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Title: A Book Club for High School Teachers


1
A Book Club for High School Teachers
  • What was I Thinking?

2
The Beginning
  • AASL in Pittsburgh Teacher Book Clubs A Tool
    For Collaboration
  • Amber Tongate (Tates Creek)
  • Oprah phenomenon
  • Invite your teachers to join and emphasize
    eating out (Remember where we are located)

3
Share your Objectives
Identify high quality YA fiction Increase a
teachers ability to recommend titles to
students Encourage teachers to use YA fiction in
their classrooms Recognize the current/popular
trends in YA fiction Build collaborative
relationships Offer great, outstanding, high
quality PD
4
Your Personal Goals
  • To increase collaboration
  • To encourage teachers to read young adult books
  • To create a sense of urgency
  • To get my staff out of our negative mode and
    learn how to enjoy school, reading, and one
    another

5
Participants
  • Open the club to everyone include classified
    staff
  • Retired teachers
  • Substitute teachers
  • Central Office
  • College Students

6
Requirements
  • Read the book
  • Fill out a reflection sheet
  • Participate in the discussion
  • Meetings last 1.5 hours PD credit earned is 1.5
    hours

7
Books
  • Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
  • Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
  • Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
  • Feed by M.T. Anderson
  • Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You by Dorian
    Cirrone

8
  • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  • The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
  • Cut by Patricia McCormick
  • Crank by Ellen Hopkins
  • Daniel Half-Human and the Good Nazi by David
    Chotjewitz
  • Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
  • ?

9
Activities including Reading Strategies
  • Teen Pop Quiz www.voya.com
  • Anticipation Guide See your handout
  • Personal Interest Survey Available on the
    Internet
  • Author Web Sites Discussion questions
  • Author Blogs
  • Articles (Why should young adults read Holocaust
    literature, anyway?)

10
  • Using Picture Books with High School students
    The Cats of Krazinski Square
  • Shared Jim Treleases Read Aloud Handbook and an
    article entitled, Change the Literacy Depression
    in your school Read Teens a Story!
  • Discussion Survey - Speaking Volumes How to Get
    Students Discussing Books and Much More by Barry
    Gilmore.
  • Collection tie-ins Books/DVDs on Bullying
    (Nineteen Minutes)

11
Teen Pop Quiz from Voya
  • pop_culture_quiz

12
Documentation
  • Agendas and Attendance Sheets
  • Reflection Sheets
  • Handouts
  • PR Posters
  • Book Discussion Guides (teachers have asked for
    these)
  • Pretty much everything

13
Unbelievable Results
  • Teachers discussing books everywhere
  • Students waiting for our meetings to end so they
    can check out the books
  • Teachers booktalking for other teachers
  • Teachers using some of the strategies and
    learning new ones
  • Teachers getting to know one another KTIP Time
  • The male teachers participating like they have
    (huge surprise)
  • And the teachers cant believe how much I read

14
Helpful Hints
  • You must keep things moving
  • You need a very opinionated member
  • You need a best friend to join to keep you
    grounded and from going crazy
  • You need to recognize these people
  • And selecting the right book is so stressful so
    be prepared

15
Goals for Next Year
  • Attended NECC in Atlanta and I am sooo behind
  • Try and start a teacher book club blog in the
    hopes they will try to use blogs in their
    classroom (please keep me in your prayers)
  • Purchase an iPod and try to learn how to download
    e-books (as well as everything else).
  • Have the book club read a Bluegrass book
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