There were several different occasions for student teachers to study and select classroom rituals and routines from one of the Quest websites and then enact these routines in their practice. Some of these were informal practices that student teachers used in our class together and others were ones they used in more formally planned lessons. First, I asked the student teachers to study Yvonne Hutchinson's secondary literacy website in order to select a practice to guide their discussion of a young adult novel. In the first video clip students discuss the various practices they chose, how they adapted them for an elementary classroom, and whether or not they were useful for this age group. The final speaker is Vinnie who describes a practice--marking up the text--that she used with her own students in an assignment to plan and analyze a literacy lesson. There is a link to her lesson plan and analysis. Also linked are sample reflections from student teachers on this activity. A second way that student teachers chose and enacted practices was through their formal planning, teaching and analysis of their lessons. I asked student teachers to select a classroom ritual or routine from one of the elementary literacy websites: Gill Maimon, Mattie Davis, Amelia Coleman or Jennifer Meyers. The assignment was to select a practice to guide how they enacted their literacy lesson. They could choose a actual routine such as guided reading or a phrase that a teacher use, such as referring to students as "writers" and "authors." I introduced this assignment and writing workshops by showing a video from Gill Maimon's site in which she is talking about memoir writing with her students. The second video records a discussion of the rituals and routines student teachers noticed in the video of Gill's teaching. Towards the end of the clip, Todd talks about how he adapted the way Gill introduced point of view to her students in his own teaching. There is a link to his lesson plan and analysis. There are links to two other lesson plans and analyses to illustrate the range of classrooms rituals and routines students selected.

Selecting & adapting high school practices  In this video, student teachers discuss how they might adapt and use rituals and routines from Yvonne Hutchinson's webiste in their elementary literacy classrooms.

Selecting & adapting elementary practices  To introduce writers'workshop, I showed a video of Gill Maimon's classroom. This clip illustrates how I integrate the websites more informally into my teacher education practice. Following the introduction is a discussion of classroom rituals and routines that students have identified.

Lesson plans & analyses