ERIC ED471408: Teaching Writing in High School and College: Conversations and Collaborations.

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Thompson, Thomas C., Ed.
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Teaching Writing in High School and College: Conversations
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and Collaborations.
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL.
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*College Bound Students; College School Cooperation; *High
DESCRIPTORS
Schools; *Higher Education; Mentors; Preservice Teacher
Education; *Teacher Collaboration; Teacher Exchange Programs;
*Writing Instruction
ABSTRACT
Addressing what teachers can do to prepare high school
15 narratives
students to write effectively in college, this book presents
partnerships and
and studies suggesting that secondary-postsecondary
at college-
exchanges can significantly improve students' ability to succeed
level writing tasks. Essays in section I, Trading Places, are:
(1)
Professor" (Don
"Scriptless in High School: Teaching Dreams of a College
"A Teacher Exchange That Changed Teachers" (Ron Fortune,
Daiker); and (2)
Modeling
Claire Lamonica, Janice Neuleib). Essays in Section II,
"It Takes More Than a
Collaboration for Preservice Teachers, are:
(3)
"You've Got Priority Mail: 'The
Consortium" (Marguerite Quintelli-Neary);
(4)
Tucker and Leah A.
Single Most Valuable Activity of Our Semester'" (Nancy S.
"High School Students Meet 'College Standards'" (Thomas C.
Zuidema); and (5)
101). Essays in Section
Thompson, Betsy Wilson, and the Students in Education
(6) "What We Talk about When We
III, What Is "College Writing" Anyway?, are:
Stephen L. Fox,
Talk about College Writing" (Herb Budden, Mary B. Nicolini,
Discussions: Teachers
and Stuart Greene); and (7) "Productively Contentious
Gardner, Richard
Talk about the Teaching of Writing" (Stephen Lafer, Launi
Section IV, High School
Hoadley, Terry DeBarger, and April Sawyer). Essays in
"The Fantasy of the 'Seamless
to College: How Smooth a Transition?, are:
(8)
(9) "Talking about
Transition'" (Janet Alsup and Michael Bernard-Donals); and
Teachers" (Wendy
the Transition: Dialogues between High School and University
School, are:
(10)
Strachan). Essays in Section V, Starting College in High
"The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and Area High Schools Strike a
(11) "Creating a
Partnership" (Susan Kapanke and Melissa Westemeier);
(Kim Jaxon);
Connected Space: Mentoring in the Zone of Proximal Development"
Model to
and (12) "'Why Do I Have to Take Remedial English?' A Collaborative
in Section
Solve a National Problem" (Chris Jennings and Jane Hunn). Essays
(13) "Crossing Levels: The
VI, Conversations about Collaboration, are:
Dynamics of K-16 Teachers' Collaboration" (Diana Callahan, Charles Moran,
(14) "Sl,eeping with the
Mary-Ann DeVita Palmieri, and Bruce M. Penniman);
and
Enemy: Communiques from a Pedagogical Marriage" (Richard E. Brantley
and Denise
Diana R. Brantley); and (15) "Getting Out of the Way" (Mary Baron
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Teaching Writing in
High School and College
NCTE Editorial Board: Jacqueline Bryant, Kermit Campbell, Willie Mae
Crews, Colleen Fairbanks, Andrea Lunsford, Gerald R. Og lan, Jackie
Swensson, Gail Wood, Zarina M. Hock, Chair,
ex officio, Kent Williamson,
ex officio, Peter Feely, ex officio
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Teaching Writing in
High School and College
Conversations and Collaborations
Edited by
Thomas C. Thompson
The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina
National Council of Teachers of English
1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801-1096
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
: conversations and
Teaching writing in high school and college
collaborations / edited by Thomas C. Thompson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8141-0975-6 (pbk.)
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Contents
Preface
ix
I. Trading Places
1
1. Script less in High School: Teaching Dreams of a College
Professor
3
Don Daiker
2. A Teacher Exchange That Changed Teachers
13
Ron Fortune, Claire Lamonica, and Janice Neuleib
II. Modeling Collaboration for Preservice Teachers
21
3. It Takes More Than a Consortium
23
Marguerite Quintelli-Neary
4. You've Got Priority Mail: "The Single Most Valuable
Activity of Our Semester"
40
Nancy S. Tucker and Leah A. Zuidema
5. High School Students Meet "College Standards"
57
Thomas C. Thompson, Betsy Wilson, and the Students
in Education 101
III. What Is "College Writing," Anyway?
71
6. What We Talk about When We Talk about College Writing
73
Herb Budden, Mary B. Nicolini, Stephen L. Fox, and
Stuart Greene
7. Productively Contentious Discussions: Teachers Talk
about the Teaching of Writing
94
Stephen Lafer, Laurie Gardner, Richard Hoadley,
Terry De Barger, and April Sawyer
IV. High School to College: How Smooth a Transition?
113
8. The Fantasy of the "Seamless Transition"
115
Janet Alsup and Michael Bernard-Donals
viii
Contents
9. Talking about the Transition: Dialogues between High
School and University Teachers
136
Wendy Strachan
V. Starting College in High School
151
10. The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and Area High
Schools Strike a Partnership
153
Susan Kapanke and Melissa Westemeier
11. Creating a Connected Space: Mentoring in the Zone of
Proximal Development
169
Kim Jaxon
12. "Why Do I Have to Take Remedial English?" A
Collaborative Model to Solve a National Problem
182
Chris Jennings and Jane Hunn
VI. Conversations about Collaboration
201
13. Crossing Levels: The Dynamics of K-16 Teachers'
Collaboration
203
Diana Callahan, Charles Moran, Mary-Ann De Vita
Palmieri, and Bruce M. Penniman
14. Sleeping with the Enemy: Communiqués from a
Pedagogical Marriage
214
Richard E. Brantley and Diana R. Brantley
15. Getting Out of the Way
221
Mary Baron and Denise Rambach
Editor
235
Contributors
237