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Teaching Teens and Reaping Results: Meet Alan Sitomer
How do you get 100% engagement by 100% of your students? Three-time California Teacher of the Year Alan Sitomer does it by engaging students where they are and using that as a springboard for meeting the language arts standards. He describes his philosophy and technique in his new book, Teaching Teens and Reaping Results in a Wi-Fi, Hip-Hop, Where-Has-All-the-Sanity-Gone World: Stories, Strategies, Tools & Tips from a Three-Time Teacher of the Year Award Winner. You can get a taste of his methods in the excerpts, slideshow, and video below.
Source: Scholastic Professional
Articles
How to Reach and Teach Teenagers
Scholastic Professional |
This article explains the dramatic success Alan Sitomer has achieved in reaching teenagers in a Los Angeles high school where he teaches English.
Doin' the Standards-Based Hip-Hop Thing
Scholastic Professional |
In this excerpt, Alan Sitomer outlines some of the strategies that have proved meaningful to his students. Sitomer's approach has helped students become learners, doers and achievers.
Tupac Shakur in Language Arts?
by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Instructor Magazine |
Tupac Shakur in Language Arts? Yes, says one Los Angeles teacher.
Alan Sitomer's 8 Tips for Teachers
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This a list of eight tips for teachers who wish to reach and inspire their students to learn and to succeed.
Resources
Alan Sitomer Video Interview
Teacher of the Year Award Winner Alan Sitomer discusses his philosophy on how to create a successful learning environment from the first day of school to the last by engaging high school students actively in their own learning.
