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Timothy
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- Lancaster, PA
- United States
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National Day on Writing
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Since using Penny's book, Write Beside Them with my students in my Teaching Writing course, I have now bared my soul more with my Freshman Composition students and have shared with them some of my painful writing. I remembered a tragic event in 19...
This past semester I taught preservice English teachers a course, Teaching Writing. We used Kittle's text, Write Beside Them as our main text and from the beginning of the course, the students wrote all kinds of genres and gave each other feedback...
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- Affiliation
- Millersville University of Pennsylvania
- Position
- Assistant Professor of English
- NCTE Member?
- Yes
- How long have you been a member of NCTE?
- 5 years
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Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 10:11pm on April 26, 2009,
James Bucky Carter said…
- Sweet!
- At 2:58pm on April 26, 2009,
Penny Kittle said…
- Thanks for your kind words about my book! I appreciate knowing that it is helpful to you and your students. I wish I could revise it, of course... I have so much new thinking to add to what is there, but I think that will always be true with publishing. The work changes us and our writing can't always keep up. I hope we'll meet at a conference somewhere...
- At 1:59pm on April 26, 2009,
James Bucky Carter said…
- TX is fine. We're already having days in the 90s here in the desert. We have 3 more weeks before we wrap up here, so I'm jealous of you being on break so soon! I'll have a few weeks before teaching a YA Lit class during Summer II, so I'm eager to have a little time for reading, revamping, and relaxing coming up. Say, will you be in Philly? I got in by the skin of my teeth, but I'll be there. :)
- At 9:23am on April 26, 2009,
James Bucky Carter said…
- Hi there, Dr. Shea! Hope all is well in the PA!
- At 6:42pm on September 26, 2008,
Jan Spohn said… - glad to see fellow Pennsylvanians on the ning! busy season with our Oct conference in Lancaster on the 10th and 11th (www.pctela.org) then readying for San Antonio. Hope our paths will cross - if not look for me on the ning!
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"The existing standardized tests are so incredibly bogus that it is the height of impropriety for NCTE and other so-called professional organizations to pretend that tests exist "to identify learning needs, inform instruction, and monitor student ...
So far there has been no response from NCTE in any form since the postings on the website of the Washington Post. The bottom line remains:
NCTE has approved of a plan that calls for
(1) Explicit, systematic teaching of literacy as the only path.
(...
Approximately 8 million students in grades 4-12 are reading below grade level. Limited literacy skills cause 3,000 students to drop out of high school every day.
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