TESOL 2014, Portland
A Celebration of 40 Years of Multiculturalism: Academic Session, Bilingual Education Interest Section
9:30 to 12:15 Thursday, 3/27/14
Pedagogical Principles
That I have learned over a really, really, really
long time from and with BEIS & TESOL
So, let’s meet that nice Spanish teacher.
From Joanie Richardson
to Mrs. Wink
to Mommy
to Ms. Winkie
to Dr. Wink
to Joanie
to Dawn Wink’s mom
The Power of the Narrative
The human brain favors stories or the narrative form as a primary means of organizing and relating human experience. Stories contain large amounts of valuable information even when the storyteller forgets or invents new details.
~Silko, The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir
Circa 1960s – Joanie Richardson
Collaborative learning & learning Socio-cultural context
Dr. Ehrensberger
Vygotsky
Shakespeare
Meaning, not memory
Dialogue, not silence
www.joanwink.com/scheditems/redwoods.pdf
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1980s – Ms. Winkie
The Benson Kids & the U of A
The best decade
Free to teach and learn
The new research was thrilling
Pedagogical Principle
• Meaningful• Purposeful• Relevant• Respectful
These principles are taken from the work of Ken and Yetta Goodman of the University of Arizona.
1990s – Dr. Wink
• Out with Freire; in with phonemes
• Mandated minutia
• Rigor and Joy
• Patience and courage
Robert Frost was right.
• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both…
• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
• I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
But, what does the public think?
• The more, the better.
• The sooner, the better.
• The faster, the better.
• The harder, the better.
• The louder, the better.
Wink, 2005, p. 178 www.joanwink.com/scheditems/3perspectives.php
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Charles Dickens
• These are the best of times.
• These are the worst of times.
• Simultaneous and contradictory ideas
Human relations are at the heart of schooling.
Cummins, 2001, as cited in Wink, 2011, p 90.
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Cummins, J. (2009) Transformative multiliteracies pedagogy: School-based strategies for closing the achievement gap. Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 11(2), 38-56. Used with permission, Wink, J. (2011).
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Cummins, J. (2009) Transformative multiliteracies pedagogy: School-based strategies for closing the achievement gap. Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 11(2), 38-56. Used with permission, Wink, J. (2011) p. 190.
Scaffold Meaning
Extend Language
Activate Prior Knowledge /
Build Background Knowledge
Affirm Identity
Literacy Engagement
↨Literacy
Achievement
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Stop. Stare. Scribble. Share.
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So, how many pedagogical principles?
• Words have power.
• Collaborative learning in a complex social cultural context is good.
• Stories matter.
So, how many pedagogical principles?
• Noise is good.
• Silence is bad.
• Off-task is not bad.
• Meaningful, purposeful, relevant, respectful
2010 – What happened to that nice
Spanish teacher?
• Dawn Wink’s mom
• The Mom of the Mother of All Things
• Dean Wink’s wife. . .
• “Are you Wink’s Washout?”
Education is radically about love.
~ Paulo Freire
Personal communication, N. Millich, November 3, 1998; cited in Wink, 2005, p. 2
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Education is radically about love.
~ Paulo Freire
Personal communication, N. Millich, November 3, 1998; cited in Wink, 2005, p. 2
Retrieved from
: ww
w.joanw
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s/ALE
R-P
resentation-Part1-F
inal.pdf