Choice Words 

Read Free Chapter on How Language Affects Learning

Good teachers do more than teach children skills. They build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Teachers create environments that produce technically competent students, but also caring, secure, actively literate human beings.

Choice Words (Stenhouse 2004) shows how teachers accomplish this using their most powerful teaching tool: language. Throughout, Peter Johnston provides examples of how ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language are pivotal in the conducting classroom.

Read a free chapter of the book, "The Language of Influence in Teaching," on the Stenhouse Web site.