A Quick Guide to Making Your Teaching Stick, Grades K5 (Workshop Help Desk) - Softcover

Reseña del editor

Recognizing that there is a vast difference between children getting it and children holding on to what they have learned, Shanna Schwartz lays out the universal principles of "stickiness" and describes how they can be used to tweak your teaching for amore lasting impact on young writers.

Biografía del autor

Shanna Schwartz is the K-2 Senior Lead Staff Developer at TCRWP. In this role, she provides leadership throughout the organization. She pilots performance assessments, mentors junior staff and graduate students, advances work at mentor schools, leads the Project's distance learning project for K-2 teachers, and supports study groups for principals, assistant principals, and literacy coaches. Shanna has years of experience developing both reading and writing curricula at TCRWP and with schools across the country and around the world. She is never happier than when she is thinking about books with children and then studying that thinking with educators.

Lucy Calkins is the author of the best-selling grade-by-grade Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grades K-8 and Units of Study in Opinion/Argument, Information, and Narrative Writing, Grades K-8 series, which have quickly become an indispensable part of classroom life in tens of thousands of schools around the world, the new Up the Ladder: Accessing Grades 3-6 Units in Narrative, Information, and Opinion Writing series, and classroom essentials such as the groundbreaking TCRWP Classroom Libraries and the Workshop Help Desk series. Lucy is also the author or coauthor of numerous foundational professional texts with Heinemann, including The Art of Teaching Writing, Writing Pathways: Performance Assessments and Learning Progressions, Grades K-8, Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement, and One to One: The Art of Conferring with Young Writers. She is also the author of The Art of Teaching Reading. In her role as the Founding Director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, a New York City - based organization that has influenced literacy instruction around the globe for more than thirty years, Lucy has developed a learning community of brilliant and dedicated teacher educators who have supported hundreds of thousands of teachers, principals, superintendents, and policy-makers in schools that bear their distinctive mark: a combination of joy and rigor in the classrooms, and entire school communities - teachers, principals, parents, kids - who wear a love of reading and writing on their sleeves. Lucy is the Robinson Professor of Children's Literature at Teachers College, Columbia University where she co-directs the Literacy Specialist Program - a masters and doctoral program that brings brilliant teachers and coaches to TCRWP schools everywhere and to the Project itself. She and her husband John are the parents of two sons, Miles and Evan.