On this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers,
we have some of our current and former students on to talk about the
high school-college transition. We are also joined by a couple of
National Writing Project teachers who have been involved with the “Framework for Success in Post-secondary Writing” that came out a few months ago.
On this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers, we have some of our current and former students on the podcast to talk about the high school-college transition. We are also joined by a couple of National Writing Project teachers who have been involved with the “Framework for Success in Post-secondary Writing” that came out a few months ago. These frameworks include this amazing list that we invite you to explore:
Habits of Mind
The Framework identifies eight habits of mind essential for success in college writing—ways of approaching learning that are both intellectual and practical and will support students’ success in a variety of fields and disciplines:
Curiosity: the desire to know more about the world.
Openness: the willingness to consider new ways of being and thinking in the world.
Engagement: a sense of investment and involvement in learning.
Creativity: the ability to use novel approaches for generating, investigating, and representing ideas.
Persistence: the ability to sustain interest in and attention to short- and long-term projects.
Responsibility: the ability to take ownership of one’s actions and
understand the consequences of those actions for oneself and others.
Flexibility: the ability to adapt to situations, expectations, or demands.
Metacognition: the ability to reflect on one’s own thinking as well
as on the individual and cultural processes used to structure knowledge.
Our guests on this podcast include:
Lennie Irvin (who recently completed his PhD), is the Co-Director of the San Antonio Writing Project. In addition to working with the above
frameworks, for the past four summers, Lennie has facilitated an open
institute, Crossing2College where they’ve been asking:
What is College Readiness in Writing? and How Do We Get There?
Every year, we have far too many students like Ian. They aren’t the AP kids (though they might be), and they aren’t the students who fail our classes. They do OK, even sometimes receiving excellent grades in our high school classrooms. But when they get to college, they place into Developmental English classes, or worse (like Ian) they crash and burn and drop out of college. They fall off the bridge between high school and college. This site is devoted to local efforts to help more students graduating from high school place directly into college level writing classes, and importantly—do well in freshman composition. It is meant both as a resource and a professional community of practice dedicated to doing more to prepare our students for college and for helping these students do well once they are in college, for “college readiness” and “student success” in college are really two sides of the same coin.
Kirsten Jamsen whose affiliations include being the co-director of the Minnesota Writing Project.
Kirsten presented on the “Frameworks for Success in Postsecondary Writing” at the National Writing Project’s Annual Meeting in November, where she discussed the statement’s purpose, and recounted the process of composing it. We’ll ask her do some of that again. We’ll also use some of her questions from that session to guide our discussion on Wednesday evening: “What is your response to the statement? How might you use it to promote effective writing instruction at your school? How could this statement help you design thoughtful professional development?”
David Pulling whose students at Louisiana State University, Eunice, have been posting on Voices on the Gulf this year. David is the Director of Continuing Education at LSU Eunice, and will share his insights into what it takes to be a successful college writer as well. David is also an active member of the The National Writing Project of Acadiana.
Enjoy!
Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.
Our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers suggest our topic, or perhaps it would be better to say, our questions. It seemed to us that a teacher from West Virginia, near last year's Massey Mine Disaster, would have something to say to a teacher from Louisiana who lives not far from the BP Oil Spill. And both of these teachers might have something to say to teachers who live near Tokyo, south of TEPCO's damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear-power plant. It has been our goal on Teachers Teaching Teachers to understand these crises through the eyes of our colleagues and their students whose lives are most immediately impacted. Thanks to our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we might better understand how and why it is important to bring these stories to our students.
Here's who joined us on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers:
Kim Cofino, @mscofino Technology and Learning Coach at Yokohama International School in Japan. Kim blogs at Always Learning. A wiki that Kim started is quakestories. And, Kim's diigo list.
Laura Kriska, writer of The Accidental Office Lady, Laura is an intercultural consultant, and she just started a website, Cherry Blossom Letters "for American kids here to make art and write letters and then send them in
packages to Second Harvest, a nonprofit aid organization in Japan. Second Harvest makes daily trips to the impacted region and will deliver our packages directly to people in shelters."
The introductions are pretty interesting on their own, but we hope you take the time to listen to the entire conversation!
Our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers suggest our topic, or perhaps it would be better to say, our questions. It seemed to us that a teacher from West Virginia, near last year's Massey Mine Disaster, would have something to say to a teacher from Louisiana who lives not far from the BP Oil Spill. And both of these teachers might have something to say to teachers who live near Tokyo, south of TEPCO's damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear-power plant. It has been our goal on Teachers Teaching Teachers to understand these crises through the eyes of our colleagues and their students whose lives are most immediately impacted. Thanks to our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we might better understand how and why it is important to bring these stories to our students.
Here's who joined us on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers:
Kim Cofino, @mscofino Technology and Learning Coach at Yokohama International School in Japan. Kim blogs at Always Learning. A wiki that Kim started is quakestories. And, Kim's diigo list.
Laura Kriska, writer of The Accidental Office Lady, Laura is an intercultural consultant, and she just started a website, Cherry Blossom Letters "for American kids here to make art and write letters and then send them in
packages to Second Harvest, a nonprofit aid organization in Japan. Second Harvest makes daily trips to the impacted region and will deliver our packages directly to people in shelters."
The introductions are pretty interesting on their own, but we hope you take the time to listen to the entire conversation!
Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.
Talking about their own versions of place-based education, our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers are:
Diana Laufenberg, Zac Chase, and a student, Luna from the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia
Woody Woodgate from Alaska
David Pulling from Louisiana State University at Eunice
Talking about their own versions of place-based education, our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers are:
Diana Laufenberg, Zac Chase, and a student, Luna from the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia
Woody Woodgate from Alaska
David Pulling from Louisiana State University at Eunice
We asked Diana and Zac to come talk about an interdisciplinary project they did/are doing with juniors. Each student was invited to find a building in his/her neighborhood with a name on it, then to learn the history of that person and the building. From there, students created multimedia presentations. Diana and Zac brought this example to their conversation at last month’s Educon 2.3, and we wanted to learn more! Wait until you see this work!
David writes:
Many in my semester’s class have joined Voices on the Gulf since a couple of weeks ago, and Wednesday I’m going to give them a prompt for their first post. I’m going to start them off the same way I did the class last fall, asking them to study their back yards or neighborhoods or pastures or homes to identify some place or thing that they may take for granted and to consider the cost of losing it, etc. etc. etc. I’ll encourage them to post pix or videos as well. I’ll guide them into inquiry from there. I hope you’ll hear from some neat students and read some neat stuff. I’ve got an eager and industrious bunch this semester.
If that’s not enough, our old friend from Alaska, Woody will be joining us as well. Woody has focused a lot of his scholarship and pedagogy around place-based education in rural Alaska. We have already learned a lot from him, and we look forward to re-connecting with him on Wednesday. Woody writes:
I am negotiating to go back out to rural Alaska to teach at a site that is heavily focused on what they call “relevant education” and what we have been calling place-based education. I will be focusing on how to incorporate standards into the already established outdoor program. Therefore, I gladly accept your invitation in hopes that I can get back up to speed with what others
have been doing in this area in the last 3 years since I have been out of the classroom trenches.
Pretty exciting stuff! We hope you enjoy learning with us.
Meet Erick Gordon the new director of the New York City Writing Project and the founder of the Student Press Initiative.
Enjoy the perspectives of a couple of the digital photographers who are in Chris
Sloan’s school in Salt Lake City, where they had just published their
student magazine, the Bulldog Press on MagCloud for the first time.
Warm to the thoughts of David
Pulling from LSU-Eunice who gives us an update on how
his students I-Search papers. In particular we invite you to take a look at this one by Vonda
Guidry: “Potential Health Effects of Food Contamination From the BP Oil Spill.” Paul Allison’s high school students and Vonda had a productive dialogue in the comments under her discussion post.
And of course you don't want to miss Margaret Simon's elementary
school students who have publishing on Voices on the Gulf — and who now
have other ideas, as Margaret explains:
Things are good and busy. Our gifted students present a historical
play each year for first graders in the parish at The Shadows, a
plantation home on the bayou. There is much involved in preparing and
performing, so little else goes on.
My student Kaylie is working on making Clover the Plover
a book. She is illustrating it using Paint on the Promethean board. I
hope to publish it on Lulu as a fundraiser for the Gulf.
And
more! Why don’t you drop by too? We invite you to join us every Wednesday at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA (World Times).
Meet Erick Gordon the new director of the New York City Writing Project and the founder of the Student Press Initiative.
Enjoy the perspectives of a couple of the digital photographers who are in Chris
Sloan’s school in Salt Lake City, where they had just published their
student magazine, the Bulldog Press on MagCloud for the first time.
Warm to the thoughts of David
Pulling from LSU-Eunice who gives us an update on how
his students I-Search papers. In particular we invite you to take a look at this one by Vonda
Guidry: “Potential Health Effects of Food Contamination From the BP Oil Spill.” Paul Allison’s high school students and Vonda had a productive dialogue in the comments under her discussion post.
And of course you don't want to miss Margaret Simon's elementary school students who have publishing on Voices on the Gulf — and who now have other ideas, as Margaret explains:
Things are good and busy. Our gifted students present a historical
play each year for first graders in the parish at The Shadows, a
plantation home on the bayou. There is much involved in preparing and
performing, so little else goes on.
My student Kaylie is working on making Clover the Plover
a book. She is illustrating it using Paint on the Promethean board. I
hope to publish it on Lulu as a fundraiser for the Gulf.
And
more! Why don’t you drop by too? We invite you to join us every Wednesday at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA (World Times).
Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.
When the Deepwater Horizon oil well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico
earlier this year, teachers across the country recognized an opportunity
to bring real-world applications of math and science into their
classrooms. Similarly, the rescue of 33 Chilean miners has triggered
student discussions about everything from heroism to human biology.
In the wake of such dramatic events, some teachers are eager to do
more than host current-events-style conversations. They want to use the
news as a launching pad for in-depth student learning. But making that
happen requires teachers and students to dive into topics for which
there are no texts or guidebooks. What’s more, maintaining student
interest can be challenging once the headlines start to fade and media
attention shifts to tomorrow’s hot topic.
How do you plan for academically rigorous projects that are “ripped
from the headlines”? Here are a few suggestions, along with some timely
resources.
When the Deepwater Horizon oil well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year, teachers across the country recognized an opportunity to bring real-world applications of math and science into their classrooms. Similarly, the rescue of 33 Chilean miners has triggered student discussions about everything from heroism to human biology.
In the wake of such dramatic events, some teachers are eager to do more than host current-events-style conversations. They want to use the news as a launching pad for in-depth student learning. But making that happen requires teachers and students to dive into topics for which there are no texts or guidebooks. What’s more, maintaining student interest can be challenging once the headlines start to fade and media attention shifts to tomorrow’s hot topic.
How do you plan for academically rigorous projects that are “ripped from the headlines”? Here are a few suggestions, along with some timely resources.
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