Leslie S. Rush – författare

Innovative Approaches to Literacy in Rural Contexts highlights and explicates innovative approaches to literacy that are currently underway in rural Wyoming public schools and provides applications of those approaches to other rural schools and districts. Each chapter addresses the unique rural contexts in which literacy work is being accomplished and describes how the rurality of that context impacts the nature of the project. With insights from teachers, literacy coaches, school principals, curriculum coordinators, and professors, this text explores context-specific case studies of modern literacy innovations in rural settings, their outcomes, the challenges posed by rurality, and the lessons gained from these experiences. The volume then demonstrates how these innovations can be applied to other rural settings and contexts. It combines research-based, theoretical perspectives with practical guidance, all aimed at fostering continuous improvement in literacy within rural public schools.Addressing multiple levels, from individual classrooms to statewide organizations, Innovative Approaches to Literacy in Rural Contexts will be essential reading for literacy and rural education graduate courses.

Innovative Approaches to Literacy in Rural Contexts highlights and explicates innovative approaches to literacy that are currently underway in rural Wyoming public schools and provides applications of those approaches to other rural schools and districts. Each chapter addresses the unique rural contexts in which literacy work is being accomplished and describes how the rurality of that context impacts the nature of the project. With insights from teachers, literacy coaches, school principals, curriculum coordinators, and professors, this text explores context-specific case studies of modern literacy innovations in rural settings, their outcomes, the challenges posed by rurality, and the lessons gained from these experiences. The volume then demonstrates how these innovations can be applied to other rural settings and contexts. It combines research-based, theoretical perspectives with practical guidance, all aimed at fostering continuous improvement in literacy within rural public schools.Addressing multiple levels, from individual classrooms to statewide organizations, Innovative Approaches to Literacy in Rural Contexts will be essential reading for literacy and rural education graduate courses.

Winner of the ELATE Richard A. Meade Award 2018 Identifying key areas of teacher education that cross countries and disciplines, this book provides the first extensive research-based insight into how secondary English teachers are prepared at institutions of higher education in the United States of America (US) since the last major study in 1995. In the two decades since then, English teacher education programs have developed in contextually dependent ways that often have been driven by institutional, economic, social and political considerations.The authors provide an overview of their nationwide study of English teacher educators, which was conducted over a four-year period. They analyze the context under which teacher educators currently prepare pre-service English teachers in the US and support teacher educators in other countries to make comparisons to their own unique historical and cultural settings. The authors also offer a comprehensive evaluation of the content, practices and skills being taught to future teachers of English in university-based teacher preparation programs in the US. The book draws on evidence from a nationwide questionnaire, case studies of teacher educators in their respective programs, course syllabi and focus group interviews to focus on areas of instruction that resonate with teacher educators in countries where English is the dominant language of communication. These areas include:- field experiences- standards and assessment- teaching literacy to integrate reading and writing- working with English language learners to address cultural and linguistic diversity- new technologies in English education