Notes From Carrie’s Lecture October 27th, 2005

5 ways to approach learning about your students and setting an environment where they are learning about each other:

1.) Give students every opportunity to answer their own questions.
2.) Put students in charge of teaching-they are all experts in one way or another-find their area of expertise and put them in charge.
3.) Put yourself in their context (even if it is uncomfortable or new to you).
4.) Maximize your students’ amount of doing and minimize ‘teacher talk’.
5.) Create opportunities to unexpectedly hear your students’ voices.

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Recommended Books for hearing student’s multiple perspectives:

1.) Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K 12 Anti Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development: by Enid Lee (Editor).
2.) Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word:
by Linda Christensen (Editor).
3.) Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years: by Bill Bigelow (Editor).
4.) Brave New Voices : The YOUTH SPEAKS Guide to Teaching Spoken Word Poetry:
by Jen Weiss, Scott Herndon
5.) Encounter by Jane Yolen (children’s book).
6.) The Sound That Jazz Makes: by Carole Boston Weatherford (children’s book).
7.) Cinder Edna: by Ellen Jackson (children’s book).