I agree! And, interestingly enough, my new position will involve me coaching the content area teachers to use literacy startegies in their teaching! I am very excited!
On 11/14/06, Bill IVEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I got my "Council Chronicle" from NCTE today, and there's an article on > middle level literacy which says in part: > > >The effort to increase students' competencies with complex texts must > >involve not only English language arts teachers, but also those who teach > >in the content areas. The NCTE Principles of Adolescent Literacy Reform > >stresses the importance of professional development that provides > >content-area experts with additional training in literacy instruction. > > > >When schools create professional communities in which English, math, > >science, and social studies teachers collaborate with and support each > >other in delivering the most effective interdisciplinary instruction > >possible, students thrive. > > What do you think of these opinions - do you agree, partially agree, > disagree? What is your school doing along these lines that has been > successful? If your school isn't doing much but you wish it were, what are > the impediments to this kind of progress that you are experiencing? > > So many questions - almost as many as my students ;-) > > Take care, > Bill Ivey > Stoneleigh-Burnham School > > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > -- - Heather "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." --Clarence Day "While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little good evidence exists that there's any educational substance behind the accountability and testing movement." —Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase funding. " —Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Presidential Candidate _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
