PAM BREWER

A North Carolina native, Pam Brewer is a 14-year veteran high school teacher of English, journalism, and drama. For the past 10 years, Pam has served as Assistant Principal for Instruction at Person High School in Roxboro, North Carolina. She is a Meredith College graduate and holds a masters degree in English from North Carolina State University and principal’s certification from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has trained district staff in implementing the effective schools process, learning styles research, Socratic Seminar, as well as leading the school’s successful restructuring movement to a 4/4 block schedule in 1993. With Mrs. Ball, she coauthored the Socratic Seminar chapter in Canady and Rettig’s Teaching in the Block: Strategies for Engaging Active Learners and was also featured in the Video Journal’s treatment of “High School Alternative Scheduling.” (Vol. 4, issue 2) A former North Carolina Teacher of the Year, Pam has presented many workshops on the topics of school reform, high school block scheduling, successful strategies for teaching in the 90-minute block, and Socratic questioning through seminars--the single best strategy she knows for active, student-owned learning. She sees Socratic seminar as a natural training for schools which value student communication and are looking for strategies to enhance block scheduling.

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