LEARNING ABOUT ADOLESCENTS FROM TEACHERS WHO TEACH THEM WELL 
Anna Richert • Mills College, Oakland, CA • Adolescent Development

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Studying the websites: The Four-step course assignment


Once we had some experience studying the Claire and Marsha in action we began studying a set of three additional Quest websites:  Yvonne Hutchinson, Vanessa Brown, JoAnn DaLuzI assigned the students according to their subject areas so that the English student teachers studied Yvonne’s site, social studies - Vanessa, math - JoAnn’s, and science more of Claire’s. Overall the project involved the students studying their assigned websites first alone and then with a peer study partners. My goal was for students to learn about the adolescent learners in these different subject matter contexts.  I reasoned they could learn about the learners by watching them in action and by watching their teachers teach them.  By reasoning backwards from the teachers’ pedagogical actions I hoped students would begin to hypothesize as to the teachers’ “knowledge of the learners” that may have prompted those actions. 


The Four-Step Assignment
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Step I
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