I'm wondering who's actually reading the blog these days . . . hopefully now that action research papers and portfolios are out of the way, you've got some breathing space.
We need to decide on the April book in time to order it so you can read it. I've proposed two options in a previous post:
Letters to a New Teacher by Jim Burke
The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
I think either would work, although the Burke book I KNOW is focused towards secondary English and I haven't read the Palmer book. I think it's a broader focus. I'd like your input on this one. I'm learning towards the Palmer book, but that's because I've already read Burke. The Palmer book is referred to all over the place in teacher research. Burke might be more of the hands-on approach that many of you have said you'd like, though. We can go with whatever the majority prefers to read. I just need to know what you think. Can you let me know by March 17th?
Thanks!
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I like Letters to a New Teacher. I like the way that it sounds and the format it looks like it is going to take. I am up for anything though.
This board is not allowing us to get emails when someone posts. You would have to make the board public for us to do that. I don't think that would be a problem because noone is going to find it and I don't think we are saying anything really private. I would really like to be able to subscribe to the posts. Otherwise I guess you will have to just send us a message when someone posts.
wow sorry, I was expecting some sort of e-mail response when someone posted. I feel like a jerk for not checking for updates =P
I'm going to vote for the Burke book since all of us in the group are secondary English.
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