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Hardy, Mat; Totman, Sally – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2021
The Middle East Study Tour (MEST) is a capstone elective unit that stands alone as a credit module towards an undergraduate degree. The tour has the dual purposes of exposing students to the Middle East region's political challenges and better illuminating potential career paths for life after university. But is one student's personal discovery…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Travel, Elective Courses, Units of Study
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Kiernan, Julia; Meier, Joyce; Wang, Xiqiao – Composition Forum, 2020
This program profile describes how teachers and administrators have collaborated in the design and implementation of a number of linguistic, cultural, and transmodal pedagogical and curricular initiatives. Strategies that writing teachers can implement to best meet the needs of multilingual students across a range of institutional contexts are…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Program Design, Program Implementation, Writing Teachers
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Belk, John – Composition Forum, 2018
This profile describes how the Writing Program at Southern Utah University enacts a rhetorical humanist framework in its administrative and curricular structures. At the administrative level, rhetorical humanism offers a collaborative governance model that gives all faculty a voice in programmatic decisions, while managing the cacophony created by…
Descriptors: Humanism, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Decision Making
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Hiller, Kristin E. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This article describes an innovative approach to introducing translanguaging in an English for academic purposes (EAP) course at a young Sino-US joint-venture university in China. To promote the use of Chinese students' full linguistic and communicative repertoires in an English-medium-of-instruction university, I intentionally incorporated…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Maloy, Robert W.; Edwards, Sharon A.; Evans, Allison – Journal of Educators Online, 2014
This paper describes utilizing wiki technology, small group workshops, and reflective writing assignments to "flip" a community engagement/service-learning course for college undergraduates who are tutoring culturally and linguistically diverse students in K-12 schools. Flipped classrooms are gaining popularity in the teaching of…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Workshops, Educational Strategies, Service Learning
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Kolb, Patricia – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2013
This article describes the goals and methods of the international Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) movement in higher education, and WAC-enriched learning approaches that the author used in teaching a social work gerontology practice course and a sociological theories of aging course. The author's in-class, low-stakes, nongraded writing…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Teaching Methods, Social Work, Writing Across the Curriculum
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Tobin, Thomas – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2010
Secondary schools use a variety of methods to assess students' learning. In particular, writing assignments are not only among the most widely utilized type of evaluation but also are one of the most important for future success in post-secondary school environments. The present analysis utilizes the McCallie School Caldwell Writing Center as a…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, College Preparation, Learning Laboratories, Writing (Composition)
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Daraviras, Tracy – NADE Digest, 2012
When evaluating the effectiveness of their program, members of the Brooklyn College SEEK Department, a higher education opportunity program, decided to make their pedagogy more student-centered. They created a method of reading instruction, which they named critical inquiry. Its goals are to build community through teaching students to annotate,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Preparation, Inquiry, Program Effectiveness
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Johnson, Frances; Garza, Susan; Ballmer, Noelle – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2009
Not too many years ago, right about the start of the new millennium, the TAMU-CC Writing Center began to pull away from the model of a center that focuses mostly on individual consultations and began to build a greater sense of the place of the Writing Center in the larger university Writing Community. In this article, we share how we have built…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Theory Practice Relationship, Communities of Practice, Learning Resources Centers
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Taraban, Roman; Orengil, Cynthia – Reading Teacher, 1996
Describes a school-wide creative writing activity for grades 1-9 in which students wrote about their teacher's (fictional) early life. (SR)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Program Descriptions
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Allen, Kathy – English Journal, 1990
Describes "Project History in the Making" in which students in the class of 1990 read letters written by members of the classes of 1940 and 1965 and write letters to the class of 2015. Notes some of the questions asked by the class of 1990 to invited guests from the classes of 1940 and 1965. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Letters (Correspondence), Local History, Middle Schools
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McGaha, Johnny E. – Reading Improvement, 1992
Describes the participation of the Criminal Justice Department at Southeast Missouri State University in the campus Writing across the Curriculum program. Makes practical suggestions for assignments designed to enhance writing skills without adding new burdens for the faculty. (SR)
Descriptors: Faculty Workload, Higher Education, Program Descriptions, Writing Across the Curriculum
Sonnek, Bonnie K. – 2000
The IowaLink Program at the University of Iowa is a two-semester, academic support program for recruited students. The program provides an extended academic transition between high school and college for students who have demonstrated the potential to succeed at Iowa but who do not meet standards for regular admission. One of the features of the…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Environment, First Year Seminars, Higher Education
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Fotinelli, Georgianna Striggles – English Journal, 1998
Describes the Athens Writing Project, how it began, and the role it has served and continues to serve. Discusses the issue of voice, and describes a reflective writing sequence used in the project. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Program Descriptions
McCallister, Cynthia – 1994
An instructor of an undergraduate literacy methods course included a portfolio as a component of assessment. Based on a review of the literature and the elements of the portfolio assessment program used in the General College Program at the State University of New York College at Fredonia, the instructor adapted the portfolio process for her…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Methods Courses, Portfolios (Background Materials), Program Descriptions
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