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mrs Thompson

If You Teach or Write 5-Paragraph Essays--Stop It! | The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino ... - 19 views

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shared by mrs Thompson on 15 May 12 - No Cached
  • Holly Pope on 15 May 12
     
    Ray Salazar's argument for changing our approach to writing essays in light of the Common Core State Standards...very interesting.
Sara Thompson

Testing the Teachers - NYTimes.com - 79 views

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education assessment teaching learning essay

shared by Sara Thompson on 20 Apr 12 - No Cached
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      Sara Thompson on 20 Apr 12
       
      assessment, yes; testing, no. There are plenty of other forms of providing data, such as portfolios. 
  • There has to be a better way to get data so schools themselves can figure out how they’re doing in comparison with their peers.
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      Sara Thompson on 20 Apr 12
       
      Does he actually think No Child Left Behind WORKS???
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  • If you go to the Web page of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and click on “assessment,” you will find a dazzling array of experiments that institutions are running to figure out how to measure learning.
  • Some schools like Bowling Green and Portland State are doing portfolio assessments — which measure the quality of student papers and improvement over time. Some, like Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, use capstone assessment, creating a culminating project in which the students display their skills in a way that can be compared and measured.
  • The challenge is not getting educators to embrace the idea of assessment. It’s mobilizing them to actually enact it in a way that’s real and transparent to outsiders.
  • Sara Thompson on 20 Apr 12
     
    There's an atmosphere of grand fragility hanging over America's colleges. The grandeur comes from the surging application rates, the international renown, the fancy new dining and athletic facilities. The fragility comes from the fact that colleges are charging more money, but it's not clear how much actual benefit they are providing.
Kate B. Pok-Carabalona

Mac App Store - Essay Grader - 123 views

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grading teaching tools edtech essay resources iPad software

shared by Kate B. Pok-Carabalona on 16 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Kate B. Pok-Carabalona on 16 Nov 11
     
    I do actually have this and while there are some things I don't like about it (having to enter each student's email one at a time), I do find the concept interesting...and while this is a bookmark for the iPad, there's also a version for Windows and Mac.
Peter Beens

If Education Was Really About Learning…. - 50 views

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education essay issues

shared by Peter Beens on 13 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Peter Beens on 13 Nov 11
     
    Great essay about what learning should really be like.
Florence Dujardin

Creme 2002 - Creative Participation in the Essay Writing Process - 26 views

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writing essay process creativity identity reflexivity

shared by Florence Dujardin on 25 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Florence Dujardin on 25 Jun 11
     
    This article reports on a qualitative action research project which looked at the possibility that giving students an opportunity to explore their relationship with their essays through a range of creative writing techniques might enhance creativity in university writing. The project comprised a series of practical and experiential workshops, with questionnaires and follow-up interviews. The workshops are described, and themes arising from the different strands of the project discussed, using case study material from individual students. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives from psychoanalysis, literary theory and academic literacies, the discussion covers notions of genre, writer identity, creativity and play. We argue that approaches introduced in these workshops have implications for mainstream practice in ways that could enable students to feel freer, more empowered and more present in their university writing.
Kate B. Pok-Carabalona

Writing in College - 1. Some crucial differences between high school and college writing - 55 views

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teaching writing essay

shared by Kate B. Pok-Carabalona on 08 Feb 11 - Cached
  • you will be asked to analyze the reading, to make a worthwhile claim about it that is not obvious (state a thesis means almost the same thing), to support your claim with good reasons, all in four or five pages that are organized to present an argument .
  • They expect to see a claim that would encourage them to say, "That's interesting. I'd like to know more."
  • They expect to see evidence, reasons for your claim, evidence that would encourage them to agree with your claim, or at least to think it plausible.
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  • They expect to see that you've thought about limits and objections to your claim.
  • This kind of argument is less like disagreeable wrangling, more like an amiable and lively conversation with someone whom you respect and who respects you; someone who is interested in what you have to say, but will not agree with your claims just because you state them; someone who wants to hear your reasons for believing your claims and also wants to hear answers to their questions.
  • We also know that whatever it is we think, it is never the entire truth. Our conclusions are partial, incomplete, and always subject to challenge. So we write in a way that allows others to test our reasoning: we present our best thinking as a series of claims, reasons, and responses to imagined challenges, so that readers can see not only what we think, but whether they ought to agree.
  • And that's all an argument is--not wrangling, but a serious and focused conversation among people who are intensely interested in getting to the bottom of things cooperatively.
  • So your first step in writing an assigned paper occurs well before you begin writing: You must know what your instructor expects.
  • Start by looking carefully at the words of the assignment.

  • When most of your instructors ask what the point of your paper is, they have in mind something different. By "point" or "claim" (the words are virtually synonymous with thesis), they will more often mean the most important sentence that you wrote in your essay, a sentence that appears on the page, in black in white; words that you can point to, underline, send on a postcard; a sentence that sums up the most important thing you want to say as a result of your reading, thinking, research, and writing. In that sense, you might state the point of your paper as "Well, I want to show/prove/claim/argue/demonstrate (any of those words will serve to introduce the point) that

    "Though Falstaff seems to play the role of Hal's father, he is, in fact, acting more like a younger brother who . . . .""

    If you include in your paper what appears after I want to prove that, then that's the point of your paper, its main claim that the rest of your paper supports.

  • A good point or claim typically has several key characteristics: it says something significant about what you have read, something that helps you and your readers understand it better; it says something that is not obvious, something that your reader didn't already know; it is at least mildly contestable, something that no one would agree with just by reading it; it asserts something that you can plausibly support in five pages, not something that would require a book.
  • Kate B. Pok-Carabalona on 22 Nov 11
     
    great guide to college writing- print out and give out to students.
Lee-Anne Patterson

Essay Map - 3 views

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writing essay resources Essay Map web2.0 review

shared by Lee-Anne Patterson on 30 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 30 Mar 09
     
    tool to visually plan out essay - then get it printed out
  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 30 Mar 09
     
    very cool - shame it isn't embeddable though
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