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In today's episode, Heinemann author Carol Jago speaks to the resilience she observes in both teachers and students. Our conversation begins with her thoughts on the implications of AI.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

21: Carol's Books: Cohesive Writing: Why Concept is Not Enough | Classics in the Classroom | Papers, Papers, Papers | Literature and Composition | With Rigor for All | Beyond Standards |The Book in Question: Why Reading is in Crisis 1:25 Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid Title Explained 2:40 What Carol knows for sure 2:47 National Writing Project - “Claiming Our Agency in the New Normal” - July 16 Carol's breakout sessions - “The Role of Literature in Troubling Times” NWP Midwest Conference registration link 4:29 Chicago Area Writing Project - August 8-10 (9am-12pm) Contact rwoodard@uic.edu 5:08 Carol processed her questions while teaching by writing - Weekly Education Column for Los Angeles Times 6:01 “Animal in and of itself” No animals were harmed while filming (Amy just adopted two dogs from Paws and they were crying for attention) 6:44 Why Carol is such a voracious reader 7:48 Not just about making a living, it's about making a life 9:41 Carol's childhood reading experience 11:13 Three Step Approach to Reading: Experience, Analysis, Extension | 12:47 Shawn Peters - The Unforgettable Logan Foster 13:53 Antwan Wilson Mouth to Mouth | 14:00 Rebecca Donner - All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days 18:00 The Graphic Novel of George Takei - They Called Us Enemy | 18:54 Carol's epiphany about non-fiction | 19:00 Beth Macy - Dopesick 19:10 Andrea Elliott - Invisible Child | 19:15 Matthew Desmond - Evicted | 19:20 Patrick Radden Keefe - Empire of Pain www.caroljago.com www.amyperras.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aintgonnabenostupid/support

The always-inspiring @CarolJago talks about why there is a reading crisis and what we can do about it. Amazon Affiliate https://amzn.to/3J28nFQ. You can connect with Tan on Twitter at @TanKHuynh and TanKHuynh.com.  You can learn more about my courses at https://tankhuynh.com/courses  

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Writing Matters with Dr. Troy Hicks is a Writable podcast. Learn how to grow great writers at www.writable.com Like and subscribe to Writing Matters on: ∙ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2HcOcaP ∙ Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2XA5wwl ∙ Soundcloud: bit.ly/2SFbrwr ∙ Google Play: https://bit.ly/2SOrUOM ∙ Stitcher: @getwritable Learn more about Dr. Troy Hicks at hickstro.org and follow him on Writing Matters with Dr. Troy Hicks is a Writable podcast. Learn how to grow great writers at www.writable.com Like and subscribe to Writing Matters on Spotify, Itunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher. Learn more about Dr. Troy Hicks at hickstro.org and follow him on Twitter @hickstro Carol Jago, a 32-year teaching veteran and past-president of the National Council of Teachers of English, identifies herself as a reader and writer. An author of 14 books, including her recent The Book in Question: Why and How Reading Is in Crisis (Heinemann, 2018), Carol reflects on her years of teaching, and shares strategies for teaching writing and conferring with writers. In particular, she argues that her goal is to help students develop the habits of mind of good writers. “If my teaching results in 36 young writers depending on me,” she believes, “I haven’t done my job.” In this episode, recorded in January 2018, she describes ways in which we can help students interrogate their own texts, as writers, and how to approach writing conferences. Our goal is to send students a message that “you can do this.” As a teacher writer, she also articulates the challenging aspects of the writing process, noting that framing writing as fun is not a strong approach. We know that writing is difficult, and so, too, our students know this. But, as a writer, she argues that “I love having written.” She also talks about the work of Maryanne Wolf and her book, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (Harper, 2018), and the need for teaching students noth “either/or,” but “and/both” when it comes to literacy practices. Additionally, she shares her appreciation for the National Writing Project, a network of hundreds of sites and thousands of teachers that support high-quality professional development related to writing instruction. For more on Carol’s work, visit her website (www.caroljago.com) and follow her on Twitter: @CarolJago ‏ ************************************************************************ Join the Writable community: ∙ Twitter: https://twitter.com/getwritable ∙ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getwritable ∙ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/writ... ∙ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getwritable ∙ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/getwritable ∙ Medium: https://medium.com/writable

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, what drives us to read?In her latest book, “The Book in Question: Why and How Reading is In Crisis,” author Carol Jago highlights the importance of reading, and what we stand to lose when it is devalued. It doesn’t matter so much, Carol says, what students are reading or why, but that they choose to read at all, and that they are confident in their ability to attempt the text in front of them.Our conversation begins with what it means to choose a good book…

Annemarie speaks with literacy advocate and sage, Carol Jago, about creating communities of readers, disciplinary literacy, the importance of teaching argument, and building robust libraries. We hope you'll agree, you'll concur, that the counsel we received from Carol shall endure.

Former President of The National Council of Teachers of English, Carol Jago, (http://www.caroljago.com/) joins me for a conversation on the state of reading and writing in schools in 2017. Teachers will walk away with practical ideas for improving literacy instruction, leaders and business men and women will get a glimpse into the successes and failures of our children's reading and writing experiences. 1% Better Ideas Worth Sharing: How long a teacher should spend teaching a book  The state of reading in society in 2017 Carol's system for tracking what she reads The value of improvisation in the classroom The mistakes beginning teachers often make What makes a great reading and writing teacher How many students the NCTE recommends each teacher have  Thank you for listening. Please share this with a teacher or parent. --JF 

Starr Sackstein  English and Journalism teacher (World Journalism Preparatory School --  Queens, NY)    January Contest: Win a Copy of Carol Jago's With Rigor for All by emailing me a lesson that worked (email)    Segment I – Background and Inspiration Tell your story. Where are you from and how long have you been teaching? What classes have you taught?  – Starr started at Far Rockaway High School. She obtained certification by teaching in a high-needs district. After the initial feeling-out-process passed, she fell in love with teaching and her students. From there she proceeded to Locust Valley High School, an affluent suburban Long Island district. She thought that was going to be it for her, she would stay there for the rest of her career. But the politics of the district got the better of her. Now she is at World Journalism Preparatory School and has been there since its second year, which has allowed her to grow with the school.  Who has helped you in your journey to become a master teacher? – Starr's high school English teacher opened her room to her as she was doing her observations. Lori Mayo, the teacher-center representative at Far Rockaway, got Starr involved in NCTE and the Writing Project, which helped her how as a teacher.  She is involved with JEA, Journalism Education Association, not just as a member but also as the state director. Her own personal learning network on Twitter has also been immensely valuable.  It is important for other teachers to know that we all have had setbacks in the classroom. Identify an instance in which you struggled as a teacher and explain what you learned from that experience. – Starr tried to do a dinner party after her students finished reading Pride and Prejudice. Everybody was excited about it. Yet, within 15 minutes it was evident that it was not working. Students forgot props and conversations died shortly thereafter. She called everyone to order and order them back to the text as their character. They re-did the lesson on Monday. She came in more prepared as did the students and it turned out much better.  What do you love about the Language Arts? – There are no right answers! Starr doesn't like to talk grades with her students. Learning is about being proved and thinking about how we feel and how we connected with the literature. The Humanities piece of education offers students the opportunities to explore themselves in a lot of ways.  What is one thing that you love about the classroom?  – There is nothing more amazing than stepping into a classroom and feeling obsolete because you have empowered young minds to trust themselves and their voices. Starr enjoys bringing that sense of awe back into their lives… The better she does her job, the less that her students need her. Segment II — Digging into the Teacher Bag of Goodies    What book do you recommend to a developing teacher? -- Dave Burgess' Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator. She really connected with the idea of going outside the box.    What is one thing a teacher can do outside the classroom that can pay off inside the classroom? –Starr is a writer. Her blogging and writing helps her as a teacher. It gives her a practical connection to the struggles of a writer. She has shown her students her writing from college and how much she has crossed out, changed, and edited.  Is there an internet resource that you can recommend which will help teachers grow professionally? –Starr believes that Twitter is all about who you follow and the lists that you create for yourself. #COLchat (Community of Learning) is a way to reach a community beyond your school. Teach 100 has excellent teacher blogs. It is a good idea to read what other teachers are doing and be reflective in your practice.

Jeff Charbonneau  2013 National Teacher of the Year STEM Teacher (Zillah High School --  Zillah, WA)    January Contest: Win a Copy of Carol Jago's With Rigor for All by emailing me a lesson that worked (email)    Segment I – Background and Inspiration Tell your story. Where are you from and how long have you been teaching? What classes have you taught?  – Jeff was the 2013 National Teacher of the Year. He is out of the classroom right now but he will return next year. He teaches at the same high school that he attended, Zillah High School.   Who has helped you in your journey to become a master teacher? – Jeff asks for help about every 30 minutes. Yet, he had two outstanding cooperating teachers during his student teacher experience. They had completely different styles, one was traditional the other was affectionate and loving. Both were outstanding educators and what he learned was that you need to be true to yourself.  It is important for other teachers to know that we all have had setbacks in the classroom. Identify an instance in which you struggled as a teacher and explain what you learned from that experience. – It seems like that sums up every day of teaching in his career. One experience  that stands out was when he had a fish tank while teaching biology. They had trouble stabilizing the tank. And after being absent one day, he returned to see that the fish were dead. The tank had been smelling and in his absence one student thought it was wise to pour perfume into the fish tank. The worse thing he could have done was to yell at the student. No learning would come of that. Instead, he tries to stop and think about what is going on in their brains first before he reacts. What role does literacy play in the science classroom? – It plays a huge part. One colleague taught a Sci-Fi Literature class. Jeff has jealous at first but then realized that he could create similar experiences too, he just needed to find ways to make science come alive. For example, when teaching atomic theory he can have students read Neils Bohr. His students read a play entitled Copenhagen, about the 1941 meeting of physicists Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. What is one thing that you love about the classroom?  – Jeff loves being there at the moment of discovery. Students will work with difficult material and all of a sudden students will scream "I GET IT!!! I GET IT!!!" He thoroughly enjoys those moments that open their eyes.  Segment II — Digging into the Teacher Bag of Goodies    What book do you recommend to a developing teacher? -- ParkerPalmer's The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life, 10th Anniversary Edition was a book that inspired him as an undergrad. A more recent book is Dave Burgess' Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator. He also recommends 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, which he used in a leadership class with students.   What is one thing a teacher can do outside the classroom that can pay off inside the classroom? –2 ways: 1. Place yourself where the students are. Get them to see you not just as a teacher. Let them see you working for their benefit of them. Go to the sporting events, be at the dances, stay after school. 2. Be a life-long learner. Be involved in your craft and show your students that you are watching the Discovery Channel or staying current in the latest science news.  Is there an internet resource that you can recommend which will help teachers grow professionally? –Jeff has looked into Twitter in the past year to further his professional development. He participates in education chats like #ntchat (new teacher chat). What he likes about Twitter is that it connects you with people. Make Magazine is another place that he goes to for ...

Larry Ferlazzo  English and Social Studies Teacher (Luther Burbank HS -- Sacramento, CA),    January Contest: Win a Copy of Carol Jago's With Rigor for All by emailing me a lesson that worked (email)    Segment I – Background and Inspiration Tell your story. Where are you from and how long have you been teaching? What classes have you taught?  – Larry teaches at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California… Sacramento's largest inner-city high school. He has taught there for 10 years. Prior to that he spent 19 years of his life as a community organizer.  Who has helped you in your journey to become a master teacher? – Larry finds inspiration from experienced teachers, especially Kate Hull a colleague and author. Her patience and understanding have been an inspiration to him. It is important for other teachers to know that we all have had setbacks in the classroom. Identify an instance in which you struggled as a teacher and explain what you learned from that experience. – He has had his fair share of lessons that have fallen flat… and even gone worse. One clear reason has been a lack of preparation and a failure to model appropriately.   Why teach English and the Language Arts? – He has found success is agitating his students to think about how and why they should learn the elements of English or Social Studies.  What is one thing that you love about the classroom?  – Larry loves that every day is different and the challenges and potential gifts are also different. He believes that if you are relational as a teacher, the next day is always a fresh start. Students will forget the bad lesson but they will not forget if you treat then badly or disrespectfully.    Segment II — Digging into the Teacher Bag of Goodies    What book do you recommend to a developing teacher? -- A critical book for teachers to read is Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink. So many teachers focus on extrinsic motivation to the detriment to them and their students. That motivation will be effective on tasks that require no higher-order thinking skills. Instead, we have to help students get in touch with their intrinsic drive because extrinsic factors just won't cut it.  What is one thing a teacher can do outside the classroom that can pay off inside the classroom?  –2 ways: 1. Being connected to other educators through social media. PLN is a personal learning network, and there are so many educators around the world willing to offer their experience and expertise. 2. Making home visits to family. It is something that his district does to connect with parents, families, and kids to develop the relationships than are necessary to success.     Is there an internet resource that you can recommend which will help teachers grow professionally? –Be less site focused and more person focused. Find people that are reputable and worth following. Yet, if you want to follow sites, Edutopia and Education Week are two websites that he recommends.   What can a teacher can do to make students better writers?  – Larry believes that modeling is critical. The other thing is to scaffold with graphic organizers. Finally, take the time to listen to student experiences and students stories. Update the cannon. What new work should be included in the school curriculum? -- For a book, his students have always had a great response to Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis Rodriguez. For Social Studies, two things: 1. Students have to identify an alternate history to an important event. 2. Students first identify what qualities of a neighborhood are important to them. Then they take a tour of the wealthy neighborhood in Sacremento and then the one around the school and realize that the qualities that they listed are right...

Tim Averill HS English Teacher (Waring School, MA), AP Community Moderator, St. Johnsbury Summer Academy Facilitator   January Contest: Win a Copy of Carol Jago's With Rigor for All by emailing me a lesson that worked (email)    Segment I – Background and Inspiration Tell your story. Where are you from and how long have you been teaching? What classes have you taught?  – Tim has taught for 44 years at Manchester Essex RHS and, most recently, The Waring School. He grew up in Topeka, KS went to Kansas University, where he obtained a French and English degree, and then Harvard for graduate school. He worked at Manchester from 1971-2005, where he also coached Debate.  The Waring School is a bi-lingual school where all students learn French and travel to France.  Who has helped you in your journey to become a master teacher? – He believes that example is a great teacher because he had great professors at Kansas University who inspired him. While in Springfield, Harvard had assigned him a master teacher to work with him and that was of great benefit. At Manchester, a couple of colleagues took him under their wing and helped him develop as a teacher. A supportive spouse is also helpful to be there for you when you have good days and bad days.  It is important for other teachers to know that we all have had setbacks in the classroom. Identify an instance in which you struggled as a teacher and explain what you learned from that experience. – Tim has had plenty of examples where he thought something would go well and it didn't. While in Springfield, some kids from another school came over unannounced to visit. Tim relied on his students to tell them that they were not welcome and his students did not side with him. It was an unsetting for him, yet his colleagues reminded him that his students are not going to side with a rookie teacher when there are friends are around. He reminded us that when a lesson goes wrong, we often have the tendency to believe that the failure is a reflection on us,  when it can be a reflection of the material.  Why teach English and the Language Arts? – It is a way for students to know themselves. The purpose of education is for students to get to know themselves, yet Tim believes we are far too career-oriented in education right now.  Too frequently we are teaching them that their value in society is based on what they can produce and consume.   What is one thing that you love about the classroom?  – Taking students to debate and seeing their joy of discovery when they feel empowered. His job as a teacher is to be less and less important as the year goes on because they've gained the confidence to think independently.  Segment II — Digging into the Teacher Bag of Goodies    What book do you recommend to a developing teacher? -- This may date him as a teacher but Death at Early Age by Jonathan Kozol and Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman.  What is one thing a teacher can do outside the classroom that can pay off inside the classroom?  – Participate as much as possible in the culture of the kids. Be at the basketball games, chaperone the dances, volunteer for after-school activities.     Is there an internet resource that you can recommend which will help teachers grow professionally? – The AP Community. It has 8,775 members. Every teacher can join the community. What can a teacher can do to make students better writers?  – Have students publish their work. Publishing can be as simple as having them read it aloud or enter it into a contest but it makes an assignment exist beyond the teacher and beyond a grade.  Update the cannon. What new work should be included in the school curriculum? --  A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving is a novel that he was overjoyed to see on recent AP exams.

Sarah Brown Wessling HS English Teacher, 2010 National Teacher of the Year, Host -- Teaching Channel (Johnston, Iowa)   January Contest: Win a Copy of Carol Jago's With Rigor for All by emailing me a lesson that worked (email)    Segment I – Background and Inspiration Tell your story. Where are you from and how long have you been teaching? What classes have you taught?  – Sarah comes from a family of teachers and initially wanted to be a teacher and principal. Yet, she started university as a broadcast journalism major, then switched around from philosophy to psychology until she had an epiphany and realized that she could do all of those things if she were in the classroom. She turned right around and head to the education department.  Who has helped you in your journey to become a master teacher? – Sarah has had supportive professors and other teachers that have given her guidance, but it is an accumulation of a lot of factors. She conveyed the importance of experiences, whether it be going through National Board Certification or scoring AP exams that facilitated her growth.  It is important for other teachers to know that we all have had setbacks in the classroom. Identify an instance in which you struggled as a teacher and explain what you learned from that experience. – She has had so many but the best-documented example was a lesson for the Teaching Channel, How a Lesson PLan Can Fail. In it you see her thinking out loud, talking through how she was going to correct a lesson that was not going well. Sarah spoke that we will all have similar experiences, and rather than blame external factors that are beyond ourselves, we have to be accountable for what we can be accountable for... and ultimately that is ourselves. Why teach English and the Language Arts? – Language is absolutely crucial. It is the way we communicate as humans. Without an understanding of stories, we become more isolated. ELA goes beyond literature it is reading, and writing, and speaking. In a more universal way we need to realize that the Humanities are not dead. Stories are at the heart of the strong arguments currently being written by Malcolm Gladwell and Atul Gawande in the New Yorker.   What is one thing that you love about the classroom?  – There are so many things that she loves, such as the unpredictability. Yet most of all, she loves watching them become autonomous. It is always a sign of their growth and independence. The other part that she loves is the questions that students bring to the classroom.     Segment II — Digging into the Teacher Bag of Goodies    What book do you recommend to a developing teacher? -- Lots of books, yet books speak to different people at different times. She often turns to Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life. It has been an important compass because it encourages thinking about who we are as teachers and what the work requires.    What is one thing a teacher can do outside the classroom that can pay off inside the classroom?  – Being a parent. It changed her as a teacher. While it didn't change her instructional strategies, it shifted her understanding of the dynamic of home and school and it also shifted what it was like to want the world for someone. She better understood how to pay attention to kids,individually, because that is what she wants for her child.    Is there an internet resource that you can recommend which will help teachers grow professionally? – Certainly the Teaching Channel. She sees so much value in its videos because we can learn from high-quality instruction. Edutopia, Read Write Think, National Board, NCTE are others. The resources have become an extension, or house, her professional community.  It is about the community, mores than the resources,

James Cross English Teacher -- Lakewood High School/ Director of AP Oxford Academy    Segment I – Background and Inspiration Tell your story. Where are you from and how long have you been teaching? What classes have you taught?  – This is his 40th year in the classroom. He was hired over the telephone in 1974... sight unseen at St. John Bosco High School. At Bosco he was allowed to grow professionally, becoming the department chair. He left there is 2000 because he wanted to stay in the classroom and not become principal. He is now at Lakewood High School, where he also coaches soccer, which he has done since he began teaching. Through it all, the students have allowed him to endure and prevent teacher burnout.  Who has helped you in your journey to become a master teacher? – He was taught by great teachers himself. His  5th grade teacher -- Sister Patricia -- was an early influence. She had 47 students in the class and had a handle on everything. He went to a Franciscan brother high school who were always ready, always prepared. Another professor, Bill Leary, advocated for the teacher being the authority over the text. We as teachers should be authorities over all facets of the text. Finally, his wife, Debbie, during his first year, compelled him to teach and treat everyone in the classroom as if they were your nieces and nephews.  It is important for other teachers to know that we all have had setbacks in the classroom. Identify an instance in which you struggled as a teacher and explain what you learned from that experience.   – A young man, who was not doing well in class, went over to the window, said "I had enough" and jumped out. Thankfully, the busses were there, and Jim just turned to the class and said, "well, I guess I have one less paper to grade." A way to avoid a lot of pitfalls of a failed lesson is being well prepared and having back ups ready to go.  Why teach English and the language arts? – Teaching allows us to save civilization one desk at a time and language gives us more of an identity that the information in our wallets. Fitzgerald said "a writer who is anything, must be a mirror of what going on in the world" and literature allows us to see the artistic perspective on the times.    What is one thing that you love about the classroom?  –  Jim loves its spontaneity  He is teaching Heart of Darkness right now and there are four different versions of the text that is being taught with each class period.     Segment II — Digging into the Teacher Bag of Goodies    What book do you recommend to a developing teacher? -- Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal, 10th Anniversary Edition. It advocates for the sacredness of the classroom. Palmer peaks of not only the courage to teach, but also the fear of a teacher going into the classroom is a natural fear, but one that can be harnessed into a positive force of energy. Papers, Papers, Papers: An English Teacher's Survival Guide and With Rigor for All, Second Edition: Meeting Common Core Standards for Reading Literature by Carol Jago are also recommended. The latter argues that all students deserve to be exposed to worthy work of literature. He uses Jago as his text for curriculum development with his teaching-candidatestudents at Cal-State Long Beach.   What is one thing a teacher can do outside the classroom that can pay off inside the classroom?  – Being well prepared is an important step one can do outside the classroom. He also uses coaching to make connections with students outside of the classroom. Beyond that, Jim believes that we must not neglect to take care of, and plan for ourselves (family, recreation, health, etc).   Is there an internet resource that you can recommend which will help teachers grow professionally? –  Education Week, NCTE,

 Carol Jago  Nov. 18, 2013    Segment I – Background and Inspiration    Tell your story. Where are you from and how long have you been teaching?  What classes have you taught?   -- She started student teaching, which turned into her first job because the master  teacher called in sick and never returned. That turned into a 32-year career teaching     middle and high school English in Santa Monica, California. She had the same desk for  27 years.   Who has helped you in your journey to become a master teacher? -- Bill Clawson, 20 years her senior, took her under his wing. While he was different in size -- 6'3", 250 pounds -- and style it was the approach that he shared with her. It was the daily conversations of reflective practice that really made the difference. This is something she discusses in her book, With Rigor for All, Second Edition: Meeting Common Core Standards for Reading Literature   It is important for other teachers to know that we all have had setbacks in the classroom. Identify an instance in which you struggled as a teacher and explain what you learned from that experience. -- A  student threatened to throw the desk out the window. Yet, she had a community of teachers around her that cared that not only would she survive, she would thrive. In 32 years she never sent a kid to the office, she did not want to give up authority. Carol believes that when you turn a student over to a higher power, you give up authority, you give up control.   Why teach English and the language arts? -- Why teach anything else? Get paid to read Hamlet? It is the most wonderful life in the world. Like Stephen Greenblatt, she believes that literature is the most astonishing technological means human beings have discovered to convey experience. Her job was to bring those means to students. She wants literature to open up like a flower for students. Her goal was for students to see how they can be readers too. If you believe it very strongly and you can convey it with enthusiasm, students will come a long way with you.   What is one thing that you love about the classroom? --  The discussion that take a direction that is never planned but is about the text and when the period ends, she knows more than she did before. The lucky aspect of teaching is that we become learners.   Segment II -- Digging into the Teacher Bag of Goodies   What book do you recommend to a developing teacher? -- Papers, Papers, Papers: An English Teacher's Survival Guide It is about handling the paper load. Teachers are not copy editors there to correct every error. She offers other approaches to responding to student work. Give them one thing to think about.   What is one thing a teacher can do outside the classroom that can pay off inside the classroom? -- Roll with your strengths. It is critically important to cultivate one's own interest. Carol uses visual art all the time in the classroom. Her friend uses sports metaphors to explain difficult concepts to kids. It makes the classroom experience richer.    Is there an internet resource that you can recommend which will help teachers grow professionally? -- Twitter. NCTE. Edsitement. Poetry Foundation   What can a teacher can do to make students better writers? -- Have students put a slash mark at every end punctuation. It will allow students to see their sentence variety, which is an important element in effective writing.   What novel or poem do you love to teach and why? -- Crime and Punishment. She taught the first 100 pages and then assigned the rest over break.  The post TWT #1 Carol Jago appeared first on Talks with Teachers.

A top expert on reading joins us, UCLA professor Dr Carol Jago, former president of NCTE