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Direct linkWhitney, Anne – Research in the Teaching of English, 2008
Teachers who have participated in Summer Institutes of the National Writing Project (NWP) have often claimed "it changed my life." What do teachers mean when they say this? What does it mean to "transform" in a professional development setting, and what might researchers and professional development providers gain from an…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Improvement, Professional Development, Institutes (Training Programs)
Peer reviewedGylys, Beth – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1990
Presents a case study focusing on a gifted student writer whose shyness and strong personal commitment to her writing is not well suited to the atmosphere of peer writing workshops. (MG)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Student Characteristics, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
Download full textDyson, Anne Haas – 1991
A case study examined assumptions of current written language pedagogies, particularly the links between oral performance, literacy pedagogy, and the use of the explicit, analytic language valued in school. The subject, a young African-American child enrolled in an urban K/1 classroom, used school writing activities and the music of language to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
Peer reviewedChapman, Marilyn L. – Written Communication, 1994
Describes the writing and drawing produced by a group of first-grade students during "writing workshop" time throughout the school year. Considers whether genres emerge in ways analogous to other aspects of writing development. Suggests that genre may indeed be emergent. (HB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Emergent Literacy, English Instruction, Grade 1
Rosaen, Cheryl L.; Lindquist, Barbara – 1992
The research reported in this paper is a case study of one student's learning in a writers' workshop where two teacher-researchers were developing new curriculum and instructional practices. The case study was developed out of a larger qualitative study in which 47 fifth-grade students' growth as writers was studied over a 1-year period as they…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Longitudinal Studies
McCarthey, Sarah J. – 1993
This paper uses two case studies to explore the risk and opportunities of writing from students' personal experiences. Anthony, a high-achieving, Hispanic fifth-grader, and Anita, a low-achieving, African-American sixth-grader, participated in a writing workshop in which students kept notebooks of their personal experiences and reflections. The…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students
Padak, Nancy D., Ed.; And Others – 1992
This 1992 yearbook presents the following 26 articles: "Tensions between Numbers and Knowing: A Study of Changes in Assessment during Implementation of Literature-Based Reading Instruction" (P. L. Scharer); "Story Reading in Daycare: A Help or a Hindrance?" (F. K. Hurley); "Preservice Teachers' Reminiscences of Positive and Negative Reading…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergent Literacy
