The Reading Room
Welcome to the Pedagogical Development Reading Room. Currently, we are in the process of transitioning to Moodle-based document and file dissemination. Faculty members should log in to the CCDS Moodle site and to their respective pedagogy strands for access to readings and necessary files. Additionally, all of the sharing of implementations will be done via Moodle forums. Please see Greg Martin for help with accessing the site.
Visitors are welcome to peruse a list of our readings in order to see what our faculty is examining as we explore this year's pedagogical growth and development topics.
2009-10 Readings and Themes:
Teaching to Varied Learning Styles
A few chapters from Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong
Teaching to Varied Learning Styles Special Focus: Game-Based Learning
James Paul Gee's "Good Learning"
Creativity and a Lifelong Love of Learning
Selections from Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future.
George Kembel's Chautauqua Lecture: "Awakening Creativity: Activating a Latent Human Capacity to Innovate our Way Forward." (Available on ForaTV)
Excerpts from Sparks of Genius by Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein.
enVision Math Curriculum Implementation
The entire Lower School faculty will be focusing the attention on the practical implementation of a new mathematics curriculum. As such, their pre-workshop reading and reflection will be to study Pearson's implementation guide and watch professional development videos supplied by the publisher. Both are replete with mathematics and pedagogical theory.
2008-9 Readings and Themes:
Readings
for the Leary or Interested
Creativity Reading (required)
Assessment Readings (required and
optional)
Learning Styles Readings
(required and optional)
Skill-Building Readings (required
and optional)
Character Development
Readings (required and optional)
Readings for the Leary or Interested
"Honing the Fundamentals" by Jenifer Fox
Pre-Workshop Packet (required)
Please read Grant Wiggins'
Understanding by Design
chapter 7 and
a
portion of chapter 5 of Integrating Differentiated Instruction
and UbD by McTighe and Tomlinson's.
Pre-Workshop Packet (required for those in
round #2)
Wiggins' chapter 8 and
the
second portion of the McTighe chapter.)
Creativity and a Lifelong Love of Learning
"The Creative Mind" excerpt from Howard Gardner's Five Minds for the Future and the introduction to Wynton Marsalis's Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life.
Excerpts from Sparks of Genius by
Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein.
Observing,
imaging,
abstracting,
recognizing
patterns, forming
patterns, analogizing,
body thinking,
empathizing,
dimensional
thinking, modeling,
playing,
transforming, and
synthesizing.
Remember that if you enjoy your excerpt and would like a copy of the
book (or want to borrow mine), don't hesitate to ask!
Pre-Workshop Packet (required)
A few chapters from
Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong.
Pre-Workshop Material Choices (required
for those in round #2)
Read "Introduction" and "Ways of Learning" from Mel Levine's
A Mind at a Time
OR listen to Levine's lecture "Helping
a Mind Become Defined."
Other readings/audio:
"In a
Nutshell" from Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice"
by Howard Gardner. A summary of the theoretical foundations of
Gardner's sense of multiple intelligences.
"Mind Aligned" lecture by Mel Levine.
"Mind at a Time" lecture by Mel Levine.
Pre-Workshop Packet (required)
Please read
chapter 3 from Grant Wiggins' Understanding by Design,
recognizing that the text addresses both big ideas and core skills
together. (And for the darker side of skill-building, consider Elizabeth
Bishop's poem
One Art.)
Pre-Workshop Listening (required for
those in round #2)
Levine's lecture "Helping
a Mind Become Defined."
Character Development Readings
Pre-Workshop Packet (required)
A few excerpts from Harvard's ex-Dean, Harry Lewis's
Excellence without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education
and Thomas Lickona's
Educating for
Character.
Pre-Workshop Packet (required for those
in round #2)
Rudyard Kipling's poem "If," and
Mel Levine's "Conducting
a Mind" from One Mind at a Time.
Other readings/resources:
Teaching Tolerance: A fabulous website dedicated to, well, teaching
tolerance throughout the curriculum. Search for curriculum ideas by
discipline, grade level, and tolerance concept. The Web Exclusives page
has a great and palatable annotated list of additional websites.
