Teaching ELA for CHANGE
Thursday, August 28 | 7:00 p.m. ET
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This event is free for all NCTE members. Not yet a member? Join today!
Registration will close 90 minutes prior to the event’s start time.
NCTE’s Secondary Section invites members to join Secondary Section Steering Committee member Dan Stockwell for this special webinar. Dan will share findings from his qualitative research study to encourage secondary preservice and inservice teachers to provide critical literacy pedagogy as they teach ELA and use their instruction to support students in reading and writing the world. The session will provide specific examples of ways teachers can implement critical literacy pedagogy in their teaching and provide strategies for addressing concerns about parental or administrative pushback and backlash.
Members will
- Identify key characteristics of critical literacy pedagogy and consider ways it can be implemented in ELA,
- Receive strategies they can use to address the inevitable tensions and challenges they will face when providing critical literacy pedagogy,
- Begin planning a lesson they can use, and
- Discuss potential tensions or doubts they have and collectively consider how they can respond to these tensions so they can continue implementing critical literacy pedagogy, even in restrictive contexts.
Please contact profdev@ncte.org with questions.
FEATURED GUEST
Dan Stockwell taught high school English language arts (ELA) in South Carolina for eight years and is now an assistant professor in the Department of English at California State University, Bakersfield, where he teaches courses for students studying to become secondary ELA teachers. His research focuses on how secondary ELA teachers can provide critical literacy pedagogy, even in restrictive contexts.