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ISBN-10: 0205619622
ISBN-13: 9780205619627
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2009
Format: DVD
Published: 06/25/2008
Suggested retail price: $40.00
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The first part of this professional development DVD for Composition teachers offers stimulating insights from renowned rhetoricians on seven topics that represent current approaches and issues in the composition classroom. The second part provides practical teaching advice from experienced adjuncts and graduate teaching assistants. Visit www.pearsoncomppro.com to view clips from the DVD.
Part 1, “Trends,” features interviews with twenty-six rhetoricians on seven current approaches and issues in the discipline: argument, assessment, inquiry, portfolios, visual rhetoric, writing across the curriculum, and writing from sources. Each topic segment is five to ten minutes long and weaves together insights from recognized experts. These practical segments move from definitions and theory to enlightening comments about how each approach “looks” in the interviewee’s own classroom. Each segment ends with one or more assignments that viewers can try in their own courses and also provides resources for further study.
Part 2, “Teaching,” features interviews with experienced adjuncts and graduate teaching assistants who offer real-world adviceon critical topics like creating a syllabus, designing assignments, crafting in-class activities, and responding to student writing. In ”General Wisdom,” teachers talk candidly about what they wish they had known before they started teaching–the one idea or piece of advice that they feel all new instructors should have when they walk into their first composition classroom.
Part One of this DVD was developed for those who are interested in hearing multiple perspectives on important discipline approaches, and may prove especially valuable for those whose training might have been in literature rather than composition. Part Two was developed to give practical, real-world advice to those who are new to the classroom, as well as to experienced teachers looking for fresh ideas.
Segments from Trends & Teaching could be used during TA or faculty trainings, in courses on teaching Composition, as discussion starters in faculty development workshops, or on an individual basis by TA’s, part-time, or full-time faculty who are interested in learning new ideas they can apply to their Composition course.
Trends contributors include Linda Adler-Kassner, Christine Alfano, Bruce Ballenger, Shane Borrowman, Hugh Burns, Davida Charney, Bill Condon, Michael Day, Robert DiYanni, Ann Dobyns, Lester Faigley, Laura Gurak, Deborah Holdstein, Tom Huckin, Christine Hult, Rick Johnson-Sheehan, David Jolliffe, Joe Law, Frank Madden, Janice Neulieb, Alyssa O’Brien; Robert Root, Chuck Schuster, Bob Schwegler, Harvey Weiner, and Ed White.
Teaching contributors include Sara Bartlett, Theotis Callender, Patricia A. Chapman, Elizabeth Crews, Ondra Krouse Dismukes, Nancy Haiduck, John Kofron, Muriel Lange, Sarah Moon, Jillian Quinn, Steve Rosenstein, Steven M. Sams, Shelina Shariff-Zia, and Jessica Walker.
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Pearson extends special thanks to the Trends & Teaching Advisory Board: Bryan Bardine, University of Dayton; Shanti Bruce, Nova Southeastern University; Thomas Dow, Moraine Valley Community College; Marcia Selva, Sacramento City College; Jill Heney and Stacie Rice, Boise State University.
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Segments from Trends & Teaching could be used in the following ways:
o during TA or faculty trainings
o in courses on teaching composition
o as discussion starters in faculty development workshops
o viewed on an individual basis by TA’s, part-time or full-time faculty who are interested in learning new ideas they can apply to their composition course.
-
Part 1, “Trends,” features interviews with twenty-six rhetoricians on seven current topics in the discipline.
o Topics: argument, assessment, inquiry, portfolios, visual rhetoric, writing across the curriculum and writing from sources.
o Each topic segment is five to ten minutes in length and weaves together insights from experts on that topic.
o Each segment moves from the theory behind the trend and why it is important, to how the interviewee uses this trend in their own classroom.
o Segments include an assignment or assignments based on the trend that teachers viewing the DVD could try in their course.
o Includes resources for further study.
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Part One of this DVD was developed for those who want to hear multiple perspectives on important discipline approaches and for those who are teaching Composition but whose training might have been outside the discipline.
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Trends contributors include Linda Adler-Kassner, Christine Alfano, Bruce Ballenger, Shane Borrowman, Hugh Burns, Davida Charney, Bill Condon, Michael Day, Robert DiYanni, Ann Dobyns, Lester Faigley, Laura Gurak, Deborah Holdstein, Tom Huckin, Christine Hult, Rick Johnson-Sheehan, David Jolliffe, Joe Law, Frank Madden, Janice Neulieb, Alyssa O’Brien; Robert Root, Chuck Schuster, Bob Schwegler, Harvey Weiner, Ed White.
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Part II, “Teaching,” features interviews with experienced adjuncts and graduate teaching assistants who give real-world advice from their own experience “in the trenches.”
o Topics: designing a syllabus, designing assignments, in-class activities, responding to student writing, and general wisdom — the one thing that particular teacher wished they had know before stepping into the composition classroom.
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Part II was developed to give practical, real-world advice to those who are new to the classroom as well as to experienced teachers looking for fresh ideas.
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Teaching contributors: include Sara Bartlett, Theotis Callender, Patricia A. Chapman, Elizabeth Crews, Ondra Krouse Dismukes, Nancy Haiduck, John Kofron, Muriel Lange, Sarah Moon, Jillian Quinn, Steve Rosenstein, Steven M. Sams, Shelina Shariff-Zia, and Jessica Walker
Part I: Trends
- Argument
- Assessment
- Inquiry
- Portfolios
- Visual Rhetoric
- Writing Across the Curriculum
- Writing from Sources
Part II: Teaching
- Creating a Syllabus
- Designing Assignments
- Crafting In-Class Activities
- Managing the Classroom
- Responding to Student Papers
- General Wisdom
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