Successful High School Writing Center Building the Best Program with Your Students

Name: Successful High School Writing Center Building the Best Program with Your Students
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ISBN: 9780807752524

ISBN-10: 0807752525

ISBN-13: 9780807752524

Edition: 2012

Authors: Dawn Fels, Jennifer Wells, Christine Sleeter

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This book highlights the work of talented writing center teachers who share practices and lessons learned from today's most important high school writing centers. The authors offer innovative methods for secondary educators who deal with adolescent literacy, English language learners, new literacies, embedded professional development, and differentiated instruction. The Successful High School Writing Center demonstrates how writing centers help school communities grapple with the realities that come with literacy education. Depicting real-life writing centers as leaders in literacy education, the accounts presented will enrich the work of secondary educators, writing tutors, and student…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 11/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction




The Promise of Change with One-to-One Instruction




Change I Can See: A High School English Teacher's Perspective of the Writing Center's Impact on Bilingual, Hispanic Students




The Idea of a High School Writing Center




Building a Peer Tutoring Program




Revising and Rewriting Roles: Exploring the Challenges of Peer Tutors in a High School Writing Center




The Tutors Speak: Current and Former Tutors' Reflections




Integrating Reading into the High School Writing Center




Connecting Pre-Service Teachers with High School Writers




What State Auditors Taught Me About Writing Center Evaluation




Tutor Recommendation Form



Tutor Interview Form



Tutor Contract



Teachers and Students as Researchers: Literacy-based, Collaborative Projects for Writing Center Evaluation



Words of Wisdom from Writing Center Educators


About the Contributors


Index