TESOL 2014, Portland
A Celebration of 40 Years of
Multiculturalism: Academic Session,
Bilingual Education Interest Section
9:30 to 12:15
Thursday, 3/27/14
Pedagogical Principles
That I have learned over
a really, really, really
long time from and with
BEIS & TESOL
PP #1
Words have
power.
So, let’s meet that nice
Spanish teacher.
From Joanie Richardson
to Mrs. Wink
to Mommy
to Ms. Winkie
to Dr. Wink
to Joanie
to Dawn Wink’s mom
PP #2
Stories matter.
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
Circa 1960s –
Joanie Richardson
Collaborative learning & learning
Socio-cultural context
Dr. Ehrensberger
Vygotsky
Shakespeare
Meaning, not memory
Dialogue, not silence
Conversation is the
laboratory and workshop
of the student.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Retrieved from: www.joanwink.com/scheditems/ALER-Presentation-Part1-Final.pdf
www.joanwink.com/scheditems/redwoods.pdf
PP #3
Noise is good.
1970s – Mommy
So, what pedagogical
principle did I learn during
the 70s?
I dropped out…
PP #4
Silence is bad.
1980s – Ms. Winkie
The Benson Kids & the U of A
The best decade
Free to teach and learn
The new research was thrilling
Bilingual Home
Literacy transfers
Energy
Technology
Idea Generator
Pedagogical Principle
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Meaningful
Purposeful
Relevant
Respectful
These principles are taken from the work of Ken
and Yetta Goodman of the University of Arizona.
1990s – Dr. Wink
• Out with Freire; in with
phonemes
• Mandated minutia
• Rigor and Joy
• Patience and courage
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.
But, what does the
public think?
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The more, the better.
The sooner, the better.
The faster, the better.
The harder, the better.
The louder, the better.
Retrieved from: www.joanwink.com/scheditems/ALER-Presentation-Part1-Final.pdf
www.joanwink.com/scheditems/3perspectives.php
Wink, 2005, p. 178
1991
• Revisiting an evil state
far, far away…
• Gender-quake
2000s
Dr. Wink morphed back to
Joanie.
Love trumps methods.
Charles Dickens
• These are the best of times.
• These are the worst of times.
• Simultaneous and
contradictory ideas
Human relations are at the
heart of schooling.
Cummins, 2001, as cited in Wink, 2011, p 90.
Retrieved from:www.joanwink.com/scheditems/CP-How-do-we-do-it-012412.pdf
2006
Cancer
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 from:www.joanwink.com/scheditems/CP-How-do-we-do-it-012412.pdf
Activate Prior
Knowledge /
Build
Background
Knowledge
Scaffold
Meaning
Literacy
Engagement
↨
Literacy
Achievement
Extend
Language
Affirm
Identity
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 from:www.joanwink.com/scheditems/CP-How-do-we-do-it-012412.pdf
scaffold meaning
affirm identity
extend language
activate prior
knowledge
Stop. Stare. Scribble. Share.
Stop
Stare
Scribble
Share
So, how many
pedagogical principles?
• Words have power.
• Collaborative learning in a
complex social cultural
context is good.
• Stories matter.
So, how many
pedagogical principles?
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Noise is good.
Silence is bad.
Off-task is not bad.
Meaningful, purposeful,
relevant, respectful
2010 – What happened
to that nice
Spanish teacher?
• Dawn Wink’s mom
• The Mom of the Mother of All
Things
• Dean Wink’s wife. . .
• “Are you Wink’s Washout?”
Stick together.
Retrieved from: www.joanwink.com/scheditems/ALER-Presentation-Part1-Final.pdf
Education is radically
about love.
~ Paulo Freire
Personal communication, N. Millich, November 3, 1998; cited in
Wink, 2005, p. 2
Retrieved from: www.joanwink.com/scheditems/ALER-Presentation-Part1-Final.pdf
Education is radically
about love.
~ Paulo Freire
Personal communication, N. Millich, November 3, 1998; cited in
Wink, 2005, p. 2
Retrieved from:www.joanwink.com/scheditems/CP-How-do-we-do-it-012412.pdf