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Inside Stories: Stories Within, Personal Narrative In The Classroom, Carol Block
Inside Stories: Stories Within, Personal Narrative In The Classroom, Carol Block
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This discussion of a project conducted in 2004 involved two ESOL Middle School Students. The project used personal narrative and autobiographical elements to produce booklets based on these students’ experiences which created a bridge into the academic community, for themselves and their families. This paper discusses the elements that made this project successful and the reasons that personal narrative is so powerful and meaningful for all students and, most especially, second language learners.
A Peer Assisted Approach To Assessment And Evaluation In A Korean University, John Steere Wendel
A Peer Assisted Approach To Assessment And Evaluation In A Korean University, John Steere Wendel
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This paper details collaborative professional development with a focus on classroom assessment and evaluation of Korean University students. The observations, opinions, and conclusions reported herein are based on committee work carried out by the author at Dongguk University during the fall semester of 2007. Members of the committee were first asked to define areas of assessment and evaluation of students that either interested them, or that they found problematic. Through methods described in this paper (journaling, committee meetings, materials sharing, observation and feedback), each team member had opportunities to actively reflect on their own practices, to both articulate and challenge …