Talks With Teachers

Penny Kittle is an English teacher, literacy coach, and director of new teacher mentoring at Kennett High School in North Conway, New Hampshire. She teaches 10th, 11th, and 12th graders each fall and also occasionally in the alternative night school for adult students. Penny is also currently the National Council of Teachers of English Policy Analyst for the State of New Hampshire. You can follow her at www.pennykittle.net In this episode you will learn: Penny's travels as a teacher and educator in various states throughout the country Her time as a woodcarving teacher What it takes to be a good coach in sports and how that is transferrable to coaching teachers The impact Donald Graves had on her teaching The importance of teachers existing as writers Mini lessons are most efficient and least effective and conferring is least efficient yet most effective. How to turn dependent learners into independent thinkers What type of feedback matters to students The two books that are fascinating her right now