1st Edition

Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era

By Arthur T. Costigan Copyright 2008
204 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Most pre-service education students are enthusiastic about the progressive, constructivist, and student-centered theory and practice advocated in many teacher education programs and by the National Council of Teachers of English. Yet in actual day-to-day practice, teachers often have trouble thinking of ways in which such student-centered and constructivist practices in literacy instruction can... Read more

@contents:Selected Contents:

Chapter One: Surviving and Thriving in a Test- and Accountability-Driven Culture

Chapter Two: Constructivist Controversies

Chapter Three: Writing Theory and Practice

Chapter Four: Reading Theory and Practice

Chapter Five: Symbolic Assessment and Authentic Assessment

Chapter Six: Aesthetic Education

Chapter Seven: Teaching Social Justice in a Test-Driven Era

Chapter Eight: Teaching Language Arts in a Test Driven Era

Biography

Arthur Costigan is Assistant Professor of Education at Queens College, City University of New York. A former New York City high school teacher, his research interest is the ways in which new teachers become socialized into the profession. With Margaret Crocco he has co-authored, Learning to Teach in an Age of Accountability.