Feature Article

Ideas for Use in Staff Development and University Coursework

• Read the currently featured article.
• What is one new thing that you learned from this article?
• What are two questions that you might have regarding the content of this article?

• Read and briefly summarize the current article and its relevance to your classroom.

• Choose one of the articles in the feature article archives that seems most relevant to you.
• How might this article help you? What questions did this article raise for you?
• Find a different article on the same topic and compare the two articles. Do the authors share the same views? Different views?
• Would you recommend this article to a colleague? Why or Why not?

• Use feature article as basis for monthly discussions

• Use the “talk with the author” to initiate dialogue with colleagues from other schools within your district or anywhere (partner book study groups).

• Journal on the feature articles and save to your portfolio.

• Read and briefly summarize the current article and its relevance to your classroom.

• Use feature article and dialogue with the author to initiate a book study

• Use a book study to go deeper into a topic.
• Example: Do the book study on collaboration – Friend and Cook, Bauwens and Hourcade and outline how the site could supplement different components of the book.