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books by Brenda Miller Power

books:

Living the Questions: A Guide for Teacher-Researchers

3 reviews
Ruth Hubbard, Brenda Miller Power, ...

Stenhouse Publishers, 1999

Living the Questions: A Guide for Teacher Researchers
This book is full of valuable information, concise, and easy to read.

Language Development: A Reader for Teachers (2nd Edition)

1 review
Brenda Miller Power, Ruth S. Hubbard

Prentice Hall, 2001

A essential tool for teachers.
This is a book designed to take teachers into the domains of linguists and anthropologists. A series of essays, this volume provides a compilation of information garnered by researchers in these fields. The realm of this reader examines how language is developed in children and changes over time, and how we use it to communicate and learn. The text is organized into three parts: Historical ...

Oops: What We Learn When Our Teaching Fails

2 reviews

Stenhouse Publishers, 1996

Learning From Our Mistakes
As a beginning teacher, I am constantly learning and trying to better my craft and art of teaching. There are numerous books describing what one should do to create the perfect lesson plan, how to keep the classroom managed, and how to create a wonderful learning environment. These things are all good and well, but to be honest many of them are quite unhelpful. They seem to be written by ...

Literacy in Process: The Heinemann Reader (Heinemann/Cassell Language & Literacy)
Ruth Shagoury Hubbard, Brenda Miller Power

Heinemann, 1991

Here are essays, research reports, interviews, and extracts from books by writers whose work has done so much to change the process of education and to redirect classroom practices toward child-centered teaching. Literacy in Process is designed as a text for undergraduate courses and workshops in language arts teaching methods. Unlike traditional methods books, it explores a variety of points of view while offering students both theoretical ...

Taking Note: Improving Your Observational Notetaking (Stenhouse in Practice Books)
Brenda Miller Power

Stenhouse Publishers, 1996

The Art of Classroom Inquiry: A Handbook for Teacher-Researchers

8 reviews
Ruth Shagoury Hubbard, Brenda Miller Power

Heinemann, 2003

again
I bought this book last semester for a grad course. I have to confess that I hardly read it but it was useful and intersting (the little I read).Sold it. This semester I am taking a research class and have to finish my paper by may 29. My research teacher suggested that I buy this bok to help me with certain issues. Gosh, buying it again. This time I am keeping it for good. other classmates ...

We Want to Be Known: Learning from Adolescent Girls

Stenhouse Publishers, 1998

Reading Stephen King: Issues of Censorship, Student Choice, and Popular Literature

1 review

National Council of Teachers of English, 1997

Excellent Resource for Teachers!
This book, a collection of essays and transcripts of speeches that stemmed from a writing conference, is loaded with great ideas and is a comprehensive resource. The essays address pedagogical issues surrounding censorship and student choice in the classroom, but also include very practical information like ideas for activities, discussions of different popular novels for adolescents, and ...