This website is designed to accompany the Handbook of Instructional Practices for Literacy Teacher-Educators: Examples and Reflections from the Teaching Lives of Literacy Scholars published by Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.   The handbook is organized by cognate areas within literacy (click to view an annotated Table of Contents for the book).  The authors, who were invited to discuss their approaches to a specific course in each of these areas, teach in a variety of universities, programs, and settings.  Consequently, the contributions encompass a breadth of professional development experiences including graduate and undergraduate preparation, field-based and university-based settings, team taught courses, and course experiences ranging from practicums that continue across an entire year to an intense week-long summer workshop.

In the handbook, authors introduce their syllabi through personal reflections, giving the reader a sense of the theories, prior experiences, and influential authors who have shaped their own thoughts and approaches.  In addition to describing the nature of their students and the program in which the course is taught, many authors also share key issues with which they have grappled over the years while teaching their course.  Others discuss considerations that were relevant during the preparation of this particular syllabus or describe how their syllabus evolved in light of student input.

This on-line resource provides descriptions for each of the chapters in the book.  In addition, some contributors have provided complete or updated syllabi, recommended readings, grading rubrics, and/or sample assignments authors have used in their courses.  The creation of this accompanying website allowed individual authors to furnish a breadth of support information which readers may find beneficial. 

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