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

PP #1

Words have power.

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

PP #2

Stories matter.

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

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop

of the student.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

www.joanwink.com/scheditems/redwoods.pdf

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PP #3

Noise is good.

1970s – Mommy

So, what pedagogical principle did I learn during the 70s?

I dropped out…

PP #4

Silence is bad.

1980s – Ms. Winkie

The Benson Kids & the U of A

The best decade

Free to teach and learn

The new research was thrilling

Bilingual Home

Literacy transfers

Energy Technology (credit_

Idea Generator

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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1991

• Revisiting an evil state far, far away…

• Gender-quake

2000s

Dr. Wink morphed back to Joanie.

Love trumps methods.

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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2006

Cancer

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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affirm identity extend language activate priorknowledge

scaffold meaning

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?”

Stick together.

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

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