Educating Literacy Teachers Online
Tools, Techniques, and Transformations
Lane W Clarke author Susan Watts-Taffe author Donna E Alvermann editor Celia Genishi editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Teachers' College Press
Published:3rd Jan '14
Should be back in stock very soon

This book is a comprehensive guide for literacy teacher educators and professional development trainers who teach and work in online settings. The authors provide tools, techniques, and resources for developing courses, workshops, and other online learning experiences, including blended/hybrid delivery formats that combine face-to-face meetings with online practices. Moving away from traditional discussions in which technology and delivery systems dominate the conversation, this book focuses on the literacy instructor with techniques for building effective learning communities. The authors outline the unique pedagogical challenges posed by online courses and offer guidance for making decisions about what tools to use for specific instructional purposes. More than simply a “how-to” book, this resource will encourage novice and experienced instructors to extend their thinking and enable online literacy teacher education to grow in productive ways.
Book Features:
- Support for those teaching in many different roles, including program coordinators, professors, and adjuncts.
- A focus on pedagogical innovation as the key to success, with concrete examples of instructional and assessment practices.
- Connections to the IRA Standards for Reading Professionals and other national standards for teacher education.
- A companion website where online literacy teacher educators can communicate and share resources. <
"This book by Lane Clarke and Susan Watts-Taffe is a very strong testimony from
field actors engaged in promoting new information and communication technologies for the betterment of educational practice. Using bits of their life histories, the authors provide a deep insiders’ look at the business of readying the self for online teaching through a meticulous account of their own introduction of e-teaching the new pedagogical sphere."
—International Review of Education
ISBN: 9780807754962
Dimensions: 229mm x 156mm x 8mm
Weight: 238g
168 pages