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2007/08 Block Feeds on KET ED
- Block Feed: Programs 101-104 Program Details
- 3 hours, 59 minutes
- Tuesday, December 4 at 4:00 pm on KETED
- Tuesday, April 15 at 2:00 am on KETED
- Block Feed: Programs 105-108 Program Details
- 3 hours, 59 minutes
- Tuesday, December 11 at 4:00 pm on KETED
- Wednesday, April 16 at 2:00 am on KETED
Episodes Included in These Block Feeds
- 101. Workshop 1. First Steps
- An overview of the first steps teachers should take when working with student writers. Educators, researchers, and writers talk about specific goals they share with their students, recognizing the local, state, and national standards as a floor—not a ceiling—for their work. They also express the benefits student writers find as they grow as writers, communicators, and thinkers. Author Judith Ortiz Cofer leads the featured teachers in a writer's workshop activity focused on word triggers and their place in the processes of writing. 59 minutes.
- 102. Workshop 2. A Shared Path
- What kind of atmosphere do students need to grow as writers? The featured teachers talk about the physical set-up of a writing community, the importance of reading in a writing classroom, and their own roles as co-writers in the community. In a writer's workshop, the teachers react in writing to Cofer's assignment: hiding and revealing through language. 59 minutes.
- 103. Workshop 3. Different Audiences
- Examines the "self" most writers address as well as the demands student writers encounter in addressing other audiences, from fellow students in language arts and other disciplines to those encountered in college and the job world. Classroom experiences show how writing community members think about, plan around, and address audience expectations, and the teachers tackle the same theme for different audiences in a writer's workshop. 59 minutes.
- 104. Workshop 4. Different Purposes
- The teachers examine the relationship between purpose and the form or genre selected to express a writer's ideas through classroom examples of students working in many genres, including persuasive writing, memoir, and poetry. Their analysis underscores what students can learn by examining commonalities and differences among genres and the value of multigenre projects. In the writer's workshop, the teachers select a genre or a combination of genres to share vivid events from their own lives. 59 minutes.
- 105. Workshop 5. Usage and Mechanics
- Focuses on key questions of grammar and mechanics: When should student writers and reviewers of student work pay attention to usage and mechanics? Does teaching grammar in context really work? Why should these things matter? Grammar experts analyze its role in communication, and Cofer challenges the teachers to use only one sentence form to tell a story. 59 minutes.
- 106. Workshop 6. Providing Feedback on Student Writing
- Student writing demands reaction—from both teachers and other members of the writing community. But what kind of interaction is most powerful and rewarding? The teachers, researchers, and authors talk about and demonstrate effective ways to conference and comment on student work and direct other members of the writing community to do the same. While offering great tips on structuring peer review, Cofer directs the teachers as they comment on one another's work. 59 minutes.
- 107. Workshop 7. Learning from Professional Writers
- What can young writers learn from those who make their living through writing? Teachers show how professional works by favorite writers can be seeds for engaging classroom activities, while authors talk about their own writing processes and writing heroes. Featured writers include Maxine Hong Kingston, Patrick Jennings, Margo Jefferson, Christopher Meyers, Amy Tan, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, and Tracy Mack. In the workshop, Cofer guides the teachers through an exercise triggered by a line from one of her favorite poets, Richard Hugo. 59 minutes.
- 108. Workshop 8. Writing in the 21st Century
- Evolving technology has expanded the tools available to all writers and has opened new venues—with new requirements—for their work. The teachers show some beginning steps they have taken to integrate technology into their instruction and their professional lives and talk about the benefits and challenges presented by evolving media. Cofer leads them in reflecting on the effects of technology in their own lives. 59 minutes.
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