Going Public with Our Teaching : An Anthology of Practice

by Hatch, Thomas; Ahmed, Dilruba; Lieberman, Ann; Faigenbaum, Deborah; White, Melissa Eiler

• ISBN13: 9780807745892
• ISBN10: 0807745898
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-15
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

This seminal collection brings together rich examples of classroom inquiry to address key problems of practice. Responding to the growing importance of displaying the powerful work of teachers who study their practice, this unique ensemble combines a variety of classic and new pieces. The teacher reflections are organized according to the following sections: The Culture of Schools and Classrooms; The Content of the Curriculum; Issues of Equity, Race, and Culture; Negotiating the Dilemmas of Teaching. Features: ?Classroom teachers thinking about and addressing some of the most important and compelling issues of the day. ?Selections that include journal articles, book chapters, opinion pieces, narratives, excerpts from multimedia works, and links to websites?providing a sense of the ever-expanding ways teachers are making their work public and accessible to others. ?Insights from teachers who come from a variety of reform communities, such as the National Writing Project (NWP) and The Carnegie Academy for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
Thomas Hatch
PART I: THE CULTURE OF SCHOOLS AND CLASSROOMS
The First Day of School: A Reflective Narrative Analysis	17	(17)
Timothy Boerst
What Is a Culture of Quality?	34	(23)
Ron Berger
Are Pullout Programs Sabotaging Classroom Community in Our Elementary Schools?	57	(10)
Lois Brandts
A Narrative in Three Voices	67	(3)
Rebecca Akin
The Mission Hill School	70	(7)
Heidi Lyne
Circles of Influence: My Research Journey Into Culturally Engaged Instruction	77	(18)
Renee Moore
PART II: THE CONTENT OF THE CURRICULUM: EXPANDING CLASSROOM UNDERSTANDING
With an Eye on the Mathematical Horizon: Dilemmas of Teaching Elementary School Mathematics	95	(38)
Deborah Loewenberg Ball
Messy Monk Mathematics: An NCTM-Standards--Inspired Class	133	(14)
Larry Copes
Learning from Laramie: Urban High School Students Read, Research, and Reenact The Laramie Project	147	(19)
Marsha R. Pincus
Pio Pico Student Researchers Participatory Action Research: From Classroom to Community, Transforming Teaching and Learning	166	(5)
Emily Wolk
Was the American Revolution Completed Before the War Began?	171	(10)
Steven Levy
A Friend of Their Minds: Capitalizing on the Oral Tradition of My African American Students	181	(8)
Yvonne Divans Hutchinson
PART III: ISSUES OF EQUITY, RACE, AND CULTURE
Helping African American Males Reach Their Academic Potential	189	(21)
Marlene Carter
The Gap Is in Our Expectations	210	(4)
Joan Kernan Cone
``And Justice for All'': Using Writing and Literature to Confront Racism	214	(23)
Griselle M. Diaz-Gemmati
Ma-Lee's Story	237	(6)
Gerald Campano
Because You Like Us: The Language of Control	243	(14)
Cynthia Ballenger
PART IV: NEGOTIATING THE DILEMMAS OF TEACHING
Human Agency, Social Action, and Classroom Practices	257	(10)
Vanessa Brown
Proposition 227, Stanford 9, and Open Court: Three Strikes Against English Language Learners	267	(3)
Ramon Martinez
Principled Practice: New Science for the Classroom	270	(11)
Jeffrey Maas
How Do Teachers Manage to Teach?: Perspectives on Problems in Practice	281	(24)
Magdalene Lampert
About the Authors	305	(4)
Index	309