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TESOL 2014, Portland

• A Celebration of 40 Years of Multiculturalism
  Academic Session, Bilingual Education Interest
  Section930 to 1215 Thursday, 3/27/14

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Pedagogical Principles

• That I have learned over a really, really, really
  long time from and with BEIS TESOL

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PP 1

• Words have power.

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So, lets meet that nice Spanish teacher.

• From Joanie Richardson
• to Mrs. Wink
• to Mommy
• to Ms. Winkie
• to Dr. Wink
• to Joanie
• to Dawn Winks mom

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PP 2

• Stories matter.

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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

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Circa 1960s Joanie Richardson

• Collaborative learning learning Socio-cultural
  context
• Dr. Ehrensberger
• Vygotsky
• Shakespeare
• Meaning, not memory
• Dialogue, not silence

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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of
the student. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Retrieved from www.joanwink.com/scheditems/ALER-P
resentation-Part1-Final.pdf
www.joanwink.com/scheditems/redwoods.pdf
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PP 3

• Noise is good.

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1970s Mommy

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

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PP 4

• Silence is bad.

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1980s Ms. Winkie

• The Benson Kids the U of A
• The best decade
• Free to teach and learn
• The new research was thrilling

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Bilingual Home
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Literacy transfers

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Idea Generator
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Pedagogical Principle

• Meaningful
• Purposeful
• Relevant
• Respectful
• These principles are taken from the work of Ken
  and Yetta Goodman of the University of Arizona.

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1990s Dr. Wink

• Out with Freire in with phonemes
• Mandated minutia
• Rigor and Joy
• Patience and courage

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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.

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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.

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Retrieved from www.joanwink.com/scheditems/ALER-P
resentation-Part1-Final.pdf
Wink, 2005, p. 178 www.joanwink.com/scheditem
s/3perspectives.php
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1991

• Revisiting an evil state far, far away
• Gender-quake

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2000s

• Dr. Wink morphed back to Joanie.
• Love trumps methods.

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Charles Dickens

• These are the best of times.
• These are the worst of times.
• Simultaneous and contradictory ideas

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• Human relations are at the heart of schooling.
• Cummins, 2001, as cited in Wink, 2011, p 90.

Retrieved fromwww.joanwink.com/scheditems/CP-How-
do-we-do-it-012412.pdf
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2006

• Cancer

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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).
Retrieved fromwww.joanwink.com/scheditems/CP-How-
do-we-do-it-012412.pdf
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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.
Retrieved fromwww.joanwink.com/scheditems/CP-How-
do-we-do-it-012412.pdf
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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.

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So, how many pedagogical principles?

• Noise is good.
• Silence is bad.
• Off-task is not bad.
• Meaningful, purposeful, relevant, respectful

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2010 What happened to that nice Spanish
teacher?

• Dawn Winks mom
• The Mom of the Mother of All Things
• Dean Winks wife. . .
• Are you Winks Washout?

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Stick together.
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• Education is radically about love.
• Paulo Freire

Retrieved from www.joanwink.com/scheditems/ALER-P
resentation-Part1-Final.pdf
Personal communication, N. Millich, November 3,
1998 cited in Wink, 2005, p. 2
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• Education is radically about love.
• Paulo Freire

Retrieved from www.joanwink.com/scheditems/ALER-P
resentation-Part1-Final.pdf
Personal communication, N. Millich, November 3,
1998 cited in Wink, 2005, p. 2
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Retrieved fromwww.joanwink.com/scheditems/CP-How-
do-we-do-it-012412.pdf