Thanks a lot for the references you provided and please, provide more
Gordon wrote,
>Eugene,
>
>You might like to check out Networks, a new online journal for teacher
>research (URL below). In the sample issue there's an article by Zoe
>Donoahue that your students might find interesting at
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~ctd/networks/journal/current/article1.html
>
>Gordon Wells, gwells who-is-at oise.utoronto.ca
>OISE/University of Toronto
>
I like Zoe Donoahue's article a lot. I'll probably include it in the
assigned readings but I'm not sure if it should go under the theme of class
management because many of my students do not understand that class
management is about community building. My perception of their
understanding of class management is about disciplining of non-cooperating
kids or how to be in control. I need literature that help my students to
bridge their concerns about non-cooperation and the idea of building a
community.
Joanne wrote,
> I can offer one suggestion for your consideration. I find a book
>called, "Guided Reading: Good first teaching for all children" by Irene
>Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell helpful. There is a chapter about managing the
classroom. The whole book, while
>written for teachers, is based on data from real classrooms.
> Teacher education is difficult and finding quality readings is even
>more so. Let me know if you find any good readings yourself. I'm always
on
>the lookout for readings that reflect what we now know about learning and
>about the social construction of knowledge. It's difficult to find
readings
>that new teachers can relate to. They are always looking for the "how to"
>stuff and not the "why."
Thanks a lot! I found this book in our library and I'm looking forward to
read it. I agree with you that
>It's difficult to find readings
>that new teachers can relate to. They are always looking for the "how to"
>stuff and not the "why."
I think stories about teachers' personal transformation can be helpful. But
I think the most helpful can be students working with children in informal
environment or in innovative schools with informal environment where
students' mistakes are not costly and do not create disciplinary problems
(the kids just move away from the students). What do you think?
Mike wrote,
>Eugene-- The article by Doyle in the prior (1986?) Handbook of Research
>on Teaching is not case based, but very comprehensive, with many
>interesting studies cited in it.
This was my first choice for my current class. I have tried it and my
students found the paper boring and incomprehensible. Sometimes we
(researchers who are instructors) forget that academic papers are embedded
in academic discourse and without that discourse what we think great papers
are just boring stuff.
I checked cited studies but so far I couldn't find something that transcends
research and focus on transformative experiences of future teachers. Thanks
for the reference, anyway!
Francoise wrote,
>L.Delpit "Other people's children: Cultural conflict in the
>classroom". The new york Press, NY 1995. It is a collection of
>papers, but the whole book is really TERRIFIC! especially if your
>students are minority and or black American as these are the
>voices that she brings into the discussion of major educational
>issues such as the whole language vs skills debate, standard and
>heritage languages and liberal vs conservative approaches. It is
>terrific as she resolves the conflicts and one walks free of
>"vs"s. She speaks as teacher with much experience and an amazing
>way of listening while connecting to her own experience as a black
>American in a white world, as a mother, a teacher (elementary
>school) and professor. I am loving every page on too many counts to say.
Thanks, I'll look for this book.
Again, thanks a lot,
Eugene
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