Teachers' Reading/Teachers' Lives (Suny Series, (SUNY series, Urban Voices, Urban Visions)

Investigates teachers' classroom personal reading histories and how they influence the development of one becoming a resisting reader/teacher.Mary Kay Rummel is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Rummel is coeditor of Elementary Language Arts Instruction. Elizabeth P. Quintero is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Quintero is coeditor of Immigrant Learners and Their Families: Literacy to Connect the Generations. The Premise Of This Book Is Important: That Teachers' Literacy Experiences Not Only Make A Difference In Their Literacy Instruction But Also In Their Professional Judgment And Actions Related To Curriculum Decisions, And Their Resistance To Prescribed Methods And Materials Which Do Not Allow Children's Literacy To Flourish. The Teachers' Own Words In The Autobiographical Chapters Offer Powerful Testimony Supporting Approaches To Literacy That Encourage And Support The Job Of Reading And Writing, Rather Than Pedantic And Meaningless Curriculum Methods That Emphasize Isolated Skills And Drills. The Topic Is Very Significant. There Is Currently A Backlash Against The Whole Language Approach, Which Through The Years Has Had Other Titles But Has Always Emphasized The Creative, Responsive Teaching Described In Meaningful, Individual, Integrated And Joyful Approaches To The Teaching Of Reading And Writing. This Book Could Have A Positive Influence On The Current Discussions About The Teaching Of Literacy. Pt. I. Introduction And Voice Matters: Autobiographical Sketches Of Teacher-authors. 1. Introduction: Sensitive Dependence On Initial Conditions. 2. Voice Matters: Autobiographical Sketches Of Mary Kay Rummel. 3. Voice Matters: Autobiographical Sketches Of Elizabeth Quintero -- Pt. Ii. The Teachers' Stories. 4. Bill Simpson. 5. Pamela Russell. 6. David Haynes. 7. Lisa Boehlke. 8. Tracy Montero. 9. Donn Renee Morson-mckie. 10. Wayne Wazouko. 11. Dell Tideman. 12. Vicki Brathwaite. 13. Kathryn Mongon. 14. Mary Tacheny. 15. Raul Quintanilla. 16. Judith Borer -- Pt. Iii. Reflections. 17. Metaphor And Art As Frameworks For Living. 18. Nurturance Past And Present (self And Others). 19. Family History. 20. Resisting Reader/teacher. Mary Kay Rummel And Elizabeth P. Quintero. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.