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Teaching Literacies in Diverse Contexts
A practical guide to teaching literacy in all its varied contexts.
Literacy education doesn’t just happen in schools, with young children. It can take place in many locations, and at many different points in people’s lives. Literacy educators, therefore, need flexibility and a deep toolbox to meet their students’ diverse needs, regardless of whether they work in traditional school and college settings or in other environments with varied populations. Teaching Literacy in Diverse Contexts shows how practical experiences can be used in creative ways to support educator development for teaching literacy in a global context. Mentorship between a developing literacy educator and an experienced teacher educator is central to the book, and to the practical experiences in training or professional development that it focuses on. Chapters share the creative solutions discovered during mentorship that supported developing literacy educators to teach with authenticity in a number of contexts, including the adult learning sector, a rural community in Africa, and alongside parents of very sick children. Together, the chapters build a crucial resource for preparing a broad range of literacy educators to teach literacy in many contexts where policy on how best to teach reading and writing to diverse student bodies ebbs and flows.
Literacy education doesn’t just happen in schools, with young children. It can take place in many locations, and at many different points in people’s lives. Literacy educators, therefore, need flexibility and a deep toolbox to meet their students’ diverse needs, regardless of whether they work in traditional school and college settings or in other environments with varied populations. Teaching Literacy in Diverse Contexts shows how practical experiences can be used in creative ways to support educator development for teaching literacy in a global context. Mentorship between a developing literacy educator and an experienced teacher educator is central to the book, and to the practical experiences in training or professional development that it focuses on. Chapters share the creative solutions discovered during mentorship that supported developing literacy educators to teach with authenticity in a number of contexts, including the adult learning sector, a rural community in Africa, and alongside parents of very sick children. Together, the chapters build a crucial resource for preparing a broad range of literacy educators to teach literacy in many contexts where policy on how best to teach reading and writing to diverse student bodies ebbs and flows.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Key terms
Introduction: Towards diverse clinical practices within literacy professional preparation programmes
Sinéad Harmey and Bobbie Kabuto
Section I: Strategies for supporting literacy educators
Introduction to Section I
1 Culturally relevant, culturally sustaining, and antiracist practices through an embedded literacy methods course
Eliza Braden, Michele Myers, Catherine Compton-Lilly
2 Supporting adult literacy learners: reviewing and reframing the place for phonics in the adult learning sector
Sinéad Harmey and Gemma Moss
3 Assessing phonological awareness in early childhood: scaffolding pre-service teachers’ play-based authentic assessments in field placements
Sara Michael-Luna and b Jody Silvester
4 Using video analysis to support the professional knowledge of literacy professionals
Sinéad Harmey and Bobbie Kabuto
5 Teacher dialogue in literacy continuing professional development: Developing reflective inquiry into practice
Helen Morris
Section II: Teaching literacies in diverse settings with diverse populations
Introduction to section II
6 On the other side of pedagogy: Teaching and learning with South African rural elementary teachers
Peggy Albers and Amy Seely Flint
7 Designing effective summer literacy learning programmes in Malta
Sue Bodman
8 A literacy coaching collaborative: Preparing community responsive coaches
Bobbie Kabuto, Christopher Wagner, Deepa S. Vasudevan
9 Literacy support for children with cancer: Parents as partners in a non-traditional learning environment
Sabina Bragg
10 Teaching-Free literacy: Working with teenagers and young adults
Tricia Millar, Stefanie Boyle, Laney Muir
Section III: supporting literacy educators from a distance
Introduction to section III
11 Practice-based learning through online teacher inquiry: Connecting literacy teachers in specialised and isolated locations
Christopher Wagner
12 ‘How in the world will we teach online? Re-envisioning literacy practicums for distance education
Kathleen Olmstead, Kathleen Colantonio-Yurko, Logan Rath
13 Virtual literacy coaching: moving beyond the traditional context
Celeste C. Bates and Meghan J. Malloy
Index
List of tables
List of contributors
Key terms
Introduction: Towards diverse clinical practices within literacy professional preparation programmes
Sinéad Harmey and Bobbie Kabuto
Section I: Strategies for supporting literacy educators
Introduction to Section I
1 Culturally relevant, culturally sustaining, and antiracist practices through an embedded literacy methods course
Eliza Braden, Michele Myers, Catherine Compton-Lilly
2 Supporting adult literacy learners: reviewing and reframing the place for phonics in the adult learning sector
Sinéad Harmey and Gemma Moss
3 Assessing phonological awareness in early childhood: scaffolding pre-service teachers’ play-based authentic assessments in field placements
Sara Michael-Luna and b Jody Silvester
4 Using video analysis to support the professional knowledge of literacy professionals
Sinéad Harmey and Bobbie Kabuto
5 Teacher dialogue in literacy continuing professional development: Developing reflective inquiry into practice
Helen Morris
Section II: Teaching literacies in diverse settings with diverse populations
Introduction to section II
6 On the other side of pedagogy: Teaching and learning with South African rural elementary teachers
Peggy Albers and Amy Seely Flint
7 Designing effective summer literacy learning programmes in Malta
Sue Bodman
8 A literacy coaching collaborative: Preparing community responsive coaches
Bobbie Kabuto, Christopher Wagner, Deepa S. Vasudevan
9 Literacy support for children with cancer: Parents as partners in a non-traditional learning environment
Sabina Bragg
10 Teaching-Free literacy: Working with teenagers and young adults
Tricia Millar, Stefanie Boyle, Laney Muir
Section III: supporting literacy educators from a distance
Introduction to section III
11 Practice-based learning through online teacher inquiry: Connecting literacy teachers in specialised and isolated locations
Christopher Wagner
12 ‘How in the world will we teach online? Re-envisioning literacy practicums for distance education
Kathleen Olmstead, Kathleen Colantonio-Yurko, Logan Rath
13 Virtual literacy coaching: moving beyond the traditional context
Celeste C. Bates and Meghan J. Malloy
Index