Heinemann / ISBN 0-325-00852-3 / 978-0-325-00852-3 / 2005 / 256 pp / paperback
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• Teaching English/Language Arts--Middle & Secondary

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Sometimes we find our teachers, and sometimes our teachers find us. If you do not know George Hillocks, Jr. and his work, then this volume will make you his student in ways that will be transformative.
--Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Coauthor of Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys

Sometimes we find our teachers, and sometimes our teachers find us. If you do not know George Hillocks, Jr. and his work, then this volume will make you his student in ways that will be transformative.
—Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Coauthor of Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys

How do you measure greatness in education? Neither the length of a vita nor the number of citations can tell the full story of an important figure like George Hillocks, Jr. The best way to understand his ideas and influence is to go inside classrooms where followers channel his passion for inquiry-based learning into dynamic language-arts lessons that support student success.

In Reflective Teaching, Reflective Learning twenty-one of Hillocks' former graduate students share how they apply his principles to encourage adolescents to become critically engaged readers, writers, and speakers. But far from a simple celebration of a master educator's work, Reflective Teaching, Reflective Learning describes specific, practical activities that create authentic, active learning through inquiry, meaningful peer interaction, and reflection. These activities can be put to immediate use as either additions to your existing lessons or as patterns for building new curricular and instructional models.

In an era when teachers face more pressures and scrutiny than ever, Reflective Teaching, Reflective Learning provides compelling testimony to what thoughtful, reflective language-arts teachers can accomplish. Read Reflective Teaching, Reflective Learning and discover that greatness in education is measured one student success at a time.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jeffrey Wilhelm
Introduction
Preface by George Hillocks, Jr., What I've Tried to Teach My Students
An Introduction to Inquiry
1. "At-risk" Students and the Use of Inquiry by Julianna Cucci and Jamie Kowalczyk
2. Inquiry Versus Naïve Relativism by Jeff Markham
Writing Instruction
3. Dialogue Folders: Creating Space to Engage Students in Conversation about Their Writing by Kevin Perks
4. Inquiry, Dialogue, and the Teaching of Writing by Joseph Flanagan
5. The Other Writing Process by Tim Pappageorge
Discussion and Activity
6. The Role of Play in Activity-Based Instruction by David A. Ragsdale and Peter Smagorinsky
7. Engaging Students in Authentic Discussions of Literature by Larry R. Johannessen and Elizabeth Kahn
8. It's Always Something: Planning for Sustained Discussion by Thomas M. McCann
Literature Instruction
9. Lessons from Chevys by Michael W. Smith
10. Reading Level Guide by Declan Fitzpatrick
11. Cultural Modeling in the Hillocks Tradition by Carol D. Lee
12. Critically Thinking about Harry Potter by Joanne M. Marshall
Inquiry, Learning, and Reflection
13. Learning Strategies and Knowing Oneself by Kierstin Thompson and Jennifer Roloff Welch
14. Increase the Peace by Steven Gevinson

Sample Chapters

• Read strategies for engaging students in authentic literature discussions.