College Roundtables - DE.03
What Lies Between the Lines? Early College and Other Reform Movements
2:30pm-5:15pm
Chair, Jude C. Okpala
Howard Community College
Columbia, Maryland
In a highly interactive double session roundtable, eight NCTE high school, two-year and four year college leaders will engage in a critical discussion of early college adn other high school/college innovations based on individual research, experiences in program adminitration, and NCTE survey research results.
Roundtable Leaders:
Andy Anderson, Sandie Barnhouse, Eric Bateman, Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Henry Kiernan, Beatrice Mendez-Newman, Wanda Porter, Dickie Selfe, Diane Waff, and Keith Younker
College Celebration
7:00 PM
Anne Ruggles Gere
Anne Ruggles Gere is a Gertrude Buck Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Sweetland Writing Center and serves as co-chair of the Joint Ph.D. in English and Education. She also directs NCTE’s Squire Office of Policy Research. Recipient of a number of awards, including the University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, she has published 10 books and over 50 articles on literacy-related topics including writing groups, extracurricular literacy practices, and high-stakes writing tests. She is a former Chair of CCCC and a past president of NCTE; she currently serves on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association.
College/CCCC Luncheon
12:30 PM
Lorene Cary
Lorene Cary is a respected writer, dedicated educator, cultural leader and social activist. She is the author of Free! (2006), a collection of real-life Underground Railroad stories for young readers; the novels The Price of a Child a(1995) and Pride (1998); and the bestselling memoir Black Ice (1992); and is currently at work on a fifth book, Blackface. A Senior Lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, Cary is the founder of Art Sanctuary, a nonprofit organization that uses the power of African American art to transform individuals and to unite and enrich groups of people. For her writing and arts activism, Cary was award her city's highest civic honor, the Philadelphia Award. Her essays have appeared in Newsweek, Time, Essence, Mirabella, O, and other publications. She is president of the Union Benevolent Society. Cary lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the Rev. Robert C. Smith, and daughers Laura and Zoe.
| Session: A.59 - 9:30 am to 10:45 am 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Literature | | Level(s): College/University | |
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Title: East Asian Literature: Teaching Poetry and Novels
(Sponsoring Group: Two-Year College English Association)
TWO-YEAR COLLEGE STRAND The panel will focus on the East Asian meditative poetry of HanShan and Ko Un and the contemporary Chinese novel and illustrate ways to integrate the works into World Literature courses.
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| Presenter: | Jewell Mayberry, Pfeiffer University, North Carolina, 'The Novel Lessons of the Contemporary Chinese Novel' |
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| Session: B.28 - 11:00 am to 12:15 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Literature | | Level(s): Elementary (K-5), Middle (6-8), College/University | | Strand(s): Rainbow Strand |
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Title: Jane Addams: Inspiration and Model for Reading Social Justice Literature
Jane Addams was a model for compassionate thinking and social action. Four teachers draw on her legacy to challenge readers to move beyond enriched personal response. They describe a theoretical model, college level pedagogy and research on adolescent girls’ readings of Jane Addams Children’s Book Award winners and honor books.
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| Presenter: | Donna Barkman, College of New Rochelle, New York , 'Stories Are Not Enough' | | Susan C. Griffith, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan , 'Jane Addams: Passionate Response and Purposeful Reflection' |
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| Session: B.58 - 11:00 am to 12:15 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Literature | | Level(s): College/University | |
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Title: Teaching Approaches to College Literature
This session provides new critical approaches to teaching literature, namely process pedagogy, soulful literary criticism. The panelists will show the teaching philosophies behind these approaches.
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| Presenter: | Christian Blum, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York , 'Reinventing the Hook: Encouraging a Soulful Approach to Literary Studies as a Stimulus for (more) | | Jo-Anne Kerr, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana , 'Reading More Than I See: Process Pedagogy in the General College Literature Course' |
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| Session: B.61 - 11:00 am to 12:15 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Policy, Politics, and Social Justice | | Level(s): College/University | |
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Title: Teaching the Politics of Voice in Southern Women Writers
(Sponsoring Group: Two-Year College English Association)
TWO-YEAR COLLEGE STRAND The session will focus on race, gender, class, and cultural issues of classic southern women writers.
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| Session: C.02 - 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Writing | | Level(s): Secondary (9-12), College/University | |
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Title: NCTE Author Strand--College Credit for Writing in High School: The 'Taking Care of' Business
The coeditors and authors of College Credit for Writing in High School: The 'Taking Care of' Business will discuss what is at stake for the teaching of writing as institutions and policymakers push for more integration of high school and college courses. They will address the rationale for early completion of requirements through AP and dual-credit courses, possible benefits and detriments, and several models that work better than others.
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| Presenter: | Christine Farris, Indiana University, Bloomington; Kristine Hansen, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah | | Reactor / Respondent: | Thomas Leahey, Indiana University, Bloomington |
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| Session: C.05 - 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Other | | Level(s): Middle (6-8), Secondary (9-12) | |
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Title: The English Classroom at Science Leadership Academy
(Sponsoring Group: Sponsored by the Commission on Media)
In this session, teachers, administrators, and students from this award-winning,visionary high school will demonstrate various progressive learning strategies that don't necessarily involve technology. The Science Leadership Academy provides a rigorous, inquiry-driven, project-based college-preparatory curriculum emphasizing the core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, and reflection.
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| Chair: | William Kist, Kent State University, Ohio |
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| Session: C.15 - 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: 21st-Century Literacy | | Level(s): General (proposals of interest at all instructional levels) | |
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Title: 'Pictures and Conversations': Teaching Strategies that Engage Readers and Writers through Visualization
Asking students to work imaginatively to render ideas in visual form changes the way they view texts and their relationships to them. In this presentation, teachers from a variety of settings—from elementary to college classrooms—demonstrate specific classroom interventions they have developed to assist students in deepening their interactions with texts. Each strategy incorporates the idea of visualization.
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| Presenter: | Glorianne Bradshaw, Red River Valley Writing Project, Grand Forks, North Dakota , please supply speech title to cwagner@ncte.org | | Christine Aikens Wolfe, Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, Pittsburgh , please supply speech title to cwagner@ncte.org |
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| Session: C.41 - 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Teacher Education | | Level(s): Secondary (9-12) | | Strand(s): CEE Strand |
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Title: Trading Places: Re-Learning Teaching from Where We Learned It
Presenters will share what they learned from a fall, 2008, semester teaching exchange. They will discuss insights from their exchange experience which will better prepare future teachers for the classroom, and current students for college-level writing.
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| Chair: | Chris Crowe, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah | | Presenter: | Tony De Paolo, Logan High School, La Crosse, Wisconsin , 'Lessons from the Other Side of the Desk: What My Alma Mater Taught Me the Second Time' | | Grant T. Smith, Viterbo University, La Crosse, Wisconsin , please supply speech title to cwagner@ncte.org |
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| Session: C.58 - 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Panel | | Room: | Topic: Other | | Level(s): College/University | |
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Title: The Challenges and Opportunities in Using Web 2.0 in College Composition Classroom
This session examines the challenges and opportunities in using technology and Web 2.0 tools in college composition classroom.
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| Presenter: | Chris Gerben, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , 'Design By Default: How Word and Web 2.0 Settings and Templates Are Affecting College Composition' | | Mary Lourdes Silva, University of California, Santa Barbara , 'From Google to Pegasus: A Case Study of the Online Navigational Practices and Writing (more) |
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| Session: CC.01 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm 11/20/2009 | Format: Conversation | | Room: | Topic: Other | | Level(s): College/University | |
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Title: College Celebration--Anne Ruggles Gere
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| Keynote Speaker: | Anne Ruggles Gere, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
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