A few ideas to ponder from Ch. 13 Best Practices; how do these statements connect with your experiences; with our class readings?
- Writing should be an integral part of instruction because WRITING REVEALS THINKING (p. 267).
- Writing takes time and patience (p. 267).
- Best practices in writing assessment begin with an authentic task, where purpose and audience are clear and meaningful, where support and feedback are readily available, and where the final product has academic value for the student (p.269).
- Student writing provides information about both content and process, about what students have learned and how well they can communicate it (p. 272).
- What a writer needs most is words (p. 279).
- Develop and draft, review and revise, polish and publish (p. 280).
- Students can demonstrate understanding by transforming resources and experience into a genuine composition-the building of something new from a collection of basic elements (p. 283).
- TEACHING STUDENTS TO BECOME INDEPENDENT AND RESPONSIBLE LEARNERS IS DIFFICULT, BUT ADDRESSING THIS CHALLENGE IS CRITICAL FOR REFORM OF SCHOOLING IN OUR COUNTRY (p. 284).
- Do your writing assessments include rubrics that gauge students’ capacities to transform the substance of the topic?
- Do you believe that assessment should be an integral ongoing part of our instruction? Should assessment inform our instruction?
Please review the NCTE and IRA Standards for the English Language Arts
Do you notice any parallels to multigenre writing?
Please feel free to check out Rubistar and Writing Fix. What do you think?
