I've been cooking up several projects for the summer, one of which is starting a book club to read and discuss several teaching and education themed books. Here's what I'm thinking:
- We'll cover 2-3 books in July and August, with the possibility of continuing into the school year if people were interested.
- Our discussion can take many forms: guest posts, a virtual meetup, a collaborative blog such as Tumblr, or we can adopt ideas from the Professional Learning Communities model
- This is intended to be a no pressure, interesting, fun thing to do this summer. I wonder myself if doing a book club that's unrelated to teaching and education would be better (and I'm open to that possibility as well).
- One book I'm interested in for our first book is Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh by Gerald Grant. What do you think?
by Gerald Grant. What do you think?
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I'd be interested Mr. D.
I also tagged you on a pro development summer exercise that is making the rounds on the blogs. No big deal if you don't have time for it.
Hope you have a great summer.
I want to read a book on working in groups (like one of Spencer Kagan's) - when do you want to start?
I am probably going to buy a book called Why Students Don't Like School: Link here
This week.
Then next week I have a week of summer institute. So I won't have any time for reading then.
Maybe in August would be the next window that I would have for a new book.
There is a book club starting tomorrow on the book Why Don't Students Like School. It's hosted by Dr. Scott Mcleod at Dangerously Irrelevant. Here is the link: http://www.discussonline.org/castlebc0903/ There's 245 current participants and we'll be blogging and twittering if you want to check it out.
Miss Cal.Q.L8: I'll definitely check out the DI book club for ideas to make mine work. I'm also really interested in that book as well.
Ricochet: If you have a specific book in mind, email me. I'll do some follow up research. Ideally, if enough people are interested, I'd like to start July 1st!
Mr. Duez: I hope you have time to stop by later on--good luck with your institute. I'll look into the summer PD exercise you mentioned.
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