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The exhibition and the accompanying overview explore the challenges and possibilities of learning from the practice of teaching by bringing together materials from four web-based representations of teaching in three different arrangements: |
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Class anatomies that document a single class or unit of instruction in the work of a veteran high school English teacher, a veteran teacher educator, and two novice teachers.
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A study of a specific high leverage practice – the teaching of group discussion – across these four different classroom contexts.
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Reflections on the learning trajectories of these novice and veteran teachers who are studying their own practice and the practice of other teachers.
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These arrangements illustrate some of the aspects of teaching and learning that can be represented using these sites while their juxtaposition also points to aspects that remain unrepresented. |
The four websites that serve as the sources for this exhibition document:
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One day in Yvonne Hutchinson’s 9th grade classroom in Los Angeles (in 2001) in which she engages her students in a group discussion of A Call to Assembly by Willie Ruff.
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A unit in Pam Grossman and Christa Compton’s teacher education course “Methods in Secondary English” (in 2003) that uses Hutchinson’s website as a “text” to help them learn how to lead group discussions in their own classrooms.
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A unit on Othello and a later class in which students discuss Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind that Travis Bristol – a student in Grossman and Compton’s class in 2003 – taught during his second year of teaching in New York City (in 2005-2006).
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A unit that features the use of literature circles to help students develop a critical perspective in a ninth-grade Humanities course that Emily Venson – another student from Grossman and Compton’s class in 2003 – taught during her third year of teaching in New York City (in spring 2007).
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