Facilitators: Joy Seybold, Nancy Miller
Recorder: Mona Quinn
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Based on our current expectations in writing for graduating high school students….
- What should our expectations be?
- Who should be setting them?
- How should this be accomplished?
Discussion notes
Significant Issues From Morning Discussions
- Students must be flexible thinkers/writers who can use appropriate vocabulary, tone, format, and genre for the audience and purpose.
- Students must be able to discern and evaluate information and apply it in their own writing.
- Students need to be able to understand and use conventions of writing to communicate successfully in technical and abstract writing, including understanding audience, purpose, etc., and technical writing such as graphics and multi-media.
- Students must see writing as a way of generating, managing, and, evaluating information.
Transcript
- Where do our expectations come from?
- Education Round Table
- Garner business perspective
- What should our expectations be?
- Relevance of writing is important to help students’ engagement
- Involve parents and family
- Because writing and reading literacy are changing we need to broaden ideas of conventions.
- Must integrate various uses of technology into learning
- how to generate, manage and evaluate it.
- Address issues of social justice and the notion of the writer as a member of a democratic society.
- Writing across the curriculum
- How do we address these issues?
- Break bad habits such as the 5 paragraph essay.
- Delve into issues such as
- When are grammar and convention transferred from the worksheet to the written copy?
- What is good grammar?
- Have the rules changed?
- Recognize that on demand writing is important.
- Must encourage the use of relevant assignments.
- Use technology that students are interested in and comfortable with.
- Use technology to support entire writing process.
- Involve the family in education; become more welcoming.
- Know skills of students from first day;
- Find ways to do this despite that class size presents problems.
- Students must accept ownership of their own learning and their goals.
- Acknowledge the importance of the teachable moment for instruction of writing.
- Reconnect students with reading.
- Need professional development for teaching reading and writing so teachers can understand what is relevant.
- More options for textbook choice.
- “Core” guide for all content teachers.
SOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS - PRESENTED
- Relevance: Begin where students are…
- Regarding the use of technologies
- Use technology more to help students work through writing process
- Regarding their experiences and interests
- Connect Reading and Writing through materials that are relevant to the students
- Provide choices
- Explore options to textbooks
- Value modeling by others
- Articulation and communication – among and between teachers, students, universities, parents and community members
- Professional development for all
- Involve community
- Provide time
- Find and use neutral site
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