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Michigan Titles in the Book Club
Respite for Teachers: Reflection and Renewal in the Teaching Life
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What is the trick to staying balanced in mind and spirit? Finding time to reflect on our own learning and to engage with the world around us. Respite for Teachers offers comforting words to help teachers find that balance and time for reflection. This book of essays includes topics related to teaching and learning in culturally diverse settings. The authors discuss, literally and metaphorically, phenomena in education such as listening, questioning, conversing, observing, grading, taking risks, and connecting. The book is grounded in the educational philosophy that recognizes how reflection and engagement with students and colleagues lead to a satisfying teaching life and ultimately to connecting with the world around them.
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Vocabulary Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching
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In Vocabulary Myths, Keith S. Folse breaks down the teaching of second language vocabulary into eight commonly held myths. In debunking each myth, he introduces it with a story based on his 25 years of teaching experience, continues with a presentation of what the empirical research has shown, and finishes with a list of what teachers can do in their classrooms to facilitate true vocabulary acquisition. An important theme of this book is that teachers have underestimated how much vocabulary students really understand, and as a result, "comprehensive input" is neither comprehensible nor input.
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Shakespeare Behind Bars: One Teacher's Story of the Power of Drama in a Women's Prison
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Joan Trounstine's Shakespeare Behind Bars: One Teacher's Story of the Power of Drama in a Women's Prison is a deeply stirring account of Trounstine's 10 years of teaching and directing plays at Framingham (MA) Women's Prison. Focusing on six inmates who, each in her own way, discover in the power of Shakespeare a way to transcend the painful constraints of incarceration, the book reveals the redemptive power of art and education and is an inspiration for all teachers who work with students others have deemed unteachable. |
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Lives in Two Languages: An Exploration of Identity and Culture
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Linda Watkins-Goffman's (Hostos Community College) Lives in Two Languages: An Exploration of Identity and Culture was designed very much in the spirit of the Florio-Ruane book. This text offers an exploration of identity and culture through excerpts from: Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory, Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation, Julia Alvarez's Something to Declare, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker, and Zora Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road. |
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Book Club guide
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A Place to Stand: Essays for Educators in Troubled Times
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Mark Clarke's (University of Colorado at Denver) A Place to Stand: Essays for Educators in Troubled Times is a compilation of essays about the difficult times in which teachers teach, about how to deal with all the testing and administrative issues, and about how to regain the desire to inspire learning, to regain that sense of why one was drawn to teaching in the first place. This volume was written for those teachers who want positive change and are willing to consider changing themselves in the process. |
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Book Club guide
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Continuing Cooperative Development: A Discourse Framework for Individuals as Colleagues
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Julian Edge's (Aston University, U.K.) Continuing Cooperative Development is designed for those groups of teachers who want to focus on specific professional development issues and tasks, and who have developed a cadre of trusted colleagues with whom to meet regularly. |
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