Language and Literacy
2 total works
This book proposes a pedagogical model called "Pose, Wobble, Flow" to encapsulate the challenge of teaching and the process of growing as an educator who questions existing inequities in schooling and society and frames teaching around a commitment to changing them. The authors provide six different culturally proactive teaching stances or "poses" that secondary ELA teachers can use to meet the needs of all students, whether they are historically marginalized or privileged. They describe how teachers can expect to "wobble" as they adapt instruction to the needs of their students, while also incorporating new insights about their own cultural positionality and preconceptions about teaching. Teachers are encouraged to recognize this flexibility as a positive process or "flow" that can be used to address challenges and adopt ambitious teaching strategies like those depicted in this book. Each chapter highlights a particular pose, describes how to work through common wobbles, incorporates teacher voices, and provides questions for further discussion. Pose, Wobble, Flow presents a promising framework for disrupting the pervasive myth that there is one set of surefire, culturally neutral "best" practices.
Compose Our World
by Alison G Boardman, Antero Garcia, Bridget Dalton, and Joseph L Polman
Published 30 January 2021
Learn how to develop and sustain multimodal, project-based learning (PBL) instruction in secondary English Language Arts classrooms. National standards encourage authentic forms of reading, writing, and communication that can support college and career readiness, and this book highlights PBL as a powerful way to harness students' interests and engage them in academically rigorous learning. The authors provide specific, research-informed curricular approaches and instructional guidance for classroom teachers, as well as an overview of the dimensions of PBL that are often overlooked in the broad expectations of inquiry-based teaching. Instead of "quick fix" lessons, Compose Our World explores how core dimensions of equitable teaching-such as social and emotional support, universal design for learning, and cultivating classroom community-function as the bedrock for student success in PBL contexts and beyond.
Book Features:
- Based on the authors' extensive experience developing and studying a PBL curriculum.
- Brings PBL to life through classroom vignettes and teacher and student voices.
- Provides classroom resources that facilitate customization to unique contexts.
- Shares ideas for developing teacher communities around PBL practices.
- Offers additional curriculum materials online.
- Appropriate for ELA teachers new to PBL, as well as veterans.