Mac & Marie LOVE Kylene Beers
Author: Ms. Mac (@teachdmac)
Bronx-based high school English teacher dedicated to radically improving instruction for newcomers and multilingual students; always in search of time to read, write, connect, breathe and, of course, sleep. Ok, maybe not much sleep.
Deductive Approach: Teaching Students to Trust Their Ideas
Wall of genre-specific tools In my 11th grade class, my students have divergent opinions about what makes for a good book. They have a long list of… Read more “Deductive Approach: Teaching Students to Trust Their Ideas”
Student-Led Discourse Made Easy
We call our replacement for guided reading Wide Awake Reading because we focus on teaching kids that reading means being fully engaged with each other. We approach… Read more “Student-Led Discourse Made Easy”
#DigIn: 5 Paragraph Essays
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#TeacherInspo of the Week
Kylene Beers, Disrupting Thinking
The more capable readers are of compassion, the more likely it is that they will be able to read well. Compassion should sharpen the readers’ ability to see other points of view, other perspectives, and to imagine the feelings of those who hold them. It should enable readers to take, if only momentarily, the perspective of someone else and thus better understand motivations and thinking.
Our vision as teachers
If you tell your students what to say and how to say it, you may never hear them, only the pale echoes of what they imagine you… Read more “Our vision as teachers”
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