The goal of this case study of a mindful literacy teacher in a middle school social studies class
was to describe the nature of one teacher’s differentiated text choices in one seven week unit.
The participant was nominated by an administrator, a district supervisor, a university professor,
and the researcher based on characteristics of mindful literacy instruction. Classroom
observations and teacher interviews described four differentiated text events: an historical fiction
novel unit; primary source oral histories; expository non-fiction articles; and picture books,
magazines, and an anthology set. Interview transcripts were coded using constant comparative
analysis and revealed the teacher’s belief in stories, student choice, her resistance to standardized
testing, and her own teaching confidence and activist spirit. The discussion addresses the
teacher’s effectiveness in the areas of collaboration with students, the assignment of varied and
plentiful texts, the expectation of high achievement for herself and students; and her effective
management of the differentiated texts in the classroom. The researcher also concluded that this
teacher did not have the expertise to diagnose or remediate basic reading deficits but her
disposition in seeing herself as a reading teacher, challenging mandated curricula, and working
to offer appropriate choices for all of her students supported her decision to offer differentiated
text choices.
The goal of this case study of a mindful literacy teacher in a middle school social studies classwas to describe the nature of one teacher’s differentiated text choices in one seven week unit.The participant was nominated by an administrator, a district supervisor, a university professor,and the researcher based on characteristics of mindful literacy instruction. Classroomobservations and teacher interviews described four differentiated text events: an historical fictionnovel unit; primary source oral histories; expository non-fiction articles; and picture books,magazines, and an anthology set. Interview transcripts were coded using constant comparativeanalysis and revealed the teacher’s belief in stories, student choice, her resistance to standardizedtesting, and her own teaching confidence and activist spirit. The discussion addresses theteacher’s effectiveness in the areas of collaboration with students, the assignment of varied andplentiful texts, the expectation of high achievement for herself and students; and her effectivemanagement of the differentiated texts in the classroom. The researcher also concluded that thisteacher did not have the expertise to diagnose or remediate basic reading deficits but herdisposition in seeing herself as a reading teacher, challenging mandated curricula, and workingto offer appropriate choices for all of her students supported her decision to offer differentiatedtext choices.
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