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Commeyras, Michelle – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
In this article, the author recounts her experiences with the scripted teaching of reading and describes how her observations of scripted reading lessons changed her decision on preparing teachers to make informed instructional decisions based on their knowledge of reading as an orchestration of interrelated cognitive processes. Given the number…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Cognitive Processes, Teacher Educators, Reading Instruction
Wigginton, Eliot – 1986
In fall 1966, Eliot Wigginton took his first teaching job in Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, a semiprivate rural Georgia high school with both local and boarding students. This book is his account of his early struggle to control and interest his students, the genesis and development of the student-produced Foxfire publications, and his views on the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Boarding Schools, Educational Principles, Educational Strategies