Oh, my gosh! Choice Literacy strikes again! Just opened my new mailing, and here's part: "If schools are to be places that encourage new teachers, causing them to see teaching as an interesting and unique career, there have to be intellectually and socially challenging environments in which teachers read together, reflect on practice, develop curriculum with a local situated quality, and become conscious about the development of a learning community."
Vito Perrone And, to make it all the more frustrating, sad-to-the-bone to me is that our professional newbies are seeing education as it is today and extrapolating that that's all it can (or should) be. Dry, "efficient," droning. ************************************************************************ For years I have used big words when reading aloud and helped kids get the meaning by explaining them right along with what's in the actual text. Other times, I've just kept reading in anticipation of the story doing its work. Make sense?Elisa Enjoy 5 GB of free, password-protected online storage. Get Windows Live SkyDrive. _________________________________________________________________ It’s easy to add contacts from Facebook and other social sites through Windows Live™ Messenger. Learn how. https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_LearnHow _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
