Stenhouse Newslinks July 18, 2006 C O N T E N T S 1) Author Conversations: Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis 2) PD Corner: Engaging students through technology 3) Preparing new teachers: what do master teachers think? 4) Not your typical elementary teacher 5) Helping struggling students Note: If you'd rather not receive Newslinks in the future, just forward this message to unsubscribe@stenhouse.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Author Conversations: Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Teachers say to me when they see this video, 'Wow, I've never had my kids turn and talk to each other that much!'" In our latest Author Conversations podcast, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis discuss their recent video Read, Write, and Talk, emphasizing how important it is for students to talk to each other about their reading, and relating how some teachers show parts of the video to their students to help model the process: http://www.stenhouse.com/harvey_goudvis.asp?r=n93 For details about Read, Write, and Talk, including a sample video clip and the downloadable Viewing Guide, follow this link: http://www.stenhouse.com/0460.asp?r=n93 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2) PD Corner: Engaging students through technology ---------------------------------------------------------------- *July Quote of the Month* "Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected." --William Plomer Visual media and technology offer many innovative ways to motivate and engage your students. "Visual Learning: Using Digital Images to Enhance Instruction" from eSchool News explores the integration of visual technology into the classroom and provides an extensive list of resources and links: http://www.stenhouse.com/rdvislearn.htm In "Inquiring Minds Use Technology!" Jeff Wilhelm, author of the Stenhouse book Hyperlearning, promotes combining technology with inquiry-based instruction to motivate and engage adolescent students: http://www.stenhouse.com/rdinqminds.htm (130KB PDF file; from NCTE Voices from the Middle, March 2004) Sara Kajder's new book, Bringing the Outside In: Visual Ways to Engage Reluctant Readers, keys in on the visual aspects of literacy while bringing in students' outside talents and connecting them to the classroom. Sara shares how she integrates technology into the English classroom using strategies such as digital storytelling, visual think-alouds, and visual literature circles--engaging even the most reluctant students. Chapter 2, "Personal Narrative and Digital Storytelling," shares the nuts and bolts of getting started with digital storytelling: http://www.stenhouse.com/0401.asp?r=n93 (Scroll down to the link to Chapter 2 in the Table of Contents.) Sara has just launched a website to accompany the book that offers readers the chance to continue the discussion and share strategies, research, and ideas: http://www.bringingtheoutsidein.com Digital storytelling combines the elements of traditional storytelling and the use of multimedia tools. A great starting place to learn more is The Center for Digital Storytelling: http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html Looking for strategies on evaluating and navigating Internet resources, or ideas for how to publish texts online? Visit this collection of resources from NCTE: http://www.ncte.org/collections/weblit ---------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Preparing new teachers: what do master teachers think? ---------------------------------------------------------------- "In the absence of well-considered, adequately funded programs, new teachers are thrust into a classroom, assigned a nominal teacher 'mentor' who has a full teaching load of his or her own, and perhaps invited to attend a support group for novice teachers, where participants meet at the end of a school day and often sit in a circle and wonder why they don't get the professional support they need." In the current issue of Edutopia, Barnett Berry and John Norton explore teaching apprenticeships as an answer to how the U.S. can develop teachers who are knowledgeable in both content and teaching skills, sampling a group of master teachers for ideas and advice. UCLA's Center X and Chicago's Academy for Urban School Leadership are cited as two exemplary programs: http://www.stenhouse.com/rdlearnmast.htm Many schools and districts are struggling just to start or bolster a traditional teacher mentoring program. For guidance on best practices and support for mentors, check out the books Mentoring Beginning Teachers and Mentoring Across Boundaries, and their companion video series Mentoring. You can also download a free Read, Share, Teach workshop guide with nine monthly inservice training sessions for mentors: Mentoring Beginning Teachers: Guiding, Reflecting, Coaching http://www.stenhouse.com/0309.asp?r=n93 Mentoring Across Boundaries: Helping Beginning Teachers Succeed in Challenging Situations http://www.stenhouse.com/0377.asp?r=n93 Mentoring: Guiding, Coaching, and Sustaining Beginning Teachers (2-part video series) http://www.stenhouse.com/0365.asp?r=n93 Read, Share, Teach workshop guide for Mentoring (253KB PDF file) http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/rst_0309.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Not your typical elementary teacher ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mary Cowhey, author of the new book Black Ants and Buddhists, was recently featured on the NPR affiliate WFCR (Amherst, MA). In this five-minute audio profile, she talks about her emphasis on teaching critical thinking skills and the impact of testing pressures on this approach: http://www.stenhouse.com/rdcowheynpr.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------- 5) Helping struggling students ---------------------------------------------------------------- Two Stenhouse authors contributed to a recent issue of ASCD's Educational Leadership, and you can access the full text of their articles using the special links below. In "Engaging African American Males in Reading," Alfred Tatum discusses "the missing piece"--texts that matter--and offers some suggestions for introducing texts that speak to black adolescent males: http://www.stenhouse.com/rdtatumengaging.htm "Getting struggling students to write is all about truly valuing what they say." In "Helping Writers Find Power," Jeff Anderson describes three practices that will help you get students writing with exuberance: http://www.stenhouse.com/rdandersonwrit.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please send comments and questions to Chuck Lerch, Newslinks Editor, ator call (800) 988-9812. View archives of past issues here: http://www.stenhouse.com/nlindex.asp To subscribe to Stenhouse Newslinks, please send an e-mail with your request to
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