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Peter H. Johnston

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Peter H. Johnston (PhD, University of Illinois) is a professor of education and chair of the Reading Department at the University at Albany/SUNY. His position as an advocate for teachers and children developed from his early career, teaching primary school in his native New Zealand. He is a näytä lisää recipient of the Albert J. Harris Award for his contribution to the understanding of reading disability, and in 2005 he was elected to the Reading Hall of Fame. Peter is the author of Choice Words: Flow Our Language Affects Children's Learning. His continuing interest is in education as it relates to a democratic society. näytä vähemmän

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In this relatively slim volume, Johnston includes a wealth of ideas and techniques for teaching literacy and language skills in a more just, compassionate and socially responsible manner. He focuses on dialogic instruction—specifically on the language we use when we speak to and with students—and the value of using a dynamic learning frame that emphasizes every student’s ability to learn, grow, and develop not only cognitively and intellectually but also emotionally and socially.

Johnston is interested in far more than “just teaching.” He believes that teachers have a responsibility for helping their students mature into responsible and concerned citizens who are equipped with the academic, social, and emotional skills to effect real change in the world.

This book will benefit anyone interested in social justice education—that is to say, anyone who is interested in meaningful education.
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jimrgill | Dec 5, 2015 |
Choice words was a selection for our professional book club. It focuses on the way teachers interact with students and argues that the language teachers choose impacts students' development as learners and people. It was an interesting read and gave me good food for thought.
 
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ewyatt | 1 muu arvostelu | May 7, 2007 |
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In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach children skills: they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Teachers create intellectual environments that produce not only technically competent students, but also caring, secure, actively literate human beings.

Choice Words shows how teachers accomplish this using their most powerful teaching tool: language. Throughout, Peter Johnston provides examples of apparently ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language that are pivotal in the orchestration of the classroom. Grounded in a study by accomplished literacy teachers, the book demonstrates how the things we say (and don't say) have surprising consequences for what children learn and for who they become as literate people. Through language, children learn how to become strategic thinkers, not merely learning the literacy strategies. In addition, Johnston examines the complex learning that teachers produce in classrooms that is hard to name and thus is not recognized by tests, by policy-makers, by the general public, and often by teachers themselves, yet is vitally important.

This book will be enlightening for any teacher who wishes to be more conscious of the many ways their language helps children acquire literacy skills and view the world, their peers, and themselves in new ways.
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