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Tables of Contents for Language and Reflection
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
v
Why Teach English?
1
25
Reasons for Teaching English
1
3
The History of English Instruction
4
14
Reflecting on the History
18
8
Suggested Reading
25
1
Reading Kids and Classrooms
26
32
Reading Individual Kids as Learners
29
17
Reading Individual Kids as Kids
46
5
Reading Classrooms
51
2
Contextual Features of the Classroom
51
1
Group Dynamics in the Classroom
52
1
Teacher Research Based on Kids and Classrooms
53
5
Suggested Reading
55
3
Becoming an English Teacher: Theory into Practice
58
27
Developing a Perspective
59
9
The Teaching of Writing
60
6
Writing as Related to Reading
66
1
The Teaching of Reading
67
1
Perspectives Personified
68
6
Modes of Learning and of Teaching
74
1
Implementing a Perspective: Practical Aspects
75
1
Unit Plans
76
1
Daily Plans
76
5
Metaphors for Teaching
81
1
Looking Ahead
82
3
Suggested Reading
84
1
Language as Artifact
85
28
Analysis of the Approach
87
10
Potentials and Limitations of the Approach
97
16
Implementation: Teaching Shirley Jackson's ``The Lottery'' in Junior High
99
3
Implementation: Teaching Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter in High School
102
9
Suggested Reading
111
2
Language as Development
113
27
Analysis of the Approach
116
10
Potentials and Limitations of the Approach
126
14
Implementation: Teaching Joan Blos's A Gathering of Days in the Seventh Grade
128
5
Implementation: Teaching Satire in High School
133
4
Suggested Reading
137
3
Language as Expression
140
44
Analysis of the Approach
146
12
Potentials and Limitations of the Approach
158
26
Implementation: Teaching a Unit on Myth in the Eighth Grade
162
9
Implementation: Teaching a Unit on War and Peace in Eleventh Grade
171
10
Suggested Reading
181
3
Language as Social Construct
184
30
Analysis of the Approach
187
7
Potentials and Limitations of the Approach
194
20
Implementation: Teaching an Equal Rights Unit
196
5
Implementation: A Cross-Age Teaching Unit in High School
201
10
Suggested Reading
211
3
Exploring and Evaluating the Approaches
214
21
Examining the Differences
217
4
The Difference in Focus
219
1
The Difference in Feel
220
1
The Difference for the Student
220
1
The Difference for the Teacher
221
1
The Approaches in Action
221
6
. . . in Teaching Huck Finn
222
3
. . . in Teaching Blackberry Winter
225
2
Differing Perspectives on Literacy
227
8
Suggested Reading
232
3
Evaluation
235
35
The Purposes of Evaluation
239
3
Assessing Growth in the English Classroom
242
1
Encouraging Self-Evaluation
242
1
Strategies for Evaluation
243
7
Coaching Student Reading
250
1
Coaching Student Writing
250
10
Coaching Student Discussion
260
1
Some Sensible Grading Systems
261
2
Evaluation and Public Relations
263
3
The General Principles of Evaluation
266
4
Suggested Reading
268
2
The Social Dimensions of Schooling
270
25
Conflict over the Curriculum: Censorship
271
4
Conflict over the Environment: Tracking
275
5
Conflict over the Environment: School Choice
280
1
School/Community Interaction
281
3
Professional Development
284
11
Peer Networks
288
1
Professional Organizations
288
1
The National Writing Project
289
1
Writing Across the Curriculum
289
1
Teacher-Researcher Groups
290
2
Suggested Reading
292
3
Index
295