Beschreibung:
Why Workshop? offers English and Language Arts teachers in grades 7 through 12 sound advice on using writing and reading workshops as the primary organization of their classrooms. The book's nine essays are written by experienced teachers who are making their teaching work day by day. In the process they give a good mix of testimonials (Here's how I did...), specific methods (Here are the steps...), and real-life results (This worked well; this flopped...). Their stories aren't too seamless, their successes too easy, their students and their work unbelievably good--rather, these teachers, their courses, and their students represent the range of possibilities in middle and high schools from college preparatory to vocational, from the compliant to the difficult.