A comprehensive English methods text that grounds students in theory and prepares them for practice, this fifth edition retains the strengths of its predecessors while addressing new developments in English education, education generally, and our culture.
In this comprehensive English methods text, prospective teachers get a huge array of active, constructivist, student-centered approaches and activities to prepare them to enter their own classrooms. While retaining the strengths of its predecessors and addressing new developments in the field of English education, of education generally, and of the culture, this fifth edition effectively grounds students in theory and prepares them to practice. The authors invite students to consider new ideas about literature, language, and learning in light of their own experience as students and in anticipation of their own practices as teachers.
The increasing diversity of today's students, with their unique learning styles and needs; the expanding definition of literacy; the mounting pressures of accountability and end-of-course testing; and the challenges and opportunities arising from rapid advances in technology are subjects that the authors tackle to bring the text up to date and in step with what's really happening in today's classrooms. The many features of the text make it easily accessible for prospective teachers building their own instructional foundation.