Shelby A Wolf
Biographic Data
| ID | 3829337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelby A Wolf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelby A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolf |
| SIGNATURE | WOLF S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Mysteries of Creative Partnerships
Since 2002, Creative Partnerships, based at the Arts Council of England, has been investing time, energy, and resources to bring artists and schools together. Their goal is to "animate the national curriculum and to enrich school life by making the best use of the United Kingdom's creative wealth." This article concentrates on the partnership between two primary teachers and two dramatic artists as they planned and produced a workshop based on an…
ȀWax On/Wax Offȁ
That Dog Won't Hunt!”
This research presents case studies of four exemplary schools as they worked to meet the demands of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) as well as the system designed to assess results—the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS). We argue that the teachers' responses to large-scale reform efforts exist in a larger web of connection and are dependent on their collaborative and consistently positive stance toward learning as …
That Dog Won't Hunt
This research presents case studies of four exemplary schools as they worked to meet the demands of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) as well as the system designed to assess results—the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS). We argue that the teachers' responses to large-scale reform efforts exist in a larger web of connection and are dependent on their collaborative and consistently positive stance toward learning as …
The Right to Write
Questions whether authors can authentically represent a culture of which they are not a part. Considers what kind of shifts will occur in preservice teachers’ understandings of the “right to write.” Finds that as preservice teachers learn more about the current debate through class readings and discussions, they move from straightforward statements to hesitations over the hard issues raised
The Flight of Reading
S This study follows an ethnically diverse, third‐ and fourth‐grade urban classroom of school‐labeled remedial readers as they moved from their daily instruction in round robin reading to the construction of a classroom theatre in which they interpreted and performed literary text. Unlike most studies of drama in the classroom, here I focus more on the shifts in decoding and comprehension than on literary interpretation, arguing that this is an a…
New writing assessments
1997). New writing assessments: The challenge of changing teachers' beliefs about students as writers. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 36, New Directions in Student Assessment, pp. 220-230
What is this literachurch stuff anyway?”
S In this yearlong study, the authors analyze the effects of using carefully assisted case studies to prepare preservice teachers to be more knowledgeable and skilled in supporting children's response to literature. As a part of a class assignment for an undergraduate course in children's literature, 43 preservice teachers read to and kept careful field notes on individually selected children. Drawing upon their field notes and final papers as we…
What is this literachurch stuff anyway?”
S In this yearlong study, the authors analyze the effects of using carefully assisted case studies to prepare preservice teachers to be more knowledgeable and skilled in supporting children's response to literature. As a part of a class assignment for an undergraduate course in children's literature, 43 preservice teachers read to and kept careful field notes on individually selected children. Drawing upon their field notes and final papers as we…
That Dog Won't Hunt!”
This research presents case studies of four exemplary schools as they worked to meet the demands of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) as well as the system designed to assess results—the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS). We argue that the teachers' responses to large-scale reform efforts exist in a larger web of connection and are dependent on their collaborative and consistently positive stance toward learning as …
ȀWax On/Wax Offȁ
The Flight of Reading
S This study follows an ethnically diverse, third‐ and fourth‐grade urban classroom of school‐labeled remedial readers as they moved from their daily instruction in round robin reading to the construction of a classroom theatre in which they interpreted and performed literary text. Unlike most studies of drama in the classroom, here I focus more on the shifts in decoding and comprehension than on literary interpretation, arguing that this is an a…
What is this literachurch stuff anyway?”
S In this yearlong study, the authors analyze the effects of using carefully assisted case studies to prepare preservice teachers to be more knowledgeable and skilled in supporting children's response to literature. As a part of a class assignment for an undergraduate course in children's literature, 43 preservice teachers read to and kept careful field notes on individually selected children. Drawing upon their field notes and final papers as we…
New writing assessments
1997). New writing assessments: The challenge of changing teachers' beliefs about students as writers. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 36, New Directions in Student Assessment, pp. 220-230
The Flight of Reading
S This study follows an ethnically diverse, third‐ and fourth‐grade urban classroom of school‐labeled remedial readers as they moved from their daily instruction in round robin reading to the construction of a classroom theatre in which they interpreted and performed literary text. Unlike most studies of drama in the classroom, here I focus more on the shifts in decoding and comprehension than on literary interpretation, arguing that this is an a…
The Right to Write
Questions whether authors can authentically represent a culture of which they are not a part. Considers what kind of shifts will occur in preservice teachers’ understandings of the “right to write.” Finds that as preservice teachers learn more about the current debate through class readings and discussions, they move from straightforward statements to hesitations over the hard issues raised
That Dog Won't Hunt!”
This research presents case studies of four exemplary schools as they worked to meet the demands of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) as well as the system designed to assess results—the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS). We argue that the teachers' responses to large-scale reform efforts exist in a larger web of connection and are dependent on their collaborative and consistently positive stance toward learning as …
That Dog Won't Hunt
This research presents case studies of four exemplary schools as they worked to meet the demands of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) as well as the system designed to assess results—the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System (KIRIS). We argue that the teachers' responses to large-scale reform efforts exist in a larger web of connection and are dependent on their collaborative and consistently positive stance toward learning as …
ȀWax On/Wax Offȁ
The Mysteries of Creative Partnerships
Since 2002, Creative Partnerships, based at the Arts Council of England, has been investing time, energy, and resources to bring artists and schools together. Their goal is to "animate the national curriculum and to enrich school life by making the best use of the United Kingdom's creative wealth." This article concentrates on the partnership between two primary teachers and two dramatic artists as they planned and produced a workshop based on an…
Pedagogy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (6 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Education and Technology Integration (2 works)