On the Case in the English Language Arts Classroom
eBook - ePub

On the Case in the English Language Arts Classroom

Situations for the Teaching of English

  1. 150 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

On the Case in the English Language Arts Classroom

Situations for the Teaching of English

About this book

An insightful and informative guide for many of the situations and issues high school English Language Arts teachers face every day.

From four veteran teacher educators, On the Case in the English Language Arts Classroom offers twenty case narratives as well as a format for discussion, professional resources that can inform decisions, and a guide to constructing new case narratives that can expand the possibilities for developing powerful problem-solving strategies.

Being a high school English teacher is both rewarding and difficult. Although teacher education programs try to be thorough, they can’t prepare preservice teachers for every situation that might arise. For instance:

  • How can an ELA teacher work with learners who have suffered significant trauma?
  • How can a well-prepared literature instructor teach high school students the basics of reading?
  • Should a teacher shy away from classroom conversations because they can become “too political”?
  • How does a teacher contend with a crushing workload?

On the Case in the English Language Arts Classroom provides teachers at any point in their career the opportunity to analyze potential situations and problems that commonly confront teachers through case studies that prompt extensive, stimulating discussion and invite written responses.

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Table of contents

  1. FOREWORD
  2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  3. I Looking Forward
  4. II Cases
  5. CASE 1 Surprise! We've Come to Complain
  6. CASE 2 Pressure Cooker: Where Should We Devote Our Energies?
  7. CASE 3 Killing the Invaders: Respect, Confidentiality, and Security
  8. CASE 4 The Accu-Grade System: What Is a Fair Grade?
  9. CASE 5 Teaching to the Test
  10. CASE 6 It Can't Be This Difficult: Meaningful Peer Revision Activities
  11. CASE 7 Out of Control: Delinquent or Disabled?
  12. CASE 8 It's Just a Soccer Game: How Will These Students View Me?
  13. CASE 9 First Observation
  14. CASE 10 Doing the Right Thing
  15. CASE 11 Copycat
  16. CASE 12 To Think or Not to Think, That Is the Question
  17. CASE 13 Call Me Irreplaceable
  18. CASE 14 Evening Reveries
  19. CASE 15 When Do They Do Grammar?
  20. CASE 16 Teaching English among Many Languages
  21. CASE 17 Teaching in the Aftermath of Trauma
  22. CASE 18 Can't They Already Read?
  23. CASE 19 Teacher or Technician? Confronting Standardized Instruction
  24. CASE 20 Isn't This Getting "Too Political"?
  25. Reflecting on Practice
  26. REFERENCES
  27. RELATED RESOURCES FROM NCTE
  28. INDEX
  29. AUTHORS