 | ||
As an NCTE member, you’re receiving INBOX each week as part of your membership! |
||
| August 31, 2010 | ||
 | ||
| News links are provided for informational purposes, do not imply endorsement by the National Council of Teachers of English, and were live when this issue was published; free registration or a paid subscription may be required for some news articles. | ||
|
NCTE: 100 Years of Literacy Teaching and Student Learning Picturing Education: A Family
Photo Links Past, Present, Future
Award-Winning Teachers Dole
Out Advice on Fixing Public Schools
. . . NCTE Member and National
Teacher of the Year Gives More Advice Study Blasts Popular Teacher
Evaluation Method . . . More on Teacher
Evaluation Fewer Americans Back Obama’s
Education Programs Education Secretary Arne
Duncan: Headmaster of US School Reform . . . More on School Reform Censorship Debate Kills Humble
Teen Lit Fest Students Eat Up Hunger Games Our Storied Lives: The Quest
for "Something More"
The ABCs of E-Reading Should Late-Birthday Kids Sit
Out a Year? Class Sizes Are Getting
Bigger, but Does It Really Matter? Read More Than a Number: Why Class Size Matters, NCTE's guidelines on class size. Online, Bigger Classes May Be
Better Classes The Humanities for Love, Not
Money What Your PhD Didn't Cover What's the Big Idea? . . . News Shorts | ||
 |
||
| Professional
Development Is "The Stuff" of NCTE NCTE members Zanetta Robinson (2008 Early Career Teacher of Color Award of Distinction from NCTE) and Sarah Wessling (2010 National Teacher of the Year) recommend “more investment in good teachers” and state that “workshops and online training programs that allow teachers to collaborate can be useful for sharing effective teaching methods and not-so-successful classroom experiences” ("Award-Winning Teachers Dole Out Advice on Fixing Public Schools Are Featured," CNN, August 30, 2010). Like these members, NCTE’s legislative platforms have recommended ongoing support for teachers through professional development. NCTEs “Principles for Professional Development” notes how important teacher professional development is to student success. Since its inception in 1911, NCTE
has provided numerous professional development opportunities and
resources. |
||
 | ||
| Free access to journal articles mentioned in this INBOX is provided for 21 days. After this free access period expires, articles are available to journal subscribers only. Articles are intended for personal use only and may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from NCTE. Initials in annotations indicate academic level of the resource (E=Elementary, M=Middle, S=Secondary, C=College, TE=Teacher Education, G=General). | ||
|
Making Literacy Connections
in and out of School We know that students are writing in school -- essays, narratives, letters, and journals related to assignments, for example. But, as stated in the NCTE report Writing between the Lines -- and Everywhere Else (G), students are also writing a great deal outside of school -- IM, texting, email, and good old-fashioned notes. While students don’t always see a connection between that out-of-school writing and in-school writing, educators know that a sure recipe for student success is connecting classroom work to real-world situations that students will encounter across a lifetime.
The Voices from the Middle article "Out of the Narrow Tunnel and into the Universe of Discourse" (M) describes a classroom in which students find writing more meaningful as they consider audience as a motivating factor. By doing so, "school stops being an academic exercise and transforms into a place where we practice real world writing . . . and real world thinking." "Adolescents Reading: A Field of Dreams?" (M-S), from Classroom Notes Plus, discusses how teachers can use author blogs, audio books, book talks, and podcasts to share books with students and motivate them to read. The article concludes with strategies for monitoring students' reading progress. In the English Leadership Quarterly article “Fostering Literacy: Connecting Families with Schools” (TE), the author states, “literacy is not the responsibility solely of the school; it is a responsibility shared by the school, the community, and the family.” The article shares ways to form a collaborative effort to foster family literacy.
In his College English article "Alinsky's Reveille: A Community-Organizing Model for Neighborhood-Based Literacy Projects" (C), Eli Goldblatt suggests that Saul Alinsky's concept of community organization, a theory of action devised for neighborhoods rather than for higher education, might offer a new model of service learning. This involves students devising projects based on research into local citizens' needs or approaching recreation centers and libraries to house tutoring projects or screening programs.
| ||
 | ||
|
Read
the September 2010 Council Chronicle Professional
Development at Your Fingertips . . . Ideal for teams of teachers or professional learning communities, the 60-minute interactive presentations can be viewed again and again. CEU credit is available for participation in the live events. View the schedule and buy your virtual seats today! ReadWriteThink
Resources for National Library Card Sign-Up Month
Make plans now to join us in Orlando, November 18-21, 2010. Book your room online, and register by printing and mailing the registration form (pdf) or completing the online registration form. NCTE Centennial: A Blast from
the Past | ||
|
It is the policy of NCTE in its journals and other publications to provide a forum for the open discussion of ideas concerning the content and teaching of English and language arts. Publicity accorded to any particular point of view does not imply endorsement by the Executive Committee, the Board of Directors, or the membership at large, except in announcements of policy, where such endorsement is clearly specified. Paid advertising has been identified as such. Advertise in an issue of INBOX. Copyright 2010 National Council of Teachers of English Subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) the INBOX |
||
 |
NCTE’s
Visit
ReadWriteThink.org’s 
