English Education - Volume 38, Issue 3, 2006

In the often contentious debate over the state of American education, there is considerable agreement, supported by research, that teacher quality is a critical factor in student learning.

This qualitative study focuses on ten graduate students in an English education master;’s program, who were enrolled in a course that I taught on teaching literature in the secondary school.

Literature often has been considered a quick and easy way to bring multicultural perspectives into the ELA classroom. Yet for effectual change, significant shifts in pedagogy prove more powerful than surface additions. In this article we focus on how a college of education’s multicultural mission statement intersects with one teacher’s life story.

Book Walk: Works That Move Our Teaching Forward: Exploring Texts That Engage Students and Teachers in Poetry English Education, Vol. 38, No. 3, April 2006 Five preservice teachers each review a book on teaching poetry, a book they had previously presented to their peers as part of a literature circle.