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Author Costigan, Arthur T., author

Title An authentic English language arts curriculum : finding your way in a standards-driven context / Arthur T. Costigan
Edition 1st
Published London : Routledge, 2018

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Contents An authentic English Language Arts curriculum- Front Cover; An authentic English Language Arts curriculum; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Welcome to This Book; How Does This Book Work?; References; Chapter 1: The English Orientation; Your English Orientation; Two Teachers, Two Classrooms, Two Curricula; Two Teachers, Two Lessons, Two Approaches; Your Students' Orientation: "Good Students"and "Not Good" Students; Creating Students Who Are Not Only Good at English, But Are Good at Loving It; What Does This Have to Do with English?
Thinking About Learning and Doing TeachingReferences; Chapter 2: The Foundations of Practice: Where We Come From and Where We Are Now; Where Does ELA Teaching Come From?; The Beginnings of the Story; The Foundations of English Language Arts Conversations: Literary Theory; The Foundations of English Language Arts Conversations: Reading; The Foundations of English Language Arts Conversations: Writing; Moving Forward; Thinking About Learning and Doing Teaching; References; Chapter 3: English Language Arts: What Is It, How Is It Learned, and How Do You Teach It?; "Where" is English Language Arts?
The Traditional or Commonsense Approach ExplainedThe Process or Uncommonsense Approach Explained; How Speaking Fits in with Writing and Reading; More About English Language Arts as Product and Commodity: Banking; Speaking Aligned with Writing (and Reading): The Story; Creating English Language Arts: The Points and the Wings; The Wings and The Law of One Detailed; The Point and Wings in Classroom Discussions; Writing, Reading, and Speaking as Text; Retaining Texts; Getting The Text In the Head: More on Intermodality; Thinking About Learning and Doing Teaching; Lesson One: A Common Gatsby
A Greater GatsbyHow the Aesthetic Works; References; Chapter 4: Expanding Our Understanding of Intermodality; The Body and Movement (Kinesthetics); More on Intermodality; Getting Back To Gatsby; A Short Digression About Recording Class Activities; Learning as Imitation and Play; Designing Curriculum: The Big Picture; The BHI, The Unit, The Pericope, and Lesson Activities; The Annie on My Mind Unit: Developing Special and Ordinary Relationships; A Kinesthetic Lesson; Good Teaching or Bad? Graphic Organizers; Good Teaching or Bad? Whole Group Unrehearsed Public Reading
Good Teaching and Bad? Contextual Information, The Third FactorThinking about Learning, and Doing Teaching: Reality and Curriculum; Some General Rules for Teaching and Learning; Contextual Information and Lines of Inquiry; References; Chapter 5: The ELA Classroom in the Context of Contemporary Schooling: Educational Reform, Standards, and Assessment; How We Got Here; Neoconservative and Neoliberal Educational Reforms; OK, So What Does All This Have to Do with Teaching ELA?; Teaching from the Human Heart versus Teaching to Standards; An Intermodal Interlude
Summary This book provides ways of thinking for preservice and new teachers to transition from the theory behind curricular design to engaged teaching and learning in the classroom. It offers a comprehensive framework for the creation and implementation of one's own authentic and effective ELA curriculum. In addition to strategies for preservice teachers to develop their own pedagogies, lessons, and teaching techniques, Costigan also demonstrates how to design tools for teaching in the current testing- and standards-driven context of the educational reform movement. Containing real-life examples of reading and writing instruction, this book empowers preservice teachers to translate the concepts of curriculum design to actual ELA classroom practices that will engage students
Notes 1. Introduction: The English Orientation 2. The Foundations of Practice: Where We Come From and Where We Are Now 3. English Language Arts: What Is It, How Is It Learned, and How Do You Teach It? 4. Expanding Our Understanding of Intermodality 5. The ELA Classroom in the Context of Contemporary Schooling: Educational Reform, Standards, and Assessment 6. Multiple Literacies as Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in English Language Arts, by Limarys Caraballo
Subject Language arts -- Curricula
English language -- Study and teaching.
Student teachers -- Training of
Arthur T. Costigan.
aesthetic education.
authentic assessment.
authentic curriculum.
CCSS.
curriculum design.
ELA curriculum.
ELA teaching.
English Language Arts.
holistic education.
uncommonsense.
ways of thinking.
English language -- Study and teaching
Language arts -- Curricula
Student teachers -- Training of
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