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The Case for Acceleration in Developmental English and Math - 0 views

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    On Faculty Inquiry Network. This page links to an article written by Katie Hern and Myra Snell for RP Group's statewide newsletter, Perspectives. The article, Exponential Attrition and the Promise of Acceleration, June 2010, argues that attrition can be guaranteed in long developmental sequences and presents evidence that one semester, open-access courses are a way to increase student completion rates in college-level English and math.
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Flipping the switch: code-switching from text speak to Standard English - 0 views

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    By Kristen Hawley Turner. English Journal, vol 98 (5), 2009, pp. 60-65. Rather than looking at African-American English (as many of our other code_switching resources do), Turner looks at how texting has affected students' writing and how teachers can employ code-switching to help.
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Teaching standard English in urban classrooms - 0 views

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    From Forum Network of PBS and NPR. This forum features Rebecca Wheeler, Catherine Snow, Rachel Swords, and Ronald Ferguson discussing how to "build on students' existing knowledge of everyday English." (1 hr 16 mins).
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How to Teach English to At-Risk College Students - 0 views

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    By Melissa E. Lee, from the Do Your Job Better column of The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13 2011. Lee, an adjunct English instructor at the State University of New York at Canton, offers suggestions to support students who she describes as "at-risk." Her three over-arching ideas are: provide structure in the classroom, show the connection between classroom learning and the real world, and make your students accountable.
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    Lee's ideas call to mind such GSCC themes as scaffolding, contextualization, caring, college transition, structure, self-efficacy. There are interesting comments, as well.
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Making the journey : being and becoming a teacher of English language arts - 2 views

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    By Leila Christenbury (2006), Third Edition, Boynton-Cook/Heinemann, Portsmouth.
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    R.A. requested article from this book on Questioning Circles.
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Save The Words - 0 views

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    A website, developed by the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary, devoted to saving words that are rarely used and therefore risk losing a place in the dictionary.
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"My goldfish name is Scaley": there's nothing to correct / codeswitch to teach standard... - 0 views

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    By Rebecca Wheeler, published in Doubletake/Points of Entry, spring 2006. Looks at how to use the idea of "codeswitch" to differentiate between formal (standard) and informal English, rather than teaching students that their (informal) language is "wrong." With bibliography.
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Code-switching: teaching standard English in urban classrooms - 0 views

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    By Rebecca S. Wheeler, Rachel Swords. This is a marketing blurb describing the text, available for sale through National Council of Teachers of English. 2006. Sample chapter and table of contents available as PDF.
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Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar - 0 views

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    By Patrick Hartwell, in College English, vol 47 (2), Feb 1985, pp. 105-127.
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    This article, recommended by RO in the Coffee Klatch, in a discussion about the most effective ways of teaching grammar.
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Weaver, Constance - 0 views

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    Dr. Constance (Connie) Weaver is a professor of English at Western Michigan University. In the coffeeklatch, she was attributed with popularizing the idea, "grammar needs to be taught in context." Librarians have not verified the quote or determined from which book it might have been taken.
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What is "college-level" writing? - 0 views

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    Edited by Patrick Sullivan and Howard B. Tinberg, published by the National Council of Teachers of English, 2006.
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    JEC recommends a shared definition of basic writing, and that this book might help to start that discussion.
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When Capable Students Fail: The Academic Sustainability Gap - 0 views

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    Results from a classroom research project focused on why author Katie Hern had only a 55% pass rate in three sections of her developmental English course.
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Developing an Outline - 0 views

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    Part of Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), this document helps guide students through the process of developing an outline.
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    LH used this guide with her students, week 9, semester 4.
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Narrative Essay - 0 views

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    Part of the OWL site, within the multi-part Essay Writing section. Contributors Jack Baker and Allen Brizee; last edited 3/23/11.
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    TS used this resource in her classroom description, week 6, semester 3.
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A troubleshooting guide for writers : strategies and process - 0 views

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    By Barbara Fine Clouse; published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010 (6th edition).
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    DS recommends this book to help developmental English students dispel the myth that they are bad writers and will always be bad writers.
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Statement on Class Size and Teacher Workload: College - 0 views

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    A guideline statement published by National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 1987. From the statement: "Faculty members must be given adequate time to fulfill their responsibility to their students, their departments, their institutions, their profession, the larger community, and to themselves. Without that time, they cannot teach effectively."
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    This came up in a ped circle discussion, late in the semester, regarding workoad and how the demands of college employment tend to get in the way of the reflection, collaborative work, and intellectual development of individual instructors.
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The Tutoring and Learning Center at Sinclair Community College - 0 views

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    This student resource provides professional tutoring in the subject areas of English grammar and writing, reading text marking and note taking strategies, and basic math.
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Facts on the teaching of grammar - 0 views

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    By Constance Weaver, prepared for the Michigan English Language Arts Framework project, 1995. In C. Weaver, L. Gillmeister-Krause, & G. Vento-Zogby, Creating Support for Effective Literacy Education (Heinemann, 1996). May be copied.
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    The thread (Editing, GULP!) referenced the work of Braddock and Hillocks on grammar. This factsheet nicely summarizes their arguments, as well as others who have followed a similar path.
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The Development of Writing Abilities (11-18). - 0 views

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    By Britton, James, and others, published by the National Council of Teachers of English, 1975. This is considered Britton's landmark work. In it, according to the abstract, he looks at over 2000 samples of writing done by 11-18 year olds.
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Community College of Baltimore County's accelerated learning program - 1 views

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    Overview of the study being conducted by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University. "In this study, CCRC will conduct multivariate analyses of the effects of participating in ALP on student pass rates in English 101 as well as on other measures, including rates of persistence and passing college-level courses in subjects other than English."
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