Teaching English through principled practice

Abstract

1. Principles of Practice. I. PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING. 2. Getting Started: Basics of Unit Design. 3. What Students Know and What Schools Assess. 4. Planning Backwards: How Endpoints Suggest Pathways. 5. Setting and Assessing Unit Goals. 6. Refining the Unit Focus. 7. Introductory Activities: Gateway to the Unit Concepts. 8. The Construction Zone: Building Toward Unit Goals. II. LIFE IN CLASSROOMS. 9. Setting Up Your Classroom. 10. How Ways of Talking Affect Ways of Learning. 11. Multimedia Composing with a Big Tool Kit. 12. Building Body Biographies. III. RETHINKING THE CURRICULUM. 13. Rethinking the Curriculum from a Multicultural Perspective. 14. Rethinking Character Education. 15. Rethinking Standards for Teaching English. Afterword: Theory in Practice. References. Appendix A: Texts for Thematic Units. Appendix B: Courtroom Case Study. Appendix C: Role-Playing Peer-Response Groups. Index. About the Author.

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