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Author(s): Arthu Costigan
ISBN(s): 9780415955775, 0415955777
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.58 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10:1135914702

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Author: Arthur Costigan

Most pre-service education students are enthusiastic about the progressive, constructivist, and student-centered theory and practice advocated in many teacher education programs and by the National Council of Teachers of English. Yet in actual day-to-day practice, teachers often have trouble thinking of ways in which such student-centered and constructivist practices in literacy instruction can be implemented in classrooms which are increasingly driven by high stakes tests, increased accountability, and mandated and even ‘teacher proof’ scripted curricula. Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era provides a powerful and much-needed counterargument to the assumption that test-driven curricula preclude meaningful instruction and authentic student engagement within a Language Arts curriculum. Providing teachers with the theoretical stances and pedagogicals tools to develop a Language Arts practice which can be personally rewarding as well as beneficial to students,Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era empowers teachers to be effective even within the confines of a testing- and accountability-driven curriculum.

Table of Contents:

  • 1 Surviving and Thriving in a Test- and Accountability-Driven Culture
  • Listening to New Teachers
  • The Jury is Out
  • About this Book
  • Thinking Things Through
  • two Constructivist Controversies
  • Overview
  • 2 Lesson Plans—Two Curricula
  • The Developmental Lesson Plan
  • Lesson Plan on “Richard Cory”
  • Student-Centered Approaches, Creating “Texts out of Texts”
  • Content and Students
  • A Personal Account of Learning Authentic Reading
  • Thinking Things Through
  • 3 Writing Theory and Practice
  • Overview
  • Two Writing Teachers
  • Responding to Literature in Writing and Conversation
  • The Block Essay and the Chain Essay
  • The Human Curriculum
  • A Human Issues Reading and Writing Unit
  • Investigating the Complexities of the Adult World through Literature Circles
  • Variations on the Literature Essay
  • Grammar on Tests in Editing Sections
  • What Test-Based Essays Tell us about Writing
  • The Value-Rich Curriculum and Authentic Writing
  • Writing Poetry “on” Poetry: a Look at Intertextuality and Aesthetics
  • Thinking Things Through: a Recipe Unit
  • 4 Reading Theory and Practice
  • Overview
  • A Look at the Reading Curriculum and Reading Tests: Poetry and Prose
  • The Other Type of Reading Question: Prose
  • Acts of Reading and Literature
  • Plot and Theme
  • Building Block, Organic, and Balanced Literacy
  • Reading and Essay Questions
  • Thinking Things Through
  • Excerpts from Early Spring
  • Answers to CST test questions
  • 5 Symbolic Assessment and Authentic Assessment
  • Overview
  • Authentic and Symbolic Assessment
  • A Very Brief History of Assessment
  • Formal Assessment and Student Learning
  • Literature Essay Assessment Sheet
  • Responding to Student Writing Authentically
  • Students Assess Themselves: Portfolios and Self-Assessments
  • Self-Assessment and Rubrics
  • Rubrics, Standards, Objectives, and Testing
  • Thinking Things Through
  • 6 Aesthetic Education
  • Overview
  • Aesthetic Knowledge
  • A Word About (Pre)Adolescent Thinking and Schooling
  • Relating Different Theories and Practices
  • A Word About Intertextuality and Aesthetic Education
  • Presentations, Kinesthetic Movement, and Drama
  • Exploratory Talk
  • Thinking Things Through
  • 7 Teaching Social Justice in a Test-Driven Era
  • Overview
  • Inequities and Social Justice
  • Reality and Research
  • Roberta’s Two-Week Research Unit
  • Authentic Research and Test Objectives
  • Thinking Things Through
  • 8 Teaching Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era
  • A Curriculum of Relationships
  • Maria’s Tin Can Lesson
  • The Text of Teachers
  • Two Teachers, Two Classrooms
  • What We Can Do
  • An Every(wo)man Drama Unit: A “Pilgrim’s Progress” for Modern Times
  • Some Final Thoughts
  • Thinking Things Through

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