English Education, Vol. 38, No. 3, April 2006

Table of Contents

• The Editorial We: Discussing Teaching Concepts

  Michael T. Moore and Tara Star Johnson

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  Abstract: The editor and this issue’s coeditor preview the articles in the April issue.

  Keywords: Secondary, College

• Teacher Quality: The Perspectives of NCTE Members

  Curt Dudley-Marling, Dawn Abt-Perkins, Kyoko Sato, and Richard (Dickie) Selfe

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  Abstract: In the often contentious debate over the state of American education, there is considerable agreement, supported by research, that teacher quality is a critical factor in student learning.

  Keywords: Secondary, College

• What Kind of Teacher Will I Be? Creating Spaces for Beginning Teachers' Imagined Roles

  Jane Agee

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  Abstract: This qualitative study focuses on ten graduate students in an English education master’s program, who were enrolled in a course that I taught on teaching literature in the secondary school.

  Keywords: Secondary, College

• A High School English Teacher's Developing Multicultural Pedagogy

  Leslie Susan Cook and Kristi Bruce Amatucci

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  Abstract: Literature often has been considered a quick and easy way to bring multicultural perspectives into the ELA classroom. Yet for effectual change, significant shifts in pedagogy prove more powerful than surface additions. In this article we focus on how a college of education’s multicultural mission statement intersects with one teacher’s life story.

  Keywords: Secondary, College

• Book Walk: Works That Move Our Teaching Forward: Exploring Texts That Engage Students and Teachers in Poetry

  Stephanie Webster, Nathaniel Ihde, E. Brianna VanBlargan, Chelsea Crabbe and Jill Froebel

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  Abstract: Five preservice teachers each review a book on teaching poetry, a book they had previously presented to their peers as part of a literature circle.

  Keywords: Secondary, College

• Announcements

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  Keywords: Secondary, College

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