Fox, M. (1993). Notes from the battlefield: toward a theory of why people write. In Radical Reflections (pp 1-22). New York, NY: Harcourt Publishing.
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A great essay on the change in her students when the author moved to more “meaningful” assignments—particularly related to writing. The big hurdle for many writing teachers is moving students from [...]
Goldberg, G., Roswell, B. (2002). Reading, writing and gender: Instructional strategies and classroom activities that work for boys and girls. Larchmont, NY: Eye On Education.
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Recommended for grades 3-8, this book is loaded with specific lessons, tools, and activities designed to teach Language Arts skills (such as reading and writing) with gender in mind. The [...]
New research is proving that gender differences are real. Boys and girls are different. From the way their brains are organized to the types of cells in their eyes, groundbreaking studies are showing us just how different the genders really are. In this article, Chris Wondra explains how boys and girls hear differently, and what this means for the way our children and students learn to speak and read.
The problem with blind spots is that you don’t know you’ve got them. I mean, it’s obvious to us today that students weren’t going to need a slate or homemade ink in order to be successful. But imagine living in that time. There was no way those people could have foreseen the changes that make us snicker at those statements today.
Might we also be clinging to faulty beliefs about what will make our students successful? But how do we identify them? What beliefs do we throw out? Which ones do we keep? What skills and content are we teaching that will be irrelevant in five years? What tools are we still using that are already outdated?
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