This essay examines the use of dialogue journals in English classrooms. It is an attempt to synthesise the knowledge contained in texts about dialogue journal writing. After a brief discussion of the literature in the area of journaling, the first section of the essay attempts to synthesise the k...

For schools to become foundations of social justice, educators need to promote and practice what Ladson-Billings calls cultural relevant pedagogy. The three essential components of a cultural relevant pedagogy include academic achievement, cultural competence, and social-political consciousness. Edu...

Whole classroom How did you learn to speak? Did you learn sitting at a desk, carefully memorizing a standard formula of how to produce sounds? Or did you learn to do so by unselfconsciously producing sound, without worrying about every single syllable? This suggests that the best way to teach l...

Relating mathematics to students' everyday lives will be a goal for me as a teacher. With the research that I have read and through my own struggle with math, I feel that children need to make connections between the real world and mathematical concepts, so that mathematics becomes relevant to them...

If I Were In Charge For me, the term "educated" means to be well rounded not only in the necessary scholarly subjects such as Math, English, History/Geography, and the Sciences, but in the problems that can face us in every-day life. "To be educated" isn't just a phrase t...