List of Activities & Lessons
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 Getting to Know You
Chapter 2 Starting with Seeing Similarities
Chapter 3 Becoming Part of the Puzzle
Chapter 4 Collaboration & Interdependency
Chapter 5 Everyone’s an Expert: Valuing Diversity
Chapter 6 Making Every Day Multicultural Day: Studying & Valuing
All Cultures
Chapter 7 Holidays in the Curriculum
Chapter 8 Reading for Respect
Chapter 9 Ending the Year with a Focus on Respect
Appendix A Reproducible Multicultural Activity Sheets –
Cinderella
Appendix B Book Club Issue Response Journal Pages
Appendix C List of Activities and Lessons
References
Lesley Roessing was a middle school teacher for over twenty years. She is author of The Write to Read: Response Journals That Increase Comprehension. Ms. Roessing now teaches pre-service middle-level teachers in the College of Education at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, and works with teachers in all grade levels and content areas in her role as director of the Coastal Savannah Writing Project.
Truly a book embracing the 21st century learner which is focused on
the STUDENT! In No More 'Us' and 'Them', teachers are provided
strategies to hook students to become responsible for their own
learning. A must read for every middle school teacher.
*Sharon S. Sand, chief academic officer, Savannah-Chatham County
Public Schools*
We have a lot to learn from our students and each other. Lesley
Roessing shares her story that illustrates just how much you can
discover through the power of collaboration. This book is a vehicle
to share ideas and proven successful strategies. Just like our
classrooms, our professional community 'is built cumulatively, one
activity at a time.'
*Lee Ann Wentzel, superintendent of schools, Ridley School
District, Folsom, PA*
At the core of teaching and learning is a meaningful relationship
between teachers and students. This new generation of learners
requires special cultivation, purposeful dialogue, and relevant
exposure. In No More 'Us' and 'Them,' Lesley Roessing does a
masterful job of laying the foundation for teachers to use the
stories in her book to inspire their own creativity in their
classrooms to capture, inspire, and teach students who are unlike
any generation before them. An easy read, with a powerful message
of collaboration at its best, every teacher should read this book.
It will motivate even the mediocre teacher to feel empowered to
give more, listen more, and, more importantly, deliver more.
*Stephen G. Peters, best-selling author of " Do You Know Enough
About Me To Teach Me" and "Teaching to Capture and Inspire All
Learners"*
The research and literature is very clear that effective middle
level schools create a personalized school environment by building
connections with their students—and where better to start this
endeavor than in the classroom? Roessing’s book not only
shares the importance of building relationships between and among
students, but gives practical, engaging strategies and activities
that will appeal to young adolescents and help them learn to
accept, value and respect both themselves and others.
*Patti Kinney, associate director, Middle Level Services, National
Association of Secondary School Principals, and 2006 president,
Association for Middle Level Education (formerly National Middle
School Association)*
During a time of Common Core Standards and a 'teaching-to-the-test'
mentality, Roessing reminds us that we have affective reasons to
teach as well—the next generation must learn to respect and value
differences or the world may actually cease to exist.
Likewise, in a time when literature is being replaced by
'reading,' Roessing gives us a text that articulately shows why
literature is important and how it should be used across the
curriculum....This text puts the heart back into teaching.
*Joan F. Kaywell, professor of English education, University of
South Florida; senior executive director, Florida Council of
Teachers of English, 2010-2011; membership secretary, Assembly on
Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of
English; and author of Dear Author: Letters…*
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