Due to a planned power outage, our services will be reduced today (June 15) starting at 8:30am PDT until the work is complete. We apologize for the inconvenience.
ERIC ED471408: Teaching Writing in High School and College: Conversations and Collaborations.
Addressing what teachers can do to prepare high school students to write effectively in college, this book presents 15 narratives and studies suggesting that secondary-postsecondary partnerships and exchanges can significantly improve students' ability to succeed at college-level writing tasks. Essays in section I, Trading Places, are: (1) "Scriptless in High School: Teaching Dreams of a College Professor" (Don Daiker); and (2) "A Teacher Exchange That Changed Teachers" (Ron Fortune, Claire Lamonica, Janice Neuleib). Essays in Section II, Modeling Collaboration for Preservice Teachers, are: (3) "It Takes More Than a Consortium" (Marguerite Quintelli-Neary); (4) "You've Got Priority Mail: 'The Single Most Valuable Activity of Our Semester'" (Nancy S. Tucker and Leah A. Zuidema); and (5) "High School Students Meet 'College Standards'" (Thomas C. Thompson, Betsy Wilson, and the Students in Education 101). Essays in Section III, What Is "College Writing" Anyway?, are: (6) "What We Talk about When We Talk about College Writing" (Herb Budden, Mary B. Nicolini, Stephen L. Fox, and Stuart Greene); and (7) "Productively Contentious Discussions: Teachers Talk about the Teaching of Writing" (Stephen Lafer, Launi Gardner, Richard Hoadley, Terry DeBarger, and April Sawyer). Essays in Section IV, High School to College: How Smooth a Transition?, are: (8) "The Fantasy of the 'Seamless Transition'" (Janet Alsup and Michael Bernard-Donals); and (9) "Talking about the Transition: Dialogues between High School and University Teachers" (Wendy Strachan). Essays in Section V, Starting College in High School, are: (10) "The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and Area High Schools Strike a Partnership" (Susan Kapanke and Melissa Westemeier); (11) "Creating a Connected Space: Mentoring in the Zone of Proximal Development" (Kim Jaxon); and (12) "'Why Do I Have to Take Remedial English?' A Collaborative Model to Solve a National Problem" (Chris Jennings and Jane Hunn). Essays in Section VI, Conversations about Collaboration, are: (13) "Crossing Levels: The Dynamics of K-16 Teachers' Collaboration" (Diana Callahan, Charles Moran, Mary-Ann DeVita Palmieri, and Bruce M. Penniman); (14) "Sleeping with the Enemy: Communiques from a Pedagogical Marriage" (Richard E. Brantley and Diana R. Brantley); and (15) "Getting Out of the Way" (Mary Baron and Denise Rambach). (RS)
