Teacher Practice Online

Teachers know how complicated their work is. They constantly balance considerations for individual students with those of the group; they think about how past events affect today’s lessons; and they constantly adapt and revise for future lessons. But few people ever get to see teachers’ work in this way. The most energizing, relational, complicated, inspiring, disheartening parts of teaching remain largely invisible. For over nearly a decade at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Désirée Pointer Mace worked with dozens of teachers across the country to open their doors” by creating multimedia, web-based representations of teaching practice. This book describes how such multimedia representations are envisioned, documented, created, and shared and how others might engage in this process

Dsire H. Pointer Mace is an Assistant Professor of Education at Alverno College.

Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Overview: Learning from (and with) Technology	p. 1
Tracing the Wisdom of Practice	p. 2
Learning to Do Collaborative Documentation of Teaching: "Terry Loomis"	p. 2
Capturing the Complex Practice of Veteran Teachers: Yvonne Divans Hutchinson	p. 4
Enacting Specific Practices: Jennifer Myers	p. 5
Inquiry and Community: Irma Lyons	p. 6
Looking Across Practices: Every Child a Reader and Writer	p. 7
About This Book	p. 8
Multimedia Representations of Teaching Practice: Allied Approaches to Making Teaching Public	p. 9
What Is a Multimedia Representation of Teaching?	p. 9
How Can an MRT Be Framed/Represented?	p. 13
Whom Are MRTs For? How Are They Used?	p. 16
How Does the Emergence of MRTs Connect to Other Developing Traditions?	p. 17
Dilemmas in MRTs: A Dialogue	p. 17
Terry Loomis: Learning to See, Learning to Do	p. 20
The Role of Multimedia Documentation	p. 21
Using Media Tools to Document Language and Culture	p. 22
Introducing the Planned Multimedia Project	p. 22
"Why Don't They Celebrate Mexicans?": An Unexpected Turn	p. 24
The Unplanned Multimedia Project: Making Movies to Share Language and Culture	p. 26
Learning from the Unexpected: The Potential for Multimedia in the Classroom	p. 35
Yvonne Divans Hutchinson: Capturing the Complexity of Experienced Teaching Practice	p. 37
Going Public with Hutchinson's Class: Inventing the "Class Anatomy"	p. 39
Content Focus: Facilitating a Discussion of a Memoir	p. 39
Practitioner Goals	p. 40
Documentation of the Class Period	p. 41
Creating a Multimedia Representation of Hutchinson's Teaching	p. 48
How Hutchinson's Practice Can Be Used for Teacher Learning and Development	p. 50
Jennifer Myers: Chronicling a Classroom Literacy Environment	p. 56
Going Public with Myers's Class: The Literacy Workshop Approach	p. 57
Content Focus: The Reading and Writing Workshop Approach	p. 57
Practitioner Goals	p. 58
Documentation of the Literacy Workshop	p. 59
Word Study	p. 66
Writing Workshop	p. 66
Reflection on the Day	p. 74
Creating a Multimedia Representation of Myers's Teaching	p. 75
How Myers's Practice Can Be Used for Teacher Learning and Development	p. 77
Irma Lyons: Putting Faces on a Learning Community	p. 81
Going Public with Lyons's Class: Documenting a Learning Community	p. 81
Content Focus: Emulating the Community of the Harlem Renaissance	p. 82
Practitioner Goals	p. 82
Documentation of the Harlem Renaissance Museum Project	p. 82
Creating a Multimedia Representation of Lyons's Teaching	p. 90
How Lyons's Practice Can Be Used for Teacher Learning and Development	p. 92
The Noyce Collaborative: Looking into and Across Practices	p. 94
Going Public with the Every Child a Reader and Writer Initiative	p. 95
Documenting Four Classroom Approaches to Personal Narrative Writing	p. 100
Creating a Frame to Look Across Classroom Practices: Telling Five Stories at the Same Time	p. 109
How the Inside Writing Workshop Can Be Used for Teacher Learning and Development	p. 111
Into Our Own Classrooms: How Going Public Can Launch and Sustain a Vibrant Teaching Life	p. 115
Joining a Global Network of Educators	p. 115
Where to Begin?	p. 116
Changing Teaching by Opening Our Doors	p. 118
Appendix: Documentary Protocol	p. 121
References	p. 127
Index	p. 135
About the Author	p. 143
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