Developing Writers: A Workshop for High School Teachers
Providing Feedback on Student Writing (#106)
Student writing demands reaction from both teachers and peers. But what kind of interaction is most powerful and rewarding? Teachers, researchers, and authors tackle this issue, discussing and demonstrating effective ways to conference and comment on student work and direct other members of the writing community to do the same. Judith Ortiz Cofer directs the teachers as they comment on each others' work.
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- 9-12
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- Literacy & Languages
- Professional Development
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- 8 episodes
- Average Episode Length
- 58 minutes
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Series Description: This series offers practical and philosophical advice for teaching writing, while examining issues every teacher faces, such as high-stakes assessments and dealing with differently abled students. The programs feature teachers who are helping their students grow as skilled and effective writers. Participants will observe how teachers and students work together to create writing communities. Professional writers will share their processes as they move from initial concepts to publication. Watch it Online
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First Steps (#101)
This session reviews first steps teachers should take when working with student writers. Educators, researchers and writers express the benefits and value students find as they grow as writers, communicators, and thinkers. Visits to classrooms throughout the country underscore their thoughts. Noted author Judith Ortiz Cofer leads the featured teachers in a writer's activity focused on word triggers and their place in the processes of writing. [58 minutes]
- Sat, June 15, 2:00 AM on IPTV
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A Shared Path (#102)
What kind of atmosphere do students need to grow as writers? This session concentrates on the 'hows' and 'whys' that answer that question. Featured teachers talk about the physical set-up of a writing community, the importance of reading in a writing classroom, and their own roles as co-writers in the community. Teachers react in writing to Judith Ortiz Cofer's assignment: hiding and revealing through language. [58 minutes]
- Sat, June 22, 2:00 AM on IPTV
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Different Audiences (#103)
This program examines the 'self' most writers address, showing how the concept of writing for an audience is threaded throughout the dynamic and nonlinear processes of writing. From there, the program looks to a wider range of audiences, examining the demands the student writer encounters in addressing audiences in language arts and other disciplines, and audiences on other levels, such as those encountered in college and the job world. [58 minutes]
- Sat, June 29, 2:00 AM on IPTV
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Different Purposes (#104)
Purpose directly relates to the form or genre selected to express writers' ideas. In this program, the teachers examine this relationship, presenting classroom examples of students working in many genres, including persuasive writing, memoir, and poetry. Their subsequent analysis underscores what students can learn by examining commonalities and differences among genres and the value of multigenre projects. [58 minutes]
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Usage and Mechanics (#105)
This program focuses on questions of grammar and mechanics: When should students and reviewers of student work pay attention to usage and mechanics? Does teaching grammar in context really work? Grammar experts add to the conversation, analyzing its role in communication and providing ways to bridge the connection between message and mechanics. Judith Ortiz Cofer challenges teachers to use only one sentence form to tell a story. [58 minutes]
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Providing Feedback on Student Writing (#106)
Student writing demands reaction from both teachers and peers. But what kind of interaction is most powerful and rewarding? Teachers, researchers, and authors tackle this issue, discussing and demonstrating effective ways to conference and comment on student work and direct other members of the writing community to do the same. Judith Ortiz Cofer directs the teachers as they comment on each others' work. [58 minutes]
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Learning from Professional Writers (#107)
What can young writers learn from those who make their living through writing? Educators, researchers, and noted authors offer innovative ways to bring the voice of the professional into the classroom. Teachers show how professional works by favorite writers can be the seeds for engaging classroom activities, while authors talk about their own writing processes and writing heroes. Maxine Hong Kingston, Patrick Jennings, Margo Jefferson, Christopher Meyers, Amy Tan, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, and Tracy Mack appear in this program. [58 minutes]
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Writing in the 21st Century (#108)
Technology has expanded the tools available to all writers. It has also opened new venues with new requirements for their work. How can teachers make the best use of these new resources? Teachers show some beginning steps they have taken to integrate technology into their instruction and their professional lives, and talk about the benefits and challenges evolving media present to them and their students. [58 minutes]