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Belfiore, M. Nicole; Hoover, Jeanette L.; Jenkins, Angel R.; Ting, Laura – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
Social work educators teach cultural competency and guide students to understand and address racism. Using mixed methods, we explored the influence of a one-semester course on racial attitudes, skills, and knowledge among 10 diverse undergraduate students. The "Seeing White" podcast delivered content about historic and systemic…
Descriptors: Social Work, Teaching Methods, Racial Bias, Racial Attitudes
Bixby, Matt M. – Mathematics Teacher, 2018
Almost twenty years ago, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) published "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics" (2000), which recommended that teachers should incorporate more writing into their math lessons, claiming that writing helps students "consolidate their thinking" (p. 402) by causing them…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Writing Assignments, Teaching Methods, Content Area Writing
MacArthur, Charles A.; Philippakos, Zoi A. – Teachers College Press, 2023
Discover an innovative, evidence-based method for preparing students for the demands of college writing called Supporting Strategic Writers (SSW). The goal of SSW is to help students become independent learners who understand the value of strategies and can apply them flexibly in future courses and the workplace. The text provides genre-based…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Critical Literacy
Dukewich, Kristie R.; Vossen, Deborah P. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2015
Writing-to-learn involves the use of low-stakes informal writing activities intended to help students reflect on concepts or ideas presented in a course. Writing-to-learn can be a flexible and effective tool to help students understand and engage with course concepts, and past research has shown that writing-to-learn activities can substantially…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing (Composition), Reflection, Journal Writing
Baxter, Scott J. – English Teaching Forum, 2009
In this article, the author describes some of the ways that journals can be used as teaching tools in the language classroom; in fact, the suggestions he makes could be applied to the use of journals in teaching just about any subject. He begins by describing the concept of writing to learn, which is the theoretical foundation that journals are…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Diaries, Journal Writing
Salcedo, Julie Bader – Language Arts, 2009
This paper describes diverse language learners' use of dialogue journaling in an elementary school setting. The author, a teacher researcher, conducted a qualitative research study with eight participants, ranging from fourth to sixth grade; all were learners adding English to their language repertoire. Through an in-depth analysis of student…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Grade 6, Teacher Researchers, English (Second Language)
McTigue, Erin M.; Washburn, Erin K.; Liew, Jeffrey – Reading Teacher, 2009
The socioemotional factors, which influence students' trajectories on their pathways to reading success, are often overlooked in literacy screenings and reading instruction. This article outlines the connections between personality factors, in particular resilient personalities, and early literacy success. It also offers teachers a series of six…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Reading Instruction, Personality Traits, Reading Improvement
Dahlstrom, Lorraine M.; Espeland, Pamela, Ed. – 1990
This book offers an entire year of journaling ideas--some serious, some "silly," but all tied to the calendar year. In fact, the book's sections are the months of the year. Each idea in the book comes with a fact-filled introduction and aims to prove that writing does not have to be boring or dull. As a special feature, many entries in…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Class Activities, Creative Writing, Diaries
Cobine, Gary R. – 1995
Although reading and writing exist only in relation to each other, writing plays little or no role in the usual instructional approaches to reading. Mostly, reading is taught as a sequence of discrete skills, which is ineffective since it accommodates the analytic reading style to the exclusion of global, kinesthetic, and auditory styles. Reading…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Journal Writing, Reader Response, Reading Instruction
Bolling, Anna L. – 1993
Combining the journal writing process with the concepts of collaboration can produce more focused writing and learning. Through the channel of collaborative situations, such as group journal writing, teachers can capitalize on the benefits achieved from the collaborative process and cultivate thinking and writing skills. A group journal writing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Collaborative Writing, Higher Education, Journal Writing
Cole, SuzAnne C. – 1990
After students' interest in literature has been stirred by journal writing, it is time for them to turn their private journal writing into writing for an audience. Instead of having students write the usual responses to literature, vary their assignments by offering them creative responses, either occasionally or as an individual alternative to…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Creative Writing, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Cobine, Gary R. – 1996
This digest discusses expressive writing and the expressive mode, which is seen as a recurring stage in a writer's process of writing. The digest suggests that by structuring expressive writing activities and correlating them with particular stages of the writing process, a teacher can draw the natural linguistic activity out of a student. The…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Free Writing, Higher Education, Journal Writing

Davis, Barbara H.; And Others – Social Education, 1992
Presents results of a project examining the effects of writing to learn in elementary social studies. Explains that the research explored journal writing activities as a means of improving social studies achievement, writing fluency, and communication. Concludes that journal writing does increase writing fluency and learning retention. (DK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 4, Journal Writing, Social Studies
Wollman-Bonilla, Julie – 2003
This lesson introduces Family Message Journals, a tool for encouraging family involvement and supporting writing to reflect and learn. First and second graders are led into composing through demonstration, guided writing, and finally independent writing of messages that they will bring home for family to read and write a reply. During the three…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Lesson Plans, Parent Participation, Primary Education
Brew, Alan – 2003
In outdoor education, reflection transforms experience into knowledge. Writing activities facilitate reflection. In designing writing activities, instructors should ask themselves why they are asking their students to write, what type of writing is appropriate for their purpose, when and in what context the activity should take place, how they…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Essays, Experiential Learning