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Tamra Stambaugh; Elizabeth Covington; Emily L. Mofield – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2025
The focus of this article is on the development of expertise in interpreting literature within English Language Arts (ELA). Experts and novices differ significantly in how they approach problems and acquire information, with experts demonstrating more sophisticated pattern recognition, nuances, and conceptual understandings and approaches than…
Descriptors: Language Arts, English Curriculum, Expertise, Experienced Teachers
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Shekema S. Dunlop – English Journal, 2021
Teachers sharing music in their classrooms is all about establishing a sense of mutual trust and respect for their students. Shekema S. Dunlap invites her students into the innermost sanctums of her world and humbly ask that they allow her into theirs. The sharing of music becomes an exchange among equals, forcing their learning space. In this…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Teaching Methods, English Curriculum, African American Teachers
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White, John Wesley; Ali-Khan, Carolyne – English Education, 2020
Contemporary research in critical multicultural education and cultural studies has demonstrated how race, class, gender, and sexual orientation affect students' educational experiences, their academic success, and the formation of their identities inside and outside of school. These studies show that youth identity--especially race, class, gender,…
Descriptors: Sex, Sexuality, Language Arts, English Curriculum
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Bartholomae, David – Journal of Basic Writing, 2020
I retired from teaching in August, 2018. In the fall semester of that academic year, I taught a section of Basic Writing (now called "Workshop in Composition"), one of the courses I taught in the fall of 1975, my first year at the University of Pittsburgh. This essay is a documentary account of that course, including writing assignments…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Assignments, College English, English Curriculum
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Joanne O’Mara; Glenn Auld; Yin Paradies; Cassandra Alpium, Contributor; Meaghan Beaucaire, Contributor; Roxene Beech, Contributor; Brittany Bell, Contributor; Rebekkah Cranson, Contributor; Tim Delphine, Contributor; Paul Garner, Contributor; Erin Horton, Contributor; Jennifer Kernahan, Contributor; Catherine Milvain, Contributor; Alicia O’Keefe, Contributor; Martina Polaskova, Contributor; Douglas Rowell, Contributor; Stephanie Savopoulos, Contributor; Benjamin Taylor, Contributor; Kelvin Wong, Contributor; Melanie Whelan, Contributor; Leteasha Yamada, Contributor; Michael Ziemer, Contributor – English in Australia, 2022
The Australian Curriculum provides a warrant for all subject English teachers to enact the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures Cross-curriculum priority (CCP). This priority is 'designed for all students to engage in reconciliation, respect, and recognition of the world's oldest continuous living cultures' (ACARA, n.d.-a).…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
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Shann, Steve – English in Australia, 2019
What role might storytelling play both as a component of the English curriculum and as a way of re-envisioning what we do as English teachers? The following story asks questions about storytelling in the English classroom, its fit with current theory and practice, and its role in a contemporary world. Live Bodies is a fiction. None of the…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Fiction, English Curriculum, English Teachers
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Honeyford, Michelle; Ntelioglou, Burcu Yaman – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2021
Over a three-year collaborative partnership involving university researchers, government curriculum specialists, and school division teams and educators, this post-qualitative study has engaged a diffractive methodology to research pedagogical change in relationship to a renewed provincial curriculum framework in English Language Arts (ELA). In…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, English, Language Arts
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James S. Chisholm; Jeffrey Jamner; Kathryn F. Whitmore – English Journal, 2021
In this article, the authors describe how integrating music with reading and writing practices stimulated transmediation to (1) honor musical students' identities, (2) deepen readers' meaning making with literature, and (3) invite writers' memories to generate emotional grist for composing poetry. The authors share examples to inspire teachers to…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Self Concept, Teaching Methods
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Doecke, Brenton; Mead, Philip – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2018
This essay poses the question of the role that literary knowledge plays in subject English. It thus engages with current debates, largely prompted by Michael Young's call to 'bring knowledge back in', about the need to restore academic knowledge as the basis of the school curriculum. We take issue with Young's understanding of knowledge, arguing…
Descriptors: English, English Curriculum, English Literature, Educational History
Lewis, Mark A.; Petrone, Robert; Sarigianides, Sophia Tatiana – National Council of Teachers of English, 2017
At the heart of "Rethinking the 'Adolescent' in Adolescent Literacy" is a call to English language arts teachers to examine the very assumptions of adolescence they may be operating from in order to reimagine new possibilities for engaging students with the English curriculum. Relying on a sociocultural view of adolescence established by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy, English, Language Arts
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Mohamud, Libin – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
This essay questions the place that conversations about 'race' hold in the English classroom. I hope to reveal the problems that may come with easily dismissing tense and racially charged dialogues about language and identity. I also explore the way classroom talk opens up an opportunity for students to create and contest different meanings and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Race, Classroom Communication
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Ravelli, Louise – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to reflect on pedagogical strategies which support the teaching of critical analysis of visual and multimodal texts in a tertiary-level course for Arts students. Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes strategies which focus on developing students' abilities to express interpretive critique, as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Writing (Composition), Art Education
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Panther, Leah – Multicultural Perspectives, 2020
When Ana, a student in Miss Jerome's American Literature course, watched a makeup tutorial instead of completing her assigned work, it became a critical incident highlighting how one educator used student counterscripts to critically center students' ways of knowing and ways of being in the English curriculum. Using culturally sustaining…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Decision Making, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods
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Yates, Lyn; Davies, Larissa McLean; Buzacott, Lucy; Doecke, Brenton; Mead, Philip; Sawyer, Wayne – Curriculum Journal, 2019
This article takes up questions about knowledge and the school curriculum with respect to literary studies within subject English. Its intention is to focus on literary studies in English from the context of current waves of curriculum reform, rather than as part of the conversations primarily within the field of English, to raise questions about…
Descriptors: Literacy, English Instruction, English Curriculum, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Baylor, Adrian – English in Texas, 2017
This article shares the experiences, tips, and passion of an English I teacher who teaches English language learners (ELLs) who have been in U.S. schools for at least one year. She provides information about various teaching strategies that have been effective in her classroom over the past few years. The article addresses student grouping,…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, English Curriculum
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