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Hallman, Heidi L. – English Journal, 2009
An article entitled "Pupils Persevere" covered the front page of Madison's local newspaper in February 2005. Highlighting the plight of four alternative programs in Madison's public school system, the article both angered and pleased students at this school. Although the central point of the front-page article was a plea for a larger physical…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Editing, Early Parenthood, Classroom Techniques
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Feinberg, Barbara – Education Next, 2007
This article discusses the work of Lucy McCormick Calkins, an educator and the visionary founding director of Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Begun in 1981, the think tank and teacher training institute has since trained hundreds of thousands of educators across the country. Calkins is one of the original architects of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Change Agents, Program Effectiveness, Institutional Research
Perdomo, Willie; Dolin, Sharon – Teachers & Writers, 2003
Suggests adding poetry instruction to the Children's Defense Fund, a fund created to ensure that poor children get the basic necessities of life--food, healthcare, and education. Talks about the influence that Langston Hughes, a poet who lived in Harlem, had on the first author. Encourages students to avoid living other people's answers and to…
Descriptors: Black Literature, Elementary Education, Jealousy, Poetry
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Beidler, Peter G. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1991
Lists six recommendations made by consultants who evaluated a writing program at Lehigh University. Gives a brief history of the problem that led to each of the recommendations. Offers five tips for others who are thinking of doing a writing program evaluation. (MG)
Descriptors: Consultants, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
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McLeod, Susan H. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1991
Describes the institutional and programmatic context in which a consultant-evaluation visit was requested at Washington State University and the evaluators' recommendations and subsequent changes that have taken place. Lists five reasons for requesting an evaluation. (MG)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Administration, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Dohrmann, Sarah – Teachers & Writers, 2002
Presents journal entries over one semester of the author's experiences teaching poetry to "SIE VII" special education students at PS 162M in Harlem. Notes that "SIE VII" is a New York City Board of Education classification for children who "display severe emotional disturbances, such as infantile behaviors, lack of self control, and withdrawn or…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Journal Writing, Poetry, Program Effectiveness
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Glazer, Zelda – English Education, 1985
Identifies five factors that contributed to the success of a two-week composition inservice teacher education program. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Teacher Education, Guidelines, Inservice Teacher Education
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Glazer, Zelda – English Education, 1985
Describes one inservice program in writing that produced a greater commitment to teaching on the part of the teachers involved. Discusses program elements that contributed to that commitment. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Content, Program Effectiveness
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Smith, Frank – Language Arts, 1981
Examines the shortcomings of prepackaged teaching programs for reading and writing instruction that are designed by those removed from the learning environment. (HTH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
Schlawin, Sheila A. – 1981
The New York State Regents Competency Tests in Writing and Comprehensive Examination in English reflect the belief that the current emphasis on test results mandates that testmakers produce tests that actually test what they purport to test, reflect what educators agree should be taught, and have a beneficial influence on teaching. Prior to the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness
Brown, Jean E.; And Others – Highway One, 1984
Describes a model inservice program developed and implemented in the Bangor Township (Michigan) elementary schools, which was structured on the process approach to writing instruction. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Process Approach (Writing), Program Content
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Beach, Richard – English Education, 1984
Suggests that a successful composition inservice program revolves around four components--theory/knowledge, categories or schema, teacher attitudes, and teacher behavior. Concludes that as teachers acquire knowledge of categories, and as they change attitudes toward self-assessing and revising, they change their behavior. (FL)
Descriptors: Consultants, Educational Theories, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness
McEwen, Christian – Teachers and Writers, 1991
Describes the Teachers and Writers Collaborative at P.S 49 and the principal who keeps the writing program going. Discusses how the collaboration works and the teaching techniques used by the writing teachers in the school. (MG)
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Program Effectiveness
Meagher, E. M. – 1982
The development of a college writing program can offer many challenges to a program director drawn from the ranks of the English faculty. The discipline of writing, an act of production, is both scorned and clutched by faculty who have been trained to analyze literature, an act of perception. Literature specialists, to be qualified to teach…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Faculty, English Curriculum, English Departments
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Becker, Henry Jay – American Journal of Education, 1984
Considers the motives for schools acquiring computers, three different ways in which computers may be relevant to instruction, and the extent to which they address broadly shared ideals for children's education. Also discusses the effectiveness of computer-assisted instruction in drills and tutorials and the development of writing skills. (RDN)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education, Drills (Practice)
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