.pdf

Connect is published five times per year by Synergy Learning:

http://www.synergylearning.org/connect/

And the book Black Ants and Buddhists just received an Honor Award 
from Skipping Stones magazine. Find details about the award and 
the book here:

http://www.stenhouse.com/cowheyaward.asp?r=n113


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