Leaping from the 5 Paragraph without a Net
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Leaping from the 5 Paragraph without a Net Presentation to the NJWA 2016 by Drexel Professors: Anne Erickson, Marshall Warfield, Valerie Booth, and Sheila Sandapen
Breadth of College Experience Teacher-student-text relationships Diverse students and faculty (changing nature of both populations) Rhetorical approaches, competing stakeholders, finances Portfolios and reflective writing AP, Dual-credit, classmate churn, etc. Modes? Program-specific approaches, rhet/comp, or set theory? Base writing on literature? On writing for their major? Supports vary: tutors, special needs, Standards may vary based on academic rigor
Trends in FYWPs The work is not harder, but faster paced (Wells). There are fewer touch points with students in college. Increasingly, classes are online or hybrid, requiring more self-discipline. Learning Management Systems
Helicopter Teaching Steven Conn’s 2014 blog about the Rise of the Helicopter Teacher” in the Chronicle of Higher Education http: //chronicle. com/blogs/conversation/2014/08/05/the-rise-of-the-helicopter-teacher/ Jennifer Trainor’s “Helicopter Teaching and the Challenge of Mythrules” on Challenge Succes. org http: //challengesuccess. org/Blog/Ideas. That. Challenge/tabid/605/Post/3622/Helicopter. Teaching-and-the-Challenge-of-Mythrules-em-by-Jennifer-Trainor-em Berlin Fang offers this position on Faculty Focus to discuss the scaffolds that can be removed to enable students more independence. http: //www. facultyfocus. com/articles/teaching-careers/how-to-avoid-being-a-helicopterprofessor/
Self-Structured and Self- Disciplined Approaches Methods for scaffolding student learning (ie Rubrics) and the emphasis on the 5 paragraph theme provide helicopter-teaching dependency. Moving from the 5 -Paragraph to the “It Depends” response. “Ideas are less important than the structures they build to hold them” (Van. De. Weghe). Students express that college papers are elusive, like a game without rules (Sullivan) or that teachers have “secret expectations” they withhold (Wells).
Digital Development & Communication More realistic to future writing (Salitrynski, Sauvie). Students are wired and we must help them not only comprehend them but also learn how to use these technologies (Welch) Composing occurs in different modalities and technologies (NCTE). Students need to be able to use technology and digital media strategically and capably. Google Jockeying, New Media Technolgy’s disruptive forces on communication
Kinetic and potential energy: jumping frogs answer key
Whenever jon delivers a newspaper to the zapanta house
I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark
Hyperbole exmaples
Leaping the chasm
What example does a leaping frog represent? *
I'm a black ocean leaping and wide figurative language
A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky
