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- Advertisement Analysis Project
This classroom application of authentic, problem-based learning was presented by Tami Sloane Thrasher, English instructor at Piedmont Community College at the North Carolina Conference of English Instructors' Fall Conference 2001 at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on October 29, 2001. This presentation provides practical examples of collaborative activities for ENG 111 using real-world writing. Assignments are designed to integrate higher-order abilities (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) and multiple assessment strategies.
- American Diploma Project Resources
The American Diploma Project is a nationwide initiative to upgrade America's public schools. This page informs North Carolina Community College instructors of the implications of this project for English courses and also provides important resources for student learning outcomes and assessment.
- Authentic Learning Theory and Applications
Tami Sloane Thrasher, English instructor at Piedmont Community College, presented a demonstration of authentic learning, or problem-based learning, at the North Carolina Conference of English Instructors' Fall Conference 2001 at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on October 29, 2001. She provided learning theory and practical examples of collaborative activities for ENG 111 using real-world writing. She designs all her assignments to integrate higher-order abilities (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) and multiple assessment strategies.
- Climbing Mt. Sinai in English
"A wall of mountains rose around us, black as night itself, their tops only faint lines against a paler sky. Somewhere in the darkness was Mt. Sinai, which we would climb at midnight, hoping to reach the summit by sunrise." So begins this essay in which the author attempts to climb Mt. Sinai...but discovers on the way that her English composition class is in her pack.
- Communication Competencies
This article was published in the Fall 1995 issue of the North Carolina Conference of English Instructors' CEI Newsletter. It was submitted to the chief academic officer and the department chair or lead English instructor in each of the 58 community colleges in North Carolina. The information was used by writing teams who developed course syllabi for the Common Course Library. This document is published now by CEI to provide guidance and suggestions for instructors. Instructors may find the competencies and acquisition and assessment strategies useful as they develop course objectives and assignments for their reading, composition, literature, humanities, and speech classes.
- Communication Skills in the Workplace
This article is reprinted from the March 1996 issue of the North Carolina Conference of English Instructors' CEI Newsletter. Instructors may wish to use this document to motivate their students to develop effective communication skills.
- Communication, Film, Literature, and History Resources
"Resources for My Course" by Professor Catherine Lavender, director of the American Studies Program at CSI/CUNY provides several valuable resources for students and teachers of communication film, literature, and history. Especially useful are research projects, including using film and novels as historical artifacts.
- Foreign Languages and Higher Education
"Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World" is a research study with recommendations for transforming the languages curriculum published by the Modern Language Association in July 2007 to promote its new policy on the teaching of foreign languages.
- The Freshman Course Novel
"The Freshman Course Novel: An All-campus Read to Create Community" by JoAnn Buck explains how Guilford Technical Community College created community within its college and the Greater Greensboro Area through involving students and community in the study of one novel and its author.
- I Hate English
Do you remember your first days as an English teacher? Can you remember the first time you heard a student say, "I hate English"? Award-winning author and English Professor Barbara Cole remembers her early days as an English teacher and remembers also why she became an English teacher in the first place.
- Statement of Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing
In October 1989, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) adopted this statement on commitment to educational quality, professional standards that promote quality education (tenure-line faculty, graduate students, part-time faculty, and full-time temporary faculty), and teaching conditions necessary for quality education.
- Throw Your Students Out of the Classroom!
This teaching assignment was presented by Clemellyn H. Welch, lead English instructor at Central Carolina Community College at the North Carolina Conference of English Instructors' Fall Conference 2001 at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on October 29, 2001. The presentation is a three-phase English 114 assignment during which students move beyond the college setting to explore their chosen careers. The project requires students to accomplish multiple tasks: setting up and conducting an interview, preparing a written report of interview results, and making an oral presentation of these results.
- Writing Guides with Exercises
These guides provide students with instruction and practices exercises in grammar, punctuation, and composition.
- WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition
This statement, adopted by the Council of Writing Program Administrators in April 2000, "describes the common knowledge, skills, and attitudes sought by first-year composition programs in American postsecondary education."
Updated September 10, 2008 |
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