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Making Conversation : Collaborating with Colleagues for Change by Mark Larson (1997, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHeinemann
ISBN-100867094249
ISBN-139780867094244
eBay Product ID (ePID)966997
Product Key Features
Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School
Number of Pages126 Pages
Publication NameMaking Conversation : Collaborating with Colleagues for Change
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
SubjectCommunication Studies, General, Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
TypeStudy Guide
AuthorMark Larson
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Education
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight6.6 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceElementary/High School
LCCN97-3498
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Larson is every bit a realist in the sense that he works with flesh-and-blood kids in a commonplace classroom doing the heavy lifting and ordinary work. He writes, as it were, with one foot in a world that could be but is not yet, and the other in the mud and the muck and the green grass of this earth."- William Ayers, from the Foreword, "Larson is every bit a realist in the sense that he works with flesh-and-blood kids in a commonplace classroom doing the heavy lifting and ordinary work. He writes, as it were, with one foot in a world that could be but is not yet, and the other in the mud and the muck and the green grass of this earth."-William Ayers, from the Foreword
Grade FromNinth Grade
Grade ToTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal428/.0071/2
Table Of ContentContents: Introduction: The Continuing Conversation I. Private Conversations 1. The Beginning of the Beginning 2. Discoveries: Deciding to Change 3. Transition: Making a Change II. Conversations with Colleagues 4. Writing 5. Reading 6. Assessment III. Conversations with Students Introduction : An Evolving Challenge 7. Put It in Writing 8. First and Last Day Letters Afterword: As the Best We Know How to Be
SynopsisIn Making Conversation , Mark Larson reinvents his own teaching by raising difficult questions at the heart of the English classroom., In Making Conversation , Mark Larson reinvents his own teaching by raising difficult questions at the heart of the English classroom: Should we have a canon? If we do, who will decide what will be in it and how will they make that decision? How do we balance student choice with our responsibility to lead students to higher ground? How do we assess student progress in ways that both yield useful, reliable information and are fair to all students? How do we engage disengaged students without compromising standards? What are our standards? And most important: What is English class? Larson revisits these and many other questions in full view of his colleagues, administrators, and students. He uses open letters to faculty and students, in which he explores doubts about his own work as a teacher, his successes and failures in the classroom, his questions about the educational system, and his ideas on how to handle some of the more perplexing dilemmas today's teachers face. A dialogue ensues in which colleagues and students reply with ideas of their own. This book will lead preservice and inservice teachers, administrators, and education professors to reflect on their own systems, their own teaching methods, the ways they assess student work, and their hopes and expectations for their students. Making Conversation , Larson writes in the introduction, is "propelled by the belief that by unearthing . . . the questions that keep us perennially perplexed, we are making our way toward viable, grounded solutions."
LC Classification NumberLB1631.L26 1997
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