Ever feel like the odds are against you and that you'll never overcome your problems? Sally Nitz, once felt that way. The victim of a twelve year battle with delusions, paranoia, and psychotic episodes, Sally learned the hard way that taking things step by step is the only way to overcome mental illness. After seemingly unending episodes in the hospital, which resulted in the loss of her beloved teaching career, Sally had hit bottom and despaired of ever having the semblance of a normal life. But slowly she learned not just to recover, but to thrive. Finding faith and a heart for others suffering like her, Sally embarked on a career as a hospital chaplain and discovered the joys of ministering to others. Through this experience she is able to help those like her, and bravely tells her story here for all the world. Her testimony to God's powers of healing and deliverance shine through and will help anyone find the worth in being A Work in Progress.
This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school biology, chemistry and physics. It builds a compatible alignment of multiple representation and representation construction approaches to science pedagogy with the social semiotic, systemic functional linguistic-based approaches to explicit teaching of disciplinary literacy. The early part of the book explicates the transdisciplinary negotiated theoretical underpinning of the MDL framework, followed by the research-informed repertoire of learning experiences that are then articulated into a comprehensive framework of options for the planning of classroom work. Practical adoption and adaptation of the framework in biology, chemistry and physics classrooms are detailed in separate chapters. The latter chapters indicate the impact of the collaborative research on teachers' professional learning and students’ multimodal disciplinary literacy engagement, concluding with proposals for accommodating emerging developments in MDL in an ever-changing digital communication world. The MDL framework is designed to enable teachers to develop all students' disciplinary literacy competencies. This book will be of interest to researchers, teacher educators and postgraduate students in the field of science education. It will also have appeal to those in literacy education and social semiotics. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Ever feel like the odds are against you and that you'll never overcome your problems? Sally Nitz, once felt that way. The victim of a twelve year battle with delusions, paranoia, and psychotic episodes, Sally learned the hard way that taking things step by step is the only way to overcome mental illness. After seemingly unending episodes in the hospital, which resulted in the loss of her beloved teaching career, Sally had hit bottom and despaired of ever having the semblance of a normal life. But slowly she learned not just to recover, but to thrive. Finding faith and a heart for others suffering like her, Sally embarked on a career as a hospital chaplain and discovered the joys of ministering to others. Through this experience she is able to help those like her, and bravely tells her story here for all the world. Her testimony to God's powers of healing and deliverance shine through and will help anyone find the worth in being A Work in Progress.
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