"This teacher education textbook will help preservice and beginning teachers to think critically about the impact of rurality on their work by providing a thorough overview of what it means to live, teach, learn, and thrive as educators in a rural community. This book invites the reader to think about teaching in a rural school as an act of social justice, work that can help dismantle spatial barriers to economic, social, and political justice. The first of its kind, this comprehensive textbook for rural teacher education is targeted toward preservice teachers in traditional and alternative teacher preparation programs"--

Teaching in Rural Places

Education & Teaching

Azano, Amy Price

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

This teacher education textbook invites preservice and beginning teachers to think critically about the impact of rurality on their work and provides an overview of what it means to live, teach, learn, and thrive in rural communities. This book underscores the importance of teaching in rural schools as an act of social justice--work that dismantles spatial barriers to economic, social, and political justice.Teaching in Rural Places begins with a foundational section that addresses the importance of thinking about rural education in the U.S. as an educational environment with particular challenges and opportunities. The subsequent chapters address rural teaching within concentric circles of focus--from communities to schools to classrooms. Chapters provide concrete strategies for understanding rural communities, valuing rural ways of being, and teaching in diverse rural schools by addressing topics such as working with families, building professional networks, addressing trauma, teaching in multi-grade classrooms, and planning place-conscious instruction.The first of its kind, this comprehensive textbook for rural teacher education is targeted toward preservice and beginning teachers in traditional and alternative teacher education programs as well as new rural teachers participating in induction and mentoring programs. Teaching in Rural Places will help ensure that rural students have the well-prepared teachers they deserve.

Teaching in Rural Places: Thriving in Classrooms, Schools, and Communities

Brenner, Devon

Downey, Jayne

Eppley, Karen

Schulte, Ann K.

The CLEAR curriculum, developed by University of Virgina's National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, is an evidence-based teaching model that emphasizes Challenge Leading to Engagement, Achievement, and Results. In Fiction and Nonfiction: Language Arts Units for Gifted Students in Grade 4, students will read and analyze short stories and write their own short story in the fiction unit. In the nonfiction unit, students will study nonfiction (and creative nonfiction) texts to examine how writers use many of the same devices to tell nonfiction stories. Students will read a variety of texts and will write their own memoir. These units focus on critical literacy skills including reading diverse content, understanding texts as reflections of culture, and finding bias in fiction and nonfiction.

Fiction and Nonfiction: Language Arts Units for Gifted Students in Grade 4

Callahan, Carolyn

Missett, Tracy

Prufrock Press

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