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Enid Marie Rosario-Ramos – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to draw on the analysis of instruction and student work in an English Language Arts classroom to discuss how teachers may support dispossessed students' journeys toward radical healing (Ginwright, 2010) by using critically caring pedagogies -- pedagogies grounded in teachers' deep understanding of the systemic inequalities…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship, Caring
Teng, Allen – Voices from the Middle, 2012
A middle school language arts teacher reflects on his experience in utilizing a school-housed online social network to create avenues for authentic audience, purpose, and response to student writing. With many technology proponents advocating a 21st century education, the fact that interacting with the Web 2.0 environment is essentially a reading…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Writing Exercises, Writing Teachers, Educational Technology
Gibbons, Virginia; Leibman, Suzanne – 1984
Four techniques are suggested for tutoring students of English as a second language in writing: taking a "writing history" of the student's experiences, failures, and successes at writing by asking open-ended questions in a non-judgmental way during an informal interview; brainstorming about a given writing topic, with the tutor taking close notes…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods

Gowen, Brent – Exercise Exchange, 1985
Provides a rationale for allowing students to write in journals that the teacher will never read. Suggests requiring students to write responses to their journal writing at the end of the semester, which would be shared with the teacher and the rest of the class. Includes a sample response. (HTH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, High Schools, Higher Education, Privacy

Danielson, Lana M. – Journal of School Improvement, 2000
Identifies research contributing to teachers' understanding not only of what it means to teach composition but how it might be implemented in a meaningful and productive manner to improve students' writing. Concludes that a variety of meaningful writing tasks contribute to student growth, writing instruction is a shared responsibility, and the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods
Bloom, Diane S. – 1986
This booklet presents three practical procedures for conferencing to help upper elementary and high school teachers evaluate students' language development while teaching students how to regulate and participate more fully in the process of writing. The booklet includes the following chapters: (1) "The Interaction of Thought and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Intermediate Grades, Peer Teaching, Teacher Student Relationship
Jeffers, Laurie A. – Learning, 1994
Teachers can use dialog journals to inspire their students to write. Such a method allows students to write and teachers to answer without worrying about red marks or negative comments. The article suggests topics to get students writing and ideas for encouraging students to write. (SM)
Descriptors: Dialog Journals, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Communication, Journal Writing

Gaustad, Martha Gonter; Messenheimer-Young, Trinka – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1991
A demonstration writing project involving 97 primary through secondary students with learning disabilities is described. Students developed journals containing ongoing written dialogues with teachers, who also corrected student errors through examples in their own responses. Procedures, integration with writing curriculum, and results of journal…
Descriptors: Dialog Journals, Elementary Secondary Education, Journal Writing, Learning Disabilities
Richards, Patricia A. – 1995
Research suggests that the informal language of journals is very important. Language scholars such as J. Vygotsky (1962), J. Moffell (1968, 1982), P. Elbow (1973, 1982), and M. Shaughnessy (1977) believe that human beings find meaning through exploration in their own talking language. To add to the evidence in this area, a study conducted in an…
Descriptors: Dialog Journals, Free Writing, Grade 3, Journal Writing

Strackbein, Deanna; Tillman, Montague – Journal of Reading, 1987
Provides teachers with instructions on effectively using student journals in classes at all levels. Gives examples of different types of personal writing students can engage in, suggests ways to respond to them, and lists benefits of and reservations about using journals in writing classes. (SKC)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Diaries, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods

Mikkelsen, Nina – Language Arts, 1985
Discusses how one teacher used writing--her own writing as well as that of her graduate students--to learn, about student interests, their writing attitudes, and what a writer really is. Describes the use of dialogue journals, use of excerpted entries for class handouts, and the use of writing for more constructive student assessment. (HTH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Arts, Student Evaluation, Teacher Education
Santaniello, Shelly W. – Teaching Pre K-8, 2004
In this article, the author, a third grade teacher at Hillside School in Needham, Washington, describes how, after a death in her family, she found comfort and made valuable connections with her students by completing a "When I Was" writing assignment that she had assigned them. While sharing the story of her uncle's death with her students, she…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises, Figurative Language
Skulicz, Matthew – Journal of Developmental & Remedial Education, 1985
Discusses the differences between developmental students and their teachers in terms of pragmatism and background. Describes the use of a classroom publishing project, which requires students to contribute articles to the magazine and share editing responsibilities. Discusses the benefits of the approach. (DMM)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Student Motivation

Murdock, Evelyn – Exercise Exchange, 1987
Presents three activities designed motivate student journal writing as a way to help students confront personal fears and open dialogue between troubled students and teachers. (HTH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Junior High Schools, Self Esteem, Student Attitudes

Staton, Jana – Language Arts, 1988
Reports on dialogue journals as effective writing tasks which bridge the gap between spoken conversation and the traditional tasks of essay and report writing. Suggests that the use of dialogue journals improve classroom management and discipline, while creating an individual tutorial relationship of both an academic and personal nature. (MM)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy Education