[MOSAIC] Student teacher question/immature students

[Carolyn Booth]

I am very interested in purchasing the book you've mentioned in your  
reply, Teaching Struggling Readers: How to Use Brain-Based Research  
to Maximize Learning; will it help a middle school teacher as well?

Thank you!

Carolyn Booth
7th-grade LA/SS/PE/Health
Pine Lake Middle School
Sammamish, WA


On Jul 30, 2007, at 2:37 PM, gohorns1976-school at yahoo.com wrote:

> One thing I have learned as a Reading Recovery teacher (for 10  
> years; 31 years total teaching experience) is that when the kids  
> don't learn, it's not because they are immature or lazy or  
> disinterested or anything else that is their fault.  So, when I've  
> got a child who is not being successful---then I know I better  
> start doing some hard looking at what I have been doing with this  
> child.  From personal experience, I can tell you it can be hard to  
> make this shift in thinking as a teacher.  (I hope this doesn't  
> sound tacky because I don't mean it that way!)
>
>   Carol Lyons (I think her title is now professor emeritus at Ohio  
> State and she was/is a long-time Reading Recovery teacher leader  
> trainer) has written an excellent book for classroom teachers  
> dealing with this.  It's called Teaching Struggling Readers:  How  
> to Use Brain-Based Research to Maximize Learning.
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