The Successful High School Writing Center - Building the Best Program With Your Students

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 writers in socially significant ways.

About the author

Dawn Fels teaches composition and directs The Writing Center at George Mason University. Jennifer Wells is the director of The Reading-Writing Center at Florida State University.

Summary

Highlighting the work of talented writing center teachers who share practices and lessons learned from today’s most important high school writing centers, this book offers innovative methods for secondary educators who deal with adolescent literacy, English language learners, new literacies, embedded professional development, and differentiated instruction.

Product details

• Authors: Dawn Fels, Dawn (EDT)/ Wells Fels, Jennifer Wells
• Assisted by: Donna E Alvermann (Editor), Dawn Fels (Editor), Celia Genishi (Editor), Jennifer Wells (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2011
• EAN: 9780807752524
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5252-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Language and Literacy (Paperba; Teachers College Press: Language & Literacy; Language and Literacy (Paperba
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works