Books for Spring 2018

You may share, borrow, or rent these texts or check them out from a library, but I beg you not to do that. These will be the foundational texts for your professional teaching library. All of them are extremely practical, and I promise you will return to them over and over. I’ve chosen earlier editions where I could so you can get very inexpensive used editions. If money is tight, maybe ask friends and relatives for early holiday or birthday presents? A few of the required texts will be ones you have already purchased for previous courses in this program, so be very careful not to buy the same book twice! I haven't heard anything about the text or texts for the reading course. I'll let you know when I do.  Capstone There are no new books for this course, but you'll be using the books you already have, especially the ones from summer.

ELA Pedagogy course

In the Middle by Nancie Atwell (Make sure you get the 3rd Edition -  978-0325028132) I know this one is expensive, but this new edition is very different from the previous editions, and it is the best book on English education ever written. Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension by Jeffery Wilhelm. Try to get the first edition if you can. There are lots of them for a penny + $4 shipping. Image Grammar by Harry Noden. Make sure to get the 2011/second edition. Looks like you can get those for $27 with shipping on Amazon, but there are some used editions. But the used editions seem to be expensive enough that maybe you should just buy a new one, and then you know for sure you have the DVD that goes with it. ·       Get it Done!: Writing and Analyzing Informational Texts to Make Things Happen, by Jeffrey D Wilhelm, Michael Smith, and James Fredricksen. This one is a little pricey used, but not too bad used – 18-20$ with shipping. ·       Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements by Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm – Lots of used one for 10$ with shipping, but not terribly expensive used. ·       Reading, Writing, and Rising Up by Linda Christensen. Looks like about $20 used or $24 new. Choose one YA Novel from the following: If you are teaching middle school this Spring, get… ·       Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye (Lexile = 850) If you are teaching high school this Spring, get… ·       The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta (Lexile = 1050) Art Pedagogy Course ·      Social Justice Art: A Framework for Activist Art Pedagogy by Marit Dewhurst  ·      Engaging learners through art making, by Douglas and Jaquith ·      Assessment in Art Education, by Donna Kay Beattie ·      The Art Teacher’s Survival Guide for Secondary Schools, by Helen D. Hume OR Early Childhood Art, by Herberholz and Hanson (depending on what level of art you are most interested in teaching) World Languages Pedagogy Course ·      Doing Task Based Teaching by Willis and Willis. This will be our primary text, so I recommend getting a fresh new one you can mark up as you see fit.  ·      Activities, Games, and Assessment Strategies for the Foreign Language Classroom, 1st Edition by Amy Buttner – 9781596670648 (or the second edition is also fine. They don’t seem too different.) ·      Collections of Performance Tasks & Rubrics: Foreign Languages, by Deborah Blaz - 9781930556065