Presenting Poetry to the Recalcitrant and Suspicious High School Student: The "Search for the Central Experience" Method
In an excerpt from his latest book, Teaching on Solid Ground, Golden Apple President and CEO Dominic Belmonte
guides English teachers step-by-step through his successful method of teaching
poetry. Logic meets humanism and the imagination as students experience a
poem. This model method is a formula for successful teaching.Download the excerpt [PDF] >
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Dominic Belmonte serves the Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching as its President and Chief Executive Officer. A 1987 Golden Apple Award recipient and past chairman of the Golden Apple Academy of Educators, in 1989 he co-created the award-winning Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois program, a pre-induction teacher preparation and mentoring experience which is now the Golden Apple Foundation’s largest program, having brought over 1,000 young people to teaching careers in Illinois. In 1996 he also co-created the respected GATE (Golden Apple Teacher Education) program, an alternative pathway to teacher certification for mid-career adults wishing to teach secondary math or science or elementary school children that brought over 400 adults to teaching careers in Chicago. Dom is the author of three books on teaching: Teaching from the Deep End, Teaching on Solid Ground, and a second edition of teaching from The Deep End, all published by Corwin Press in California. At YorkCommunityHigh School in Elmhurst, where he taught for twenty years, Dom was an English teacher and Chairman of the English Department. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.