Full Description
Pose, Wobble, Flow presents an exciting, liberatory framework for disrupting the pervasive myth that there is one set of surefire, culturally neutral best practices. In this new edition, the authors update and expand their pedagogical model to support lifelong success for teachers of all subject areas and grade levels. Providing six different teaching stances or "poses" that teachers can use to meet the needs of all students, this popular resource offers guidance for teaching and learning in today's challenging sociopolitical climate. The authors describe how teachers can expect to "wobble" as they adapt instruction to the needs of their students, while also incorporating new insights about their own positionality and preconceptions of teaching. Readers are encouraged to recognize this flexibility as a positive process or "flow" that can be used to address challenges and adopt ambitious teaching strategies like those depicted in this book. Each chapter highlights a particular pose, describes how to work through common wobbles, incorporates teacher voices, and provides discussion activities for collective teacher inquiry.
Book Features:
A structure for career-long growth for K-12 teachers of all subject areas, including ways to adapt pedagogy from one year to the next.
A process of growing as an educator that questions existing inequities in schooling and society and frames teaching around a commitment to changing them.
Six poses that are standards-aligned, critical, and expand the possibilities of what takes place in school.
Guidelines for creating original poses beyond the scope of the book, discussion questions for courses, and resources for classroom teachers.
Contents
Contents (Tentative)
Foreword
Introduction: What It Means to Pose, Wobble, and Flow
The Pose, Wobble, Flow Framework: What It Is and How to Use It
What Does It Mean to Pose?
What Does It Mean to Wobble?
What Is Flow?
Moving From Pose to Wobble to Flow: Two Examples of a P/W/F Cycle
Working Within the System
Working the System
Looking Ahead
Provocations
Connections1. Leaning Toward Praxis: What It Means to Embrace a Liberatory Pedagogy
Teaching for Liberation
What Do We Mean When We Call For Liberation?
Why Teaching for Liberation Is Non-Negotiable in Today's World
What Does It Look Like to Pose, Wobble, Flow Around Liberatory Pedagogy?: An Example From Our Own Practice
What Does It Look Like to Pose, Wobble, Flow Around Liberatory Pedagogy Within Your Classroom?
What Does It Look Like to Pose, Wobble, Flow Around Liberatory Pedagogy Beyond the Classroom?
Conclusion
Provocations
Connections2. In Praise Of "Not-Knowing": What It Means to Be a Vulnerable Learner
The Pay-Off of Being a Vulnerable Learner
Vulnerable Learning, Vulnerable Teaching
Embracing the Practice of "Bypassing": Challenging Limiting Constraints Through Innovative Curriculum Design
Building Your Stamina for Equity Work and Teaching for Trauma Resiliency
Provocations
Connections3. Literacy as Civic Action: What It Means to Teach for Social Change
Rethinking Civics
Understanding the Why and How of Civics in Every Content Area
Developing Activities and Assignments to Cultivate Students' Critical Consciousness
Establishing a Participatory Culture of Civic Writing
Doing Civics
Addressing Power and Positionality
Tackling Controversy When You Don't Have Tenure
Conclusion
Provocations
Connections4. Embracing Your Inner Writer: What It Means to Teach as a Writer
Assuming the Pose of Teacher as Writer
Establishing a Practice of Writing
Why Assuming a Writer Pose Matters for Educational Equity
Power in Numbers
Conclusion: So, You're a Writer. Now What?
Provocations
Connections5. Rethinking Reading: What It Means to Curate the Curriculum
Defining Text and the Act of Reading Today
What's in Your Bookroom? Teaching Beyond a Fixed Canon
Helping Students Become Curators of Texts Themselves: The Role of Student Choice in Reading
Accessing Critical Texts: Anxiety and Frustration
Reading Passionately
Conclusion
Provocations
Connections6. Classroom Spaces, Cultures, and Possibilities: What It Means to Be a Designer of Learning
Excavating a Space That Is Meaningful for All
Designing for Delight
Technology Mediates Space
Space, Morale, and Morality
Spilling Democratic Possibilities: Culture Beyond the Classroom
Conclusion: Space Is Not the Final Frontier
Provocations
ConnectionsConclusion What Does it Look Like?
Pose/Wobble/Flow as Politics
Striving for the UnattainableReferences
Appendix A. Pose, Wobble, Flow Template and Assignment
The Pose, Wobble, Flow AssignmentAppendix B: Summary of Poses
Appendix C: Pose, Wobble, Flow Template
Index
About the Authors
