by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo | May 26, 2011 | Blog
In my last post, I laid out a simple process for getting students familiar with your textbook before you ask them to use it. In a way, we can think of that process as the foundational “pre-reading” strategy that goes global, not specific to one piece of...
by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo | Mar 15, 2011 | Blog
In my last post, I talked about the ways in which teachers can better engage students in active reading of the textbook in their classrom – those during reading strategies that promote interaction between student and text, and help to build habits of thinking...
by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo | Oct 15, 2010 | Blog
In my last post, I put my cards on the table about informational reading. I think we have had far too many distractions for far too long about the lack of reading skills that justify lecture, and don’t get me started on photocopying and handing out teacher...
by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo | Aug 14, 2010 | Blog
Textbooks used to be the mainstay of instructional resources in the classroom. One of the greatest struggles teachers had was asking students to read the textbook, answer the questions, and be able to remember anything they had read. This frustration led to wide...
by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo | Aug 10, 2010 | Blog
Teachers view themselves as actioners, people who implement things and actions to have influence on and impact their clients, students. Those of us who teach focus our efforts on the doing of teaching, the interactions that take place in our classrooms everyday, the...
