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Resources Preservice Teachers Use To Think About Student Writing, Leah A. Zuidema, James E. Fredricksen
Resources Preservice Teachers Use To Think About Student Writing, Leah A. Zuidema, James E. Fredricksen
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This article identifies five categories of resources that preservice teachers drew on as they considered student writing and planned their own approaches to assessing and teaching writing. Identifying these resources helps us better understand how beginning writing teachers think about student writing—and better understand mismatches that commonly occur between what teacher educators teach and what new teachers actually do. Our study builds on literature that considers how writing teachers are prepared, extends research about how preservice teachers use what they learn,and adds layers of detail to literature about the resources that beginning teachers draw upon to aid and support them …
At-Risk Writer Program That Benefits Both The Students And The Educators, Bill Elgersma, Luke Hawley
At-Risk Writer Program That Benefits Both The Students And The Educators, Bill Elgersma, Luke Hawley
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This session presented a small-college writing workshop model centered on increasing at-risk writers' persistence and motivation as they improved their writing through the use of pre-service teachers. An important component of the presentation was the one-on-one interactions that occurred and the value of these to both parties.