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Description:What counts as professionalism for teachers today?Once, teachers who knew their content area and knew how to teach it were respected as professionals. Now there is an additional type of competency in addition to content and pedagogical knowledge, educators need advocacy skills.In this groundbreaking collection, literacy educators describe how they are redefining what it means to be a teaching professional. Teachers share how they are trying to change the conversation surrounding literacy and literacy instruction by explaining to colleagues, administrators, parents, and community members why they teach in particular research-based ways, so often contradicted by mandated curricula and standardized assessments. Teacher educators also share how they are introducing an advocacy approach to preservice and practicing teachers, helping prepare teachers for this new professionalism. Both groups practice what the authors call “everyday advocacy”: the day-to-day actions teachers are taking to change the public narrative surrounding schools, teachers, and learning. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative. To get started finding Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 0393714381

Description: What counts as professionalism for teachers today?Once, teachers who knew their content area and knew how to teach it were respected as professionals. Now there is an additional type of competency in addition to content and pedagogical knowledge, educators need advocacy skills.In this groundbreaking collection, literacy educators describe how they are redefining what it means to be a teaching professional. Teachers share how they are trying to change the conversation surrounding literacy and literacy instruction by explaining to colleagues, administrators, parents, and community members why they teach in particular research-based ways, so often contradicted by mandated curricula and standardized assessments. Teacher educators also share how they are introducing an advocacy approach to preservice and practicing teachers, helping prepare teachers for this new professionalism. Both groups practice what the authors call “everyday advocacy”: the day-to-day actions teachers are taking to change the public narrative surrounding schools, teachers, and learning. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative. To get started finding Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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