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Debra McKeown; Kay Wijekumar; Julie Owens; Karen Harris; Steve Graham; Puiwa Lei; Erin FitzPatrick – Grantee Submission, 2023
Writing is a critical skill for success in all areas of life, but it is one of the least taught skills in school. Teachers consistently report being unprepared to teach writing. In this study, set in a Southern U.S. boomtown, teachers received two days of practice-based professional development for a ten-week implementation of self-regulated…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Evidence Based Practice, Writing Strategies, Self Management
Achieving the Dream, 2022
Gateway courses in English challenge students to strengthen skills in critical thinking, reading, grammar, and writing structure and strategies -- skills that also help build competency in comprehension and composition. They can also prove to be a particular challenge to many community college students. This case study examines the efforts at…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2015
The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) incorporates challenging literacy standards into middle grades and high school content areas within a variety of academic disciplines, not just English/language arts courses. The Mathematics Design Collaborative (MDC) provides schools with instructional tools needed to help teachers understand and implement…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Literacy, Mathematics Education, Educational Strategies
Webb, Adam – Online Submission, 2011
Mobile Internet-based technologies have created the opportunity for many students to view writing and research as an everyday activity. While many students use these kinds of technologies on a daily basis in and outside of the classroom, not many writing pedagogies reflect this shift or capitalize on how beginner writers use them to effectively…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Heuristics, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Griffith, James D.; Hart, Christian L.; Goodling, Morgan M. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2006
Grant writing experience can be a valuable asset for students completing masters-level degree programs across a variety of disciplines. A service learning grant writing project was incorporated in a multidisciplinary program evaluation course as part of a writing requirement. Twelve students served as "ghost writers" and wrote grant…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Grantsmanship, Proposal Writing, Program Evaluation
Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed.; Maloch, Beth, Ed.; Hoffman, James V., Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2002
This volume presents the 51st Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Included in this volume are 28 research reports, six invited and award-winning addresses, and a conference summary by Deborah Dillion. Readers will find quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies throughout the volume about topics ranging from early literacy…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Core Curriculum, Reading Research, Yearbooks