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Pamela K. Coke – English Journal, 2018
The author asks, "Where can we, as English language arts teachers, create room in our classrooms for curiosity--for students and for ourselves?" She outlines ways to use Genius Hour to help create an equitable, level classroom with access and ownership for all.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Arts, English Teachers, Personality Traits
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Kathleen Dudden Rowlands – English Journal, 2016
The author, who teaches the English Methods class in the credential program, knew from entries in students' Writer's Reader's Notebooks (Rief) that they were struggling with the articles assigned about a five-paragraph essay. Following a discussion of form-first instruction and CCSS assessments, this article provides concrete suggestions for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, English Instruction
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Dawan Coombs; Jonathan Ostenson – English Journal, 2014
In this article, the English teacher educator authors explore the parallel journeys of their students and themselves that resulted from asking preservice teachers in their methods courses to participate in an assignment specifically crafted to examine the instructors' practice to cultivate reflection on the students' future practices. The authors…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Assignments
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Khasnabis, Debi; Reischl, Catherine H.; Stull, Melissa; Boerst, Timothy – English Journal, 2013
There is an alternative to conventional teacher mentorship. The authors describe and analyze a promising model of mentorship where multiple mentees and mentors, each with varying levels of experience, engage collaboratively in the study of teaching practice. They have found that well-designed contexts in which beginning and experienced teachers…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teaching Methods, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers
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Broz, William J. – English Journal, 2011
"Not reading," even for many good students, has become a mode of operation with respect to book-length texts assigned in school. Many students enter secondary and postsecondary literature classes "intending" to "not read" the books teachers assign. More students than teachers want to admit do not complete assigned reading, choosing instead to…
Descriptors: Literature, Reading Assignments, Teaching Methods, Teacher Expectations of Students
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Graham, Meadow Sherrill; Benson, Sheila – English Journal, 2010
In the authors' experience as teacher educators, many preservice teachers view literacy as a print-bound process. With multimodal literacy becoming more important as many states push for 21st-century learning standards, the authors are always looking for ways to help students break their concepts of literacy away from the printed page. As they…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Educators, Literacy
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Broz, William J. – English Journal, 2010
Using examples from college and high school students, the author describes how asking students to respond to literature using a variety of graphic media can enhance their interpretive skills. Some students who don't like to write essays or who seemingly aren't good at writing essays enjoy making graphic response to literature and are good at it.…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Essays, Interpretive Skills, High School Students
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Morton, Beatrice K. – English Journal, 1974
The novel is important to teach; there is no one novel, though, that every student needs to read; flexibility and ingenuity are called for. (JH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Humanization, Literature Appreciation, Methods Courses
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McCracken, Nancy Mellin; Sekicky, Natalie – English Journal, 1998
Describes the collaboration between a third-year high school teacher and a seasoned education professor, in which the two traded places, coteaching each other's classes for the entire school year. Discusses getting started, what they expected and what they learned, long-term individual effects of collaboration, ensuring success, and collaboration…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, College School Cooperation, English Instruction, Grade 9
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Key, Daphne – English Journal, 2001
Argues that reflecting on important "marker" stories in people's lives by using counting ropes (based on the children's book "Knots on a Counting Rope" by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault) helps students and teachers make sense of their complex worlds. Describes how they are used in the author's language arts methods course. Describes a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
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Grommon, Alfred H. – English Journal, 1968
This chronological survey, extending from the laws passed in 1642 in Massachusetts to establish schools for the teaching of reading and writing to the 1968 Guidelines for the Preparation of Teachers of English, presents a discussion of varying attitudes toward English teaching and English teacher education. Divergent opinions on many topics are…
Descriptors: Education Majors, English Education, English Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education
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Bowman, Cindy; Edenfield, Renn – English Journal, 2000
Describes the Better Together project and website, which connected preservice teachers with seventh-grade reluctant readers through pen-pal correspondences and email, a variety of small and large group technology-based activities, tutoring, and classroom visits and teaching. Offers descriptions from two of the preservice teachers. Discusses…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Technology, English Instruction, Grade 7