Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach

D: How Can Students Learn Complex Material While Still Struggling

to Improve Their Reading Skills? 187

E: How Can the Same Text Have Multiple Meanings? 190

Using Multicultural Literature to Understand Self and World

by Judith Y. Singer and Sally Smith 190

F: How Can Classroom Practice Promote Student Literacies? 192

G: How Can Teachers Learn and Teach About Technology in a Universe

Where Technology Is Continually Changing? 193

H: What Is Technological Literacy? 196

Technology Is All Around Youby Gary Benenson 196

Using Modern Educational Technology Makes Your Lessons More Exciting

by Jason Noone 198

8 Assessment: How Should Teachers Assess Student Learning

and Their Own Performance? 201

A: How Should Teachers Assess Student Learning? 204

B: How Can Teachers Design Fair Assessments? 207

C: Sample Assessment Rubrics 209

D: Ideas for Designing Fair Tests That Authentically Assess

Student Understanding 211

E: What Does a Student Portfolio Look Like? 217

F: How Should Teachers Assess Their Own Practice? 219

G: Classroom Observation Forms 221

9 Support: How Can Teachers Provide Support for Students Having

Difficulty in School and Life? 225

A: What Should Teachers Know About the World of Children

and Adolescents? 226

Valuing What Our Students Knowby Judith Kaufman 226

B: Becoming a Teacher 6: What Kind of Support Do Teenagers Need? 232

Nobody Ever Told Me I Was Specialby Lauren Rosenberg 232

A Couple Since They Were 14 234

I Am Tired of Seeing Black and Latino Students Not Succeeding

by Samuel Charles 235

I Did Not Want to Be Another Hispanic Statisticby Ruth Santos 236

I Was in Sixth Grade and Could Not Readby Adeola Tella 238

I Needed to Be Accepted; I Needed to Feel Safeby J. B. Barton 239

C: Why Are Students At Risk? 242

Every Student Here Is At Riskby Alan Singer 242

D: Why Did People Die at Columbine? 244

E: How Should Schools Deal With Tragic Events? 247

F: What Kind of Support Do Teachers Need? 248

Teachers Need Support, Too: The New Teachers Network’s Response

to the Amadou Diallo Caseby S. Maxwell Hines, Maureen Murphy,

Alan Singer, and Sandra Stacki 248

10 Struggle: How Can We Struggle to Be More Effective Teachers
and Build Better Schools? 253
A: What Should You Think About as You Prepare to Student Teach
or Start Your First Teaching Position? 255

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