Prepared for use by graduate students who are teaching their first courses in freshman composition, this guide offers principles, strategies, and activities that are adaptable to a variety of composition programs. The 44 daily lesson plans are arranged in 16 week-long units and cover such topics as sentence combining, participles, absolutes,…

Students who use drama assess their work through using a science fiction essay to help them look for and make connections between times, places, people, and situations. The students then use assessment guidelines to focus their ideas, stimulate their creativity, and demonstrate minimum standards of excellence. Finally, students have access to…

A study investigated the relationship between teacher writing apprehension and the uses of writing in various classrooms. Subjects were 192 secondary school teachers who completed a writing apprehension measure and a questionnaire that elicited information about their teaching experience, subject and grade level taught, and the number, length,…

A developmental English program for a liberal arts college should be individualized and intellectually challenging to students entering a four-year baccalaureate program. Such a program must emphasize motivation, flexibility, and a well-conceived progression for acquiring skills. It should view writing as a holistic process and should use such…

This paradigm for accountability in education is based upon three concepts: (1) that the analysis and assessment of teachers lead to the establishment of growth and development programs for teachers and that these evaluations be based upon the specific roles that teachers are performing at any given time; (2) that the continuous progress of…

Rhetoric, the persuasive use of language to influence public thought and action, is experienced in advertising, and advertising can be used as a medium for teaching rhetoric. Advertising demonstrates both admirable and creative use of English and despicable corruption of both language and thought. Both aspects can be employed in teaching…

THROUGH A RECENT QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY OF ALL IOWA TEACHERS ASSIGNED AT LEAST ONE ENGLISH CLASS IN GRADES 9-12, COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION WAS COLLECTED ON TEACHER TRAINING, ASSIGNMENTS, AND ATTITUDES. RESULTS SHOWED THAT APPROXIMATELY TWO-THIRDS OF THE SECONDARY ENGLISH TEACHERS WERE WOMEN, THAT ALL TEACHERS HAD BACHELOR'S DEGREES, AND THAT 60…

The purpose of this survey was to determine how public school teachers view the need to perform certain job-related responsibilities and the adequacy of their college preparation for meeting those duties. The responses to the questionnaire are presented in tabular form. A copy of the questionnaire is appended to this report. (JD)

This document presents the results of a survey concerning the percentage of mathematics, science, and social studies teachers who assign writing to their students and the percentage of textbooks in these three content areas which include writing assignments. Some of the findings were that mathematics and science teachers favor reporting over…

This paper initially presents the results of several studies concerning what kind of writing science teachers assign and what kind of writing science textbooks assign. By far, reporting was the most popular type of writing assigned in the surveyed textbooks, although other types of writing were in evidence. Exposition tended to take three forms:…