February 2003
Volume 28, Number 2
SLATE Newsletter
Support for the Learning and Teaching of English
National Council of Teachers of English
Welcome to the second e-mail version of SLATE Newsletter! You will receive this online newsletter three times a year, at the e-mail address NCTE has on file for you. We are excited to be able to use this new format to send you terrific articles and important details about issues that affect the teaching of the English language arts. You may access this issue, as well as an archive of past Newsletters, SLATE Starter Sheets, and other SLATE-related material at http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/sheets/108544.htm.
Thanks for taking a moment to read this issue. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact Millie Davis, NCTE Staff Liaison, at NCTE Headquarters (mail to: ; 800-369-6283, ext. 3634). If you would like for us to use a different e-mail address for you, please fill out the online form at the NCTE Web site’s homepage--click on “update my e-mail address.”
Share These Materials SLATE Newsletters are offered as resources for dealing with current issues affecting the teaching of English language arts. Reproduce these materials and use them to help promote better understanding of the goals of English teaching.
IN THIS ISSUE:
The Stature of Teachers
What it Takes to Be a "Good Teacher"
New SLATE Committee and Regional Map
Meet New Committee Members:
Pat Cordeiro - Region 1 Representative
Fred Barton - Region 4 Representative
Nominees for SLATE Elections
NCTE Goes to Capitol Hill
Intellectual Freedom Award Application
Post Convention Report including SLATE’s sessionsReport on New NCTE Resolution
Take a Stand or Share Your Views with Policymakers
Call for Personal Opinion Papers: SLATE Newsletter
Call for Manuscripts: SLATE Starter Sheets
Call for Manuscripts: SLATE Newsletter
The Stature of Teachers
by Michelle Tremmel, SLATE Newsletter Editor
Reflective teachers are constantly evaluating their teaching, trying to assess how their practices may be helping or hindering students’ learning and modifying these as a result of that reflection. http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116511.htm
What it Takes to Be a "Good Teacher": Expectations and Constraints
by Don Mayfield, SLATE Steering Committee Chair and Region 8 Representative
http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116512.htm
New SLATE Committee and Regional Map
2003 SLATE Steering Committee Members listed by Region with contact information. http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116513.htm
Meet New Committee Members
Pat Cordeiro - Region 1 Representative http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116514.htm
Fred Barton - Region 4 Representative
http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116514.htm
Nominees for SLATE Elections
The 2002-2003 SLATE Nominating Committee puts forth the following nominees for SLATE offices. http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116516.htm
NCTE Goes to Capitol Hill
by Leila Christenbury, NCTE Past President
Advocacy is an essential part of NCTE’s ongoing work, and while yearly visits to Capitol Hill are important, individual members’ ongoing contact with their senators and representatives cannot be replaced. http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116517.htm
Intellectual Freedom Award Guidelines and Application
SLATE National Intellectual Freedom Award - deadline May 1
http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116518.htm
Minutes from November 2002 Meeting http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116519.htm
Take a stand or share your views with policymakers.
Check out these resources:
NCTE Education Advocacy Network.
NCTE Action page at http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116552.htm
NCTE issues /Positions at http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116552.htm
Opinions/Editorials at http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116552.htm
Report on New NCTE Resolution
On the Reading First Initiative of the No Child Left Behind Act During NCTE's Annual Convention held this past November in Atlanta, members approved a resolution that urges Congress to review the Reading First Initiative of the No Child Left Behind Act and to carefully consider the evaluation plan for the legislation. http://www.ncte.org/about/issues/slate/116521.htm
Call for Personal Opinion Papers: SLATE Newsletter
You are invited to submit a Personal Opinion Paper (POP) for publication in the SLATE Newsletter. POPs can be on any sociopolitical issue that affects the teaching and learning of English language arts. Recent topics have included student testing and grading. Send a POP of no more than 500 words in length to Michelle Tremmel, Editor, SLATE Newsletter, 526 NE 5th St., Ankeny, IA 50021-1913; phone: 515-965-1376; fax at Iowa State University: 515-294-6814; .
Call for Manuscripts: SLATE Newsletter
SLATE Newsletter is looking for short articles of 250-500 words on issues related to the teaching of the English language arts. Send your contribution to Michelle Tremmel, Editor, SLATE Newsletter, 526 NE 5th St., Ankeny, IA 50021-1913; phone: 515-965-1376; fax at Iowa State University: 515-294-6814; .
Call for Manuscripts: SLATE Starter Sheets
SLATE—Support for the Learning and Teaching of English—began 25 years ago in an effort to promote NCTE positions on issues to English language arts teachers. It is ironic, then, that the topics of major concern at that time, are the topics that are still being debated today. Some of these issues include: the “back-to-basics” movement, censorship, standardized testing, ESL, phonics, class size, and of course, accountability. Since many of the Starter Sheets have information that was gathered from sources that are more than 10 years old, much of the statistical information is outdated. The SLATE Steering Committee is attempting to update these Starter Sheets. For this reason, your help will be greatly appreciated. If you have written an article or are interested in a specific topic, please contact Maryann Manning, 4344 Clairmont Avenue S, Birmingham, AL 35222; office phone: 205/934-8359; , about the possibility of updating or writing a SLATE Starter Sheet.
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