Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative

Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative
ISBN-10
0393714381
ISBN-13
9780393714388
Category
Education
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2020-11-17
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Authors
Cathy Fleischer, Antero Garcia

Description

What counts as professionalism for teachers today? Once, teachers who knew their content area and knew how to teach it were respected as professionals. Now there is an additional type of competency required: in addition to content and pedagogical knowledge, educators need advocacy skills. In this groundbreaking collection, literacy educators describe how they are redefining what it means to be a teaching professional. Teachers share how they are trying to change the conversation surrounding literacy and literacy instruction by explaining to colleagues, administrators, parents, and community members why they teach in particular research-based ways, so often contradicted by mandated curricula and standardized assessments. Teacher educators also share how they are introducing an advocacy approach to preservice and practicing teachers, helping prepare teachers for this new professionalism. Both groups practice what the authors call “everyday advocacy”: the day-to-day actions teachers are taking to change the public narrative surrounding schools, teachers, and learning.

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