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Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era Arthur T. Costigan

Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era By Arthur T. Costigan

Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era by Arthur T. Costigan


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Providing teachers with the theoretical stances and pedagogical tools to develop a beneficial Language Arts practice, this book empowers teachers to be effective even within the confines of a testing- and accountability-driven curriculum.

Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era Summary

Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era by Arthur T. Costigan

Most pre-service education students are enthusiastic about the progressive, constructivist, and student-centered theory and practice advocated in many teacher education programs and by the National Council of Teachers of English. Yet in actual day-to-day practice, teachers often have trouble thinking of ways in which such student-centered and constructivist practices in literacy instruction can be implemented in classrooms which are increasingly driven by high stakes tests, increased accountability, and mandated and even 'teacher proof' scripted curricula. Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era provides a powerful and much-needed counterargument to the assumption that test-driven curricula preclude meaningful instruction and authentic student engagement within a Language Arts curriculum. Providing teachers with the theoretical stances and pedagogicals tools to develop a Language Arts practice which can be personally rewarding as well as beneficial to students,Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era empowers teachers to be effective even within the confines of a testing- and accountability-driven curriculum.

About Arthur T. Costigan

Arthur Costigan is Assistant Professor of Education at Queens College, City University of New York. A former New York City high school teacher, his research interest is the ways in which new teachers become socialized into the profession. With Margaret Crocco he has co-authored, Learning to Teach in an Age of Accountability.

Table of Contents

@contents:Selected Contents:

Chapter One: Surviving and Thriving in a Test- and Accountability-Driven Culture

Chapter Two: Constructivist Controversies

Chapter Three: Writing Theory and Practice

Chapter Four: Reading Theory and Practice

Chapter Five: Symbolic Assessment and Authentic Assessment

Chapter Six: Aesthetic Education

Chapter Seven: Teaching Social Justice in a Test-Driven Era

Chapter Eight: Teaching Language Arts in a Test Driven Era

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NLS9780415955782
9780415955782
0415955785
Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era by Arthur T. Costigan
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2007-10-31
204
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