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Nancy Mack – Composition Forum, 2023
The bias against personal experience manifests in writing courses as privileging the citation of scholars, fearing emotional writing, and equating argumentation with democratic ideals. To value the lives and knowledges of marginalized students, the curricular goals, assignments, and activities for writing courses needs to be reconsidered.…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Disadvantaged, Culturally Relevant Education, Personal Narratives
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Nadan, Yochay – Journal of Social Work Education, 2019
The ever growing diversity poses challenges for social work educators, who are engaged in developing new pedagogical methods for enhancing multicultural practice. Within the framework of a diversity course, I have developed a pedagogical practice for training social workers to work in a diverse, multicultural reality. Students conduct an…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Interviews, Research Methodology, Multicultural Education
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Campbell, Jennifer – Composition Forum, 2016
In addition to teaching research and writing skills, First-Year Composition classes are well situated to help students develop strategies for managing stress and increasing well-being. I describe an assignment sequence in which students interview others from three generations about topics related to happiness and wellbeing, analyze shared…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Interviews, Writing (Composition)
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Fan, Yu Shu – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Thinking Maps is a language of eight visual patterns, each based on a fundamental thought process, designed by Dr. David N. Hyerle. The visual patterns are based on cognitive skills and applied in all content areas. Not only are they used in different combinations for depth and complexity, but are also used by all members in the school community.…
Descriptors: Maps, Visual Stimuli, Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction
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Monte-Sano, Chauncey; De La Paz, Susan; Felton, Mark; Piantedosi, Kelly Worland; Yee, Laura S.; Carey, Roderick L. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2017
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) emphasize disciplinary literacy by making literacy instruction every teacher's responsibility (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010). The CCSS require content area teachers to adapt curriculum and pedagogy to support disciplinary literacy…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, History Instruction, Best Practices, Common Core State Standards
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Smith, Dan – Teaching History, 2014
What is a sense of period? And how can pupils' sense of period be developed? Questions such as these have troubled history teachers for many years, often revolving around debates over the role played by empathy and imagination in coming to know a period on its own terms. Rather than adopt a comparative approach, Dan Smiths decided in his teaching…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, European History
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McConlogue, Teresa – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
Peer assessment of long written tasks poses particular problems as these tasks typically involve complex learning and solving ill-structured problems which require divergent responses. Marking reliability of this kind of writing task is difficult to achieve. The author illustrates this through an evaluation of two implementations of peer…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Student Evaluation, Grading, Peer Evaluation
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Rumsey, Suzanne Kesler; Nihiser, Tanja – Community Literacy Journal, 2011
Prompted by Cushman and Grabill's call to "ask and answer the difficult questions" about service learning ("Reflections" 2009), this article addresses the difficult question of "what happens when service learning goes wrong." Authors engaged in family history writing and service learning with a local historical group. When the project was unable…
Descriptors: Expectation, Service Learning, College Students, Writing Assignments
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Applebee, Arthur N.; Langer, Judith A. – English Journal, 2011
In the May 2009 issue of "English Journal", we reported on our analysis of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress to provide a first look at changes in the teaching of writing over the past 30 years. In this article, we provide a more detailed look, drawing on data collected from visits to 260 English, math, social…
Descriptors: High Schools, Middle Schools, Interviews, National Surveys
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Goldblatt, Eli – Community Literacy Journal, 2008
In the summer of 2006, Open Borders Project/Proyecto Sin Fronteras, a small educational center in the heart of Latino North Philadelphia, sponsored a six-week program to teach teens from Philadelphia public schools how to plan and conduct interviews, edit audio files, and write the necessary preparatory material to produce short pieces about…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Summer Programs, Personal Narratives, Hispanic Americans
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Bloxham, Sue; West, Amanda – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
This paper reports on the second phase of a project designed to improve students' understanding of assessment demands. In Stage 1, Level 1 students were involved in a range of activities culminating in peer marking. This peer assessment was, itself, marked by the tutors to encourage students to engage positively with the process. Stage 2 of the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Writing Assignments, Student Attitudes
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Wellin, Chris – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2007
Narrative interviewing (also termed qualitative interviewing) is a valid and vivid way to apply perspectives and concepts in gerontology to individual lives. As such it is widely used as a research method. However, teachers in many fields also assign interview projects for students, as supplemental assignments in aging-related courses. This…
Descriptors: Interviews, Questioning Techniques, Qualitative Research, Student Research
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Krapels, Roberta H.; Davis, Barbara D. – Business Communication Quarterly, 1999
Considers how business writing class instructors generally assign reports that require source notations in a specific format. Discusses developing questions to be asked with middle or senior level managers at several different businesses. Presents a discussion of the interview results. Provides strong support for requiring students to reference…
Descriptors: Business Education, Citations (References), Higher Education, Interviews
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Moni, Roger W.; Moni, Karen B.; Poronnik, Philip – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2007
The teaching of highly valued scientific writing skills in the first year of university is challenging. This report describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a novel written assignment, "The Personal Response" and accompanying Peer Review, in the course, Human Biology (BIOL1015) at The University of Queensland. These assignments were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Writing, Writing Skills, Biology
Burkhardt, Ross M. – National Middle School Association (NJ3), 2004
The author maintains that middle level teachers can create curriculum connections that engage families in their children's learning and strengthen the home-school relationship. This article offers four examples of school-initiated partnerships, each of which connects students with their families. These are: (1) the Relative Letter, in which…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Family Involvement, Family School Relationship, Writing Assignments
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