Barry Gilmore
Hutchison School
Memphis, TN
www.barrygilmore.com
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I. What choices do we offer already?
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The Research
on Choice
Discussion
and
Questions
The Big Picture:
Macro Choices
Small Steps:
Micro
Choices
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The Culture of
Choice:
Educating for
Democracy
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“higher on standardized tests” (Kohn)
The Research
on Choice
“more likely…to continue working even on
relatively uninteresting tasks” (Kohn)
Students from high schools whose
“essential value was democracy”
outperformed college peers (Irwin)
There are “a plethora of resources on
student preferences” but little research “on
teaching students how to choose” (Dunn)
Stress is inversely related to how much
autonomy and influence teachers have
(Tuetteman)
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What do students read?
1928 (Graves):
1992 (Applebee):
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Nathanial Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
Harper Lee
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
1966 (ETS):
2009 (Wolk):
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Nathaniel Hawthorne
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harper Lee
Harper Lee
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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What do students read?
2010 (Arkansas Study: Students in top 10% of reading achievement)
1. Stephanie Meyer
2. Christopher Paolini
3. Harper Lee
4. Elie Weisel
5. JK Rowling
6. John Steinbeck
7. Ray Bradbury
8. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Within next 10: Khaled Hosseini, Rick Riordan, Dan Brown, Scott
Westerfeld, William Shakespeare
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The Research
on Choice
Discussion
and
Questions
The Big Picture:
Macro Choices
Small Steps:
Micro
Choices
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The Culture of
Choice:
Educating for
Democracy
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Individual reading assignments
Individual writing topics
Technology use
Research methods
Rubric weights and elements
Physical space in classroom
Small Steps:
GroupMicro
assignments
Choices
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The Trouble with Choice
For your summer reading, choose one of the
following:
1. The Song of Roland (anon.)
2. Morte D’Arthur (Mallory)
3. Le Roman de la Rose (Christine de Pisan)
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For your summer reading, choose two of the following:
Peace Like a River
Moby Dick
The Things They Carried
Catcher in the Rye
My Antonia
Age of Innocence
The Bean Trees
Death of a Salesman
Beloved
In Cold Blood
Invisible Man
The Sound and the Fury
The Sun Also Rises
The Handmaid’s Tale
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The Bluest Eye
The Crucible
Summons to Memphis
The Awakening
Herland
Eva Luna
Catch-22
Raisin in the Sun
Confederacy of Dunces
Fences
House of Seven Gables
Walden
Going After Cacciato
The Color Purple
Sacred Hunger
The Joy Luck Club
All the Pretty Horses
Tortilla Curtain
Blood Meridian
The Dispossessed
Bonfire of the Vanities
Caramela
The House of the Spirits
Farewell to Arms
The Unvanquished
East of Eden
The Killer Angels
Our Town
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Why I am writing my paper on the sacrifices people must
make for those they love? I chose to read A Thousand
Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, My Sister’s Keeper,
by Jodi Picoult, and A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen,
because they all have great examples of this theme of
sacrifice; and they are my favorite books I’ve read this
year. Mariam, Anna, and Nora, the main characters in the
stories, could not be more opposite but, each character
submerses you into their life, and you feel what they feel,
want what they want, and are who they are. And, to me,
that is what the best literature is; it’s something that is
so relatable, even if I have never had a sibling with
cancer, grown up in war-ridden Afghanistan, or been in a
marriage of lies.
-10th grade student
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Student Choice
(typical model)
Choice of books
(from a list)
Choice of writing
topics (from 2-3)
Casual student input
regarding deadlines
Choice of elective
courses (within
schedule)
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Student Choice (possible model)
Reading
texts
Writing
topics, genres, format
What we
learn
How we
learn
Activities
use of class time
Deadlines
Why we
due dates and
weights
learn
Rubrics
How type
we
values, criteria,
Syllabi
book lists, class focus
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Investment
Ownership
Interest
Better Product
Motivation
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The Research
on Choice
Discussion
and
Questions
The Big Picture:
Macro Choices
Course Syllabi
Policy and Programming
Course Development and
Small Steps:
The Culture of
Sequencing
Micro
Choice:
Choices
Educating for
Democracy
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Senior Seminar (modeling choice)
Week One
Classes choose course topic
In-class
discussion
Counter-Culture
Literature
Online discussion
Romantic
Group Comedy
discussionand
the Silver Screen
Survey
The Graphic Novel
Teacher proposes book list
Discussion/tweaking
Contracting
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Senior Seminar (modeling choice)
Week One
Classes choose course topic
Weeks 2-9
ReadingClass
and Writing
ReadingChoices
Group Reading
Group Essay Topics
Individual Essay Thesis
Statements
Group Projects
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Senior Seminar (modeling choice)
Week One
Classes choose course topic
Weeks 2-9
Reading and Writing Choices
Weeks 10-18
Participation Choices
Student-led discussion
activities
Individual reading choices
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The Research
on Choice
Discussion
and
Questions
The Big Picture:
Macro Choices
Small Steps:
Micro
Choices
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The Culture of
Choice:
Educating for
Democracy
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Literature, Choice, and Civic
Agency
Democracy and decision-making: Lord of the Flies, One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, An Enemy of the People
When democracy fails--dystopias: 1984, Brave New
World, The Giver
Personal choices: “The Road Not Taken,” To Kill a
Mockingbird
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The Research
on Choice
Discussion
and
Questions
The Big Picture:
Macro Choices
Small Steps:
Micro
Choices
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The Culture of
Choice:
Educating for
Democracy
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Barry Gilmore
Hutchison School
Memphis, TN
www.barrygilmore.com
Choice and Voice
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