Classrooms of Wonder and Wisdom

Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking for the 21st Century
Kurtis S. Meredith - University of Northern Iowa, USA
Jeannie L. Steele - University of Northern Iowa, USA
Classrooms of Wonder and Wisdom
September 2010 | 192 pages | Corwin
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"The authors illuminate theoretical ideas with insightful, practical ways for teachers to encourage students to develop the critical and creative thinking necessary in a flourishing democratic society."
—Angela Ward, Acting Associate Dean, University of Saskatchewan College of Education

"An excellent resource filled with useful strategies and approaches for creating student-centered learning through reading and writing."
—Eric A. Combs, Teacher, Fairborn City Schools, OH

Discover how to enhance learning for your students

Engaging from the first page, this is a book that you "do" rather than read. Award-winning authors Kurtis S. Meredith and Jeannie L. Steele actively guide teachers through the learning process with this well-tested and successful literacy-based professional development program. Educators are encouraged to assess their knowledge, make predictions, ask questions, and track their own progress to deepen their understanding of teaching and learning processes. Grounded in a framework that has been effectively implemented in more than 30 countries, the carefully designed sequence prepares teachers to help students:

  • Become lifelong learners with the capacity to integrate knowledge and experiences across content areas
  • Efficiently sort information and transform learning into action
  • Contextualize knowledge by adding new information to what they already know
  • Enhance their capacity to meet 21st-century demands

Each chapter includes an overview of expected outcomes, self-evaluation activities, learning experiences, and reflection exercises. This action-oriented guidebook is immediately applicable and is ideal for individual or group professional development.


 

Contents

Preface

  • Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction

  • 1. Beginning a Professional Development Journey
  • Evocation 1
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Evocation 2
  • The Change Process
  • About This Text
  • Assumptions, Values, and Beliefs
  • Expectations
  • The Role of Critical Thought
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Chapter Reflection
  • Journal Entry
  • 2. A Framework for Teaching and Learning
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Rationale
  • Experiential Framework Lesson
  • Examining the Framework
  • The ERR Framework Revisited
  • Critical Thinking and the Framework
  • Framework Strategies Organizational Chart
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 3. Narrative Text and the Power of Questioning
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Teacher Questioning
  • Model ERR Lesson With a Narrative Text
  • Narrative Lesson Analysis
  • ERR as a Multitiered Model
  • Questioning
  • Reflection
  • 4. Advancing Critical Thought
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Evocation
  • Realization of Meaning
  • Creating an Environment for Critical Thought
  • Essential Classroom Elements of Critical Thinking
  • Lesson Analysis
  • Chapter Summary
  • 5. Framework Strategies
  • Outcomes of Using the ERR Framework
  • Other Writing-for-Thinking Strategies
  • Reflection
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 6. Cooperative Learning
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Overview
  • Classrooms as Environments for Thinking
  • What Is Cooperative Learning?
  • The Cooperative-Learning Classroom
  • Sample Cooperative-Learning Lessons
  • Brief Cooperative Strategies
  • Cooperative Math Activities
  • Brief Exercises for Problem Solving and Discussion
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 7. Creating Thoughtful Readers
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Discussion of a Thoughtful Reading Process
  • Readers' Workshop
  • The Four Cornerstones of Readers' Workshop
  • Literary Letters
  • Book Talks
  • Readers' Workshop Rules
  • Summary of Readers' Workshop
  • Analysis of Reader's Workshop and the ERR Framework
  • Content Reading and Readers' Workshop
  • Applying the Reading Process to Content Areas
  • Applying Readers' Workshop Process to Science
  • Reading in Content Areas - The Link to Math
  • Mathematics Is More Than a Collection of Concepts and Skills
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 8. Learning to Write, Writing to Learn
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Writing Resurgence
  • Writing Defined
  • Writer's Workshop
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 9. Reflection
  • Evocation
  • Learning Centered
  • Transformative Experiences
  • Truth
  • Final Reflection
  • What to Do Now?

Appendix A

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix D

Appendix E

Appendix E

Appendix F

Appendix F

References

References

Index

Index

Description

"The authors illuminate theoretical ideas with insightful, practical ways for teachers to encourage students to develop the critical and creative thinking necessary in a flourishing democratic society."
—Angela Ward, Acting Associate Dean, University of Saskatchewan College of Education

"An excellent resource filled with useful strategies and approaches for creating student-centered learning through reading and writing."
—Eric A. Combs, Teacher, Fairborn City Schools, OH

Discover how to enhance learning for your students

Engaging from the first page, this is a book that you "do" rather than read. Award-winning authors Kurtis S. Meredith and Jeannie L. Steele actively guide teachers through the learning process with this well-tested and successful literacy-based professional development program. Educators are encouraged to assess their knowledge, make predictions, ask questions, and track their own progress to deepen their understanding of teaching and learning processes. Grounded in a framework that has been effectively implemented in more than 30 countries, the carefully designed sequence prepares teachers to help students:

  • Become lifelong learners with the capacity to integrate knowledge and experiences across content areas
  • Efficiently sort information and transform learning into action
  • Contextualize knowledge by adding new information to what they already know
  • Enhance their capacity to meet 21st-century demands

Each chapter includes an overview of expected outcomes, self-evaluation activities, learning experiences, and reflection exercises. This action-oriented guidebook is immediately applicable and is ideal for individual or group professional development.


 

Contents

Preface

  • Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction

  • 1. Beginning a Professional Development Journey
  • Evocation 1
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Evocation 2
  • The Change Process
  • About This Text
  • Assumptions, Values, and Beliefs
  • Expectations
  • The Role of Critical Thought
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Chapter Reflection
  • Journal Entry
  • 2. A Framework for Teaching and Learning
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Rationale
  • Experiential Framework Lesson
  • Examining the Framework
  • The ERR Framework Revisited
  • Critical Thinking and the Framework
  • Framework Strategies Organizational Chart
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 3. Narrative Text and the Power of Questioning
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Teacher Questioning
  • Model ERR Lesson With a Narrative Text
  • Narrative Lesson Analysis
  • ERR as a Multitiered Model
  • Questioning
  • Reflection
  • 4. Advancing Critical Thought
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Evocation
  • Realization of Meaning
  • Creating an Environment for Critical Thought
  • Essential Classroom Elements of Critical Thinking
  • Lesson Analysis
  • Chapter Summary
  • 5. Framework Strategies
  • Outcomes of Using the ERR Framework
  • Other Writing-for-Thinking Strategies
  • Reflection
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 6. Cooperative Learning
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Overview
  • Classrooms as Environments for Thinking
  • What Is Cooperative Learning?
  • The Cooperative-Learning Classroom
  • Sample Cooperative-Learning Lessons
  • Brief Cooperative Strategies
  • Cooperative Math Activities
  • Brief Exercises for Problem Solving and Discussion
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 7. Creating Thoughtful Readers
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Discussion of a Thoughtful Reading Process
  • Readers' Workshop
  • The Four Cornerstones of Readers' Workshop
  • Literary Letters
  • Book Talks
  • Readers' Workshop Rules
  • Summary of Readers' Workshop
  • Analysis of Reader's Workshop and the ERR Framework
  • Content Reading and Readers' Workshop
  • Applying the Reading Process to Content Areas
  • Applying Readers' Workshop Process to Science
  • Reading in Content Areas - The Link to Math
  • Mathematics Is More Than a Collection of Concepts and Skills
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 8. Learning to Write, Writing to Learn
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Writing Resurgence
  • Writing Defined
  • Writer's Workshop
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 9. Reflection
  • Evocation
  • Learning Centered
  • Transformative Experiences
  • Truth
  • Final Reflection
  • What to Do Now?

Appendix A

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix D

Appendix E

Appendix E

Appendix F

Appendix F

References

References

Index

Index

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Classrooms of Wonder and Wisdom

Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking for the 21st Century

Kurtis S. Meredith , Jeannie L. Steele
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"The authors illuminate theoretical ideas with insightful, practical ways for teachers to encourage students to develop the critical and creative thinking necessary in a flourishing democratic society."
—Angela Ward, Acting Associate Dean, University of Saskatchewan College of Education

"An excellent resource filled with useful strategies and approaches for creating student-centered learning through reading and writing."
—Eric A. Combs, Teacher, Fairborn City Schools, OH

Discover how to enhance learning for your students

Engaging from the first page, this is a book that you "do" rather than read. Award-winning authors Kurtis S. Meredith and Jeannie L. Steele actively guide teachers through the learning process with this well-tested and successful literacy-based professional development program. Educators are encouraged to assess their knowledge, make predictions, ask questions, and track their own progress to deepen their understanding of teaching and learning processes. Grounded in a framework that has been effectively implemented in more than 30 countries, the carefully designed sequence prepares teachers to help students:

  • Become lifelong learners with the capacity to integrate knowledge and experiences across content areas
  • Efficiently sort information and transform learning into action
  • Contextualize knowledge by adding new information to what they already know
  • Enhance their capacity to meet 21st-century demands

Each chapter includes an overview of expected outcomes, self-evaluation activities, learning experiences, and reflection exercises. This action-oriented guidebook is immediately applicable and is ideal for individual or group professional development.


 


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Beginning a Professional Development Journey
  • Evocation 1
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Evocation 2
  • The Change Process
  • About This Text
  • Assumptions, Values, and Beliefs
  • Expectations
  • The Role of Critical Thought
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Chapter Reflection
  • Journal Entry
  • 2. A Framework for Teaching and Learning
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Rationale
  • Experiential Framework Lesson
  • Examining the Framework
  • The ERR Framework Revisited
  • Critical Thinking and the Framework
  • Framework Strategies Organizational Chart
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 3. Narrative Text and the Power of Questioning
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Teacher Questioning
  • Model ERR Lesson With a Narrative Text
  • Narrative Lesson Analysis
  • ERR as a Multitiered Model
  • Questioning
  • Reflection
  • 4. Advancing Critical Thought
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Evocation
  • Realization of Meaning
  • Creating an Environment for Critical Thought
  • Essential Classroom Elements of Critical Thinking
  • Lesson Analysis
  • Chapter Summary
  • 5. Framework Strategies
  • Outcomes of Using the ERR Framework
  • Other Writing-for-Thinking Strategies
  • Reflection
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 6. Cooperative Learning
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Overview
  • Classrooms as Environments for Thinking
  • What Is Cooperative Learning?
  • The Cooperative-Learning Classroom
  • Sample Cooperative-Learning Lessons
  • Brief Cooperative Strategies
  • Cooperative Math Activities
  • Brief Exercises for Problem Solving and Discussion
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 7. Creating Thoughtful Readers
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Discussion of a Thoughtful Reading Process
  • Readers' Workshop
  • The Four Cornerstones of Readers' Workshop
  • Literary Letters
  • Book Talks
  • Readers' Workshop Rules
  • Summary of Readers' Workshop
  • Analysis of Reader's Workshop and the ERR Framework
  • Content Reading and Readers' Workshop
  • Applying the Reading Process to Content Areas
  • Applying Readers' Workshop Process to Science
  • Reading in Content Areas - The Link to Math
  • Mathematics Is More Than a Collection of Concepts and Skills
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 8. Learning to Write, Writing to Learn
  • Evocation
  • Outcome Expectations
  • Writing Resurgence
  • Writing Defined
  • Writer's Workshop
  • Chapter Reflection
  • 9. Reflection
  • Evocation
  • Learning Centered
  • Transformative Experiences
  • Truth
  • Final Reflection
  • What to Do Now?
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Appendix D
  • Appendix E
  • Appendix F
  • References
  • Index

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"The authors bring their extraordinary experience to the task of masterfully suggesting powerful ways to effectively address the question of how we can best prepare students for life in the twenty-first century and bring about lasting change. They share a wealth of ideas for effective learning experiences in a range of professional development settings."
Adria Klein, Professor Emeritus, CSU San Bernardino, CA
"Jeannie Steele and Kurt Meredith illuminate theoretical ideas with insightful, practical ways for teachers to encourage students to develop the critical and creative thinking necessary in a flourishing democratic society."
Angela Ward, Acting Associate Dean, University of Saskatchewan College of Education
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“The author's excellent exercises and examples effectively illustrate the application of the instructional strategies. These examples are at the heart of the text and are the major reason it will be successful in improving classroom instruction.”
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