Reinforcing Middle School English

A Guide for Collaborative Design and Improved Student Learning

Contents

  1. How will this book help?

  2. Preface

  3. Step 1 - Reinforce Your Department’s Decisions

  4. 1.1 How to agree on priorities as a team

  5. 1.2 How to communicate in a caring but direct manner

  6. Step 2 - Reinforce the Curriculum

  7. 2.1 How to organise the curriculum by concepts

  8. 2.2 How to select themes that frame concepts

  9. 2.3 How to choose texts that enact the curriculum

  10. Step 3 - Reinforce the Classroom

  11. 3.1 How to plan for teacher-led learning

  12. 3.2 How to provide student-centred possibilities

  13. 3.3 How to support self-regulated learning