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Words Matter: Teacher Language and Student Learning is a tool for teachers. It encourages readers to reflect on their actions and reactions during everyday classroom activities and evaluate how their oral language and gestures affect students and their learning, whether for good or ill. Dr. Glazer hopes to help teachers enable their students to become enthusiastic, independent, lifelong learners.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Your Effect on the Classroom Environment
Chapter 2: Understanding Differences Before Judging Learners
Chapter 3: The Effect of Your Beliefs on Student Learning: Classroom Management
Chapter 4: Sharing Control with Children: On the Way to a Student-Centered Classroom
Chapter 5. Strategies That Allow Children to Take Charge
Chapter 6: When There Are No Solutions
Appendixes
References
Index
About the Author
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Susan Mandel Glazer is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Reading/Language Arts and the Founder and Director of the Center for Reading and Writing at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She received her Ed.D in Literacy Education from the University of Pennsylvania. During the course of her illustrious career, Dr. Glazer has authored and coauthored 17 books and more than 200 articles and columns, as well as numerous chapters in edited volumes. Some of her books include:
Portfolios and Beyond: Collaborative Assessment in Reading and Writing; Teaching All Children to Write: A Little Comprehensive Guide; Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study; and Assessment IS Instruction: Reading, Writing and Phonics for ALL Learners.She served as Preseident of the International Reading Association in 1994-1995.
Zusammenfassung
Words Matter: Teacher Language and Student Learning is a tool for teachers. It encourages readers to reflect on their actions and reactions during everyday classroom activities and evaluate how their oral language and gestures affect students and their learning, whether for good or ill. Dr. Glazer hopes to help teachers enable their students to become enthusiastic, independent, lifelong learners.
