Collaborations
Meeting New Goals, New Realities
Editor
June K. Phillips (Weber State University)
Eileen W. Glisan, Chair 1997
In memoriam, A. Ronald Walton, 1943-1996
Lincolnwood, Illinois: National Textbook Company, 1997 (PB 35 N65
1997)
2005-07-09
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Collaborations: Meeting the new
goals, new realities <June K. Phillips> xi
Professional standards that challenge xi
Collaborations to develop effective classroom practices and to reform
curriculum xiii
Cases of collaboration in the Reports
xiv
Reflections from Outside the Collaborations xvii
Professional collaboration: A perspective from the mathematics
standards <Mary Montgomery Lindquist and Linda P. Rosen> 1
The NCTM Standards and
associated activities 2
The Standards and their
development 2
Main messages of the Standards 4
Awareness activities 5
Professional development activities 8
Connecting activities 9
Monitoring activities 10
Future activities 11
Lesosns learned: Change and challenges 11
Lesson 1: Ownrship and openness 12
Lesson 2: Dialog and digestion 13
Lesosn 3: Coherence and comprehensiveness 14
Lesson 4: Partners and professional help 15
Lesson 5: Assessing and adjusting 17
The teacher's voice: A view from a national standards pilot site
<Kathleen M. Riordan and Rita A. Oleksak> 21
Pilot site selection process 22
The Springfield, Massachusetts, pilot site 23
Demographics 23
Teacher participants 24
The project focus 24
Findings form the field 25
Springfield: One year later 28
Reflections on the National Standards Pilot Site
processes 28
Conclusion 29
Communication goal: Meaning making through a whole language approach
<Bonnie Adair-Hauck and Philomena Cumo-Johanssen> 35
The need to explore other cognitive and psychological models for
guidance 38
A whole language approach to language learning 40
PACE: A model to focus on meaning and form 42
The motivating question: How would this model actually look in
practice? 45
School setting and subjects 46
Data collection 46
Data source 48
Analysis of the data 49
Completing the cycle of PACE 75
A dynamic web of interelated events 76
Phase IV: Extension activities 79
Summary of qualitative analyses 80
Reflection on the goal 84
Personal voice of the teacher 86
Personal vocie of the researcher 87
Voices of the students 88
Future concenrs 89
Dissemination of the project 91
Appendix: Synopses of the stories 95
Addressing the culture goal with authentic video <Ana Maria Schwartz
and Mark S. Kavanaugh> 97
To collaborate: To work together in a joint intellectual effort 97
Overview of the Chapter 98
The cultures goal 98
Teaching culture with the Standards 100
Planning the immigration unit 102
Action research: A reflective cycle 103
Phase One: Identifying and clarifying the problem 104
Research questions 106
Phase Two: Describing and epxlaining the context 107
The setting 107
Phase Three: Constructing and implementing the general plan 108
Phase Four: Evaluating the project 113
Student data 114
Classroom teacher's observations o fproject and activities 127
University faculty member's observations of project and
activities 129
Teacher's reflection on the collaboration 132
What did I learn about myself as a teacher / researcher? 134
What did I learn about myself as an inventor? 134
What changes will I make in my practice as a result of this
project? 135
Conclusions 136
Where do we go from here? 138
Connections: A K-8 / University collaboration to promote
interdisciplinary teaching <Eileen B. Lorenz and Pierre
Verdaguer> 141
Linguistic and cultural comparisons: Middle school African American
students learning Arabic <Zena Moore and Mark Anthony
English> 173
Communities of learners: From New York to Chile <Mari Has and
Margaret Reardon> 213
Reflections on the collaborative projects: Two perspectives, two
professionals <Dale L. Lange and Joseph A. Wieczorek> 243
Video guide to collaborations: Meeting new goals, new realities
273
Northeast Conference Reports 1954-1996 275
Northeast Conference Reports Editors and Authors 1954-1996 287
Northeast Conference Officers and Directors since 1954 295
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