Margie Carter,Deb Curtis: The Art of Awareness: How Observation Can Transform Your Teaching

The Art of Awareness: How Observation Can Transform Your Teaching


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The art of observing children is more than merely the act of watching them--it is also using what you see and hear to craft new opportunities in your classroom. This resource provides a wealth of inspiration and practice. It will help you learn to observe in new ways. You'll witness children's remarkable competencies as they experience childhood, and find new joy in your work with children. This book includesTen study sessions to help you advance your skills and practice observing children from different points of viewStories, photographs, and classroom reflections modeling the ways observation can be used and displayed in your own teachingActivities to help you notice and appreciate what you seeNew ideas and strategies to organize your observations, share them with colleagues and families, and apply them to planning and assessment processesEmphasis on cultural awareness, observing through an objective lens, and using technology as an observation tool By learning the art and skill of observation, you can change your teaching for the better.Deb Curtis and Margie Carter are popular presenters at early childhood conferences, professional development speakers, and on-site consultants. They have written several books together, including "Learning Together with Young Children" and "Designs for Living and Learning."

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close exploration as did the original charting of the New World--without the mandate for conquest." Author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and other vivid portrayals of black American experience, Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic. Her compelling point is that the central characteristics of American literature--individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell--are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence. Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daring perspective that is sure to alter conventional notions about American literature. She considers Willa Cather and the impact of race on concept and plot; turns to Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville to examine the black force that figures so significantly in the literature of early America; and discusses the implications of the Africanist presence The Art of Awareness: How Observation Can Transform Your Teaching download PDF at the heart of Huckleberry Finn.A final chapter on Ernest Hemingway is a brilliant exposition of the racial subtext that glimmers beneath the surface plots of his fiction. Written with the artistic vision that has earned her a preeminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morri


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Author: Margie Carter,Deb Curtis
Number of Pages: 232 pages
Published Date: 18 Dec 2012
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Publication Country: St Paul, MN, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781605540863
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