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encourages contact between students and faculty, develops reciprocity and cooperation among students, encourages active learning, gives prompt feedback, emphasizes time on task, communicates high expectations, and respects diverse talents and ways of learning. .
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encourages contact between students and faculty, • develops reciprocity and cooperation among students, • encourages active learning, • gives prompt feedback, • emphasizes time on task, • communicates high expectations, and • respects diverse talents and ways of learning.
Play the Believing Game Visualize success. While composing, ignore negative thoughts (such as, I don’t have enough time, this is a stupid idea, I’ll never get this published).
Place Emphasis on the Students’ Writing • Be creative & flexible. Acknowledge diverse learning styles and composing processes.
Create a Community for Writers • Create a climate of trust, respect, honesty, and standards. • Guide/Grade peer review • Model editing, collaboration, revision…… • Meet individual writers at level of need • Conference, individualized feedback • Be respectful… • Balancing coaching w/ refereeing/judging • Don’t play grading games
Establish Clear/Rigorous Expectations • Transparent Assignments/Rubrics • Maintain a reasonable schedule; help keep students on task.
Responding to Writing • Provide prompt, thoughtful, prioritized responses to papers (Time on Task: 15/minutes/essay) • Integrate rubric/evaluation criteria throughout writing process • Try different approaches (conferences, email, track changes, wikis, printed rubrics, etc.) • Get feedback from students regarding usefulness of responses • Have time following distribution of papers/comments (next class meeting) to discuss evaluatoins • Don’t serve as co-author/copyeditor