Hi fellow teachers! My name is Mel and I am a middle school English teacher. I read a lot of young adult novels. My favorite genres are mystery and historical fiction. I am currently reading the GONE series as well as The Mortal Instruments. I highly recommend both! I am also taking a class on implementing reading and writing workshop. Any tips or advice on implementing the workshop model would be greatly appreciated.
I don't have any suggestions for an English, but I do have a few suggestions for pedagogy. I would highly recommend that every teacher read John Dewey's Moral Principles in Education. I also find Rethinking Our Classrooms by Rethinking Schools to be a brilliant compilation.
I am also taking a class on reading and writing workshop for teaching my middle school English classes. I just finished reading WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead. A little too predictable for me but I think my 6th graders would like it. My daughter read IF I STAY and said the writing was good even though the storyline was not her taste - she is 15. I checked out NOTEBOOK KNOW-HOW by Aimee Buckner from the library today. Looking forward to reading that.
I'm a student teacher, desiring to teach Social Studies at the Middle School level. My undergraduate training was in History. I foresee infusing the discussion of literature into my classes.
I highly value Reading and learned when I was four. My father taught me!
Today, I volunteered at the local public library to mentor adults to read, in preparation for pursuing a G.E.D.
You could say I have a passion for teaching and for reading!
I've been able to use lots of books that I've discovered thanks to rings on bookcrossing - for example, I did an EFL course with 13-15 year olds on the theme of self-image, while reading Uglies by Scott Westerfeld... the students enjoyed that a great deal... Right now I'm reading the Young Reader's version of Three Cups of Tea with a class - the controversy blew up after I had ordered the books, so the theme has been changed to "Heroes??"
