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Magazine Articles by Steve Gardiner
This was the view out the door of the tent Steve Gardiner shared with Peter Shelley at Camp II, 17,800 feet, on Mt. Aconcagua.
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection." Anais Nin
Articles on Education
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"I Leave With More Ideas Than I Can Ever Use." Journal of Staff Development, Fall 2000, page 14
Working on the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards committee which was responsible for designing the standards document for English Language Arts teachers gave Gardiner a deeper perspective on professional growth and staff development. In this article, he recommends that school districts take advantage of the experience of National Board Certified Teachers and create staff development activities utilizing their talents.
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"Teaming Up To Integrate Technology into a Writing Lesson." Learning and Leading with Technology, December/January, 2000-01, page 22.
A technology teacher and an English teacher team to create a web site to teach the Six Traits model of writing. This article explains their collaboration and you may see the results at the Six Traits InterActive Web Site.
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"Cybercheating: A New Twist on an Old Problem." Phi Delta Kappan, October 2001, page 172.
Teachers have always had to watch out for plagiarism. Now, with easy access to internet web sites and other technologies, students are finding new ways to take short cuts on classroom assignments.
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"Ten Minutes a Day for Silent Reading." Educational Leadership, October 2001, page 32.
Having used Sustained Silent Reading in his classrooms for 27 years, Steve Gardiner used action research to find out how SSR helped his students improve their reading. He researched dozens of other sources to write this article which became the basis for his book Building Student Literacy Through Sustained Silent Reading.
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"A Skill for Life." Educational Leadership, October 2005, page 67.
This article is an update of new research and issues in teaching reading since the article above. It emphasizes the importance of teaching reading for enjoyment, especially in the wake of NCLB and the National Reading Panel report. While it is important to teach students to pass a test, it is more important to teach reading as "A Skill for Life."
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"Read it Forward." Montana Reading Journal, Spring 2003.
In response to the movie "Pay It Forward," a reading teacher designs a program to help students share books they've read and her colleague designs a web site to help all students and faculty "Read It Forward." Click to see the web site.
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“Librarians Provide Strongest Support for Sustained Silent Reading.” Library Media Connection, February, 2007, page 16
When students are choosing many books for independent reading sessions, they need a lot of choices and no one can help them more than qualified, interested school librarians.
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“Silent Reading sets students in 'word mode.'” Communication: Journalism Education Today, Fall 2006, Volume 40, Number 1, page 4
Using SSR at the beginning of journalism classes get staff members thinking in words and sentences and makes the transition to working on articles and layouts easier and more effective.
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“Easy Like a Sunday Morning.” MASCD Journal, September 2006, Volume II, page 8
In an age when testing students for everything permiates our classrooms, teachers who want their students to enjoy reading and become lifelong readers need to give students time to read and enjoy materials which are not tested.
Magazine Articles about Steve Gardiner
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"In Good Company with Teachers" Montana Magazine, September/October 2001, page 30
Writer Jeff Morris interviewed three Montana teachers, including Steve Gardiner, about their attitudes toward teaching and the unique attributes each one brings to the classroom.
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"Cybercheating." NEA Today, November 2004, page 40.
NEA Today writer Mary Ellen Flannery interviewed Gardiner about the methods he uses to prevent students from using technology for cheating.
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“Sustained Silent Reading in the Classroom” Education World, January, 2005, online
Cathy Puett Miller, the Reading Coach, examines SSR and the key points that make a program successful in this online article.