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"Perhaps These Are Not Poetic Times at All": Using Poetry to Cope with and Critique a High-Stakes Teacher Performance Assessment
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Kelly Chandler-Olcott; Sarah M. Fleming; Janine L. Nieroda – English Education, 2016
This study takes a fine-grained look at the inaugural implementation of a high-stakes teacher performance assessment (the edTPA) from multiple perspectives and chronicles how participants used the reading, writing, and discussion of poetry to cope with and sometimes critique the edTPA. Teacher researchers sought to understand multiple perspectives…
Descriptors: Poetry, Coping, Criticism, Performance Based Assessment
John Dewey, the Common Core, and the Teaching of English
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Brian White – English Education, 2015
In addition to being one of the authors of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), David Coleman has become the Standards' "most visible advocate" (Smith, Appleman, & Wilhelm, 2014, p. 10) and one of their "most prominent and articulate promoters" (Rabinowitz & Bancroft, 2014, p. 4). In a talk titled "Bringing the…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Common Core State Standards, Educational Philosophy