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Shifting Scaffolds: Building Intellective Capacity Through Student Choice
Get PDFIn an effort to meet the wide-ranging capacities and even wider-ranging levels of student motivation in ELA classrooms, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers are tasked with examining current instructional practices through the lenses of efficacy and engagement. Disengagement, worsened by an over-reliance on prescriptive structures like the five-paragraph essay, hampers students\u27 growth and independence. This essay explores how scaffolding, particularly through student choice, can nurture students\u27 intellective capacity and foster genuine engagement with literacy. By embracing student interests and providing opportunities for authentic analysis, educators can empower students to navigate complex texts and develop nuanced thinking skills essential for success beyond the classroom. Through small shifts in instructional practices, teachers can unlock students\u27 potential and cultivate confident, independent thinkers and writers poised for academic advancement
Engaging Students in Writing with Nonfiction Social Justice Texts
Get PDFGetting students engaged in writing in a high school setting is usually challenging and often elicits complaints of boredom. However, the utilization of texts that focus on the experiences of marginalized people and that educates about social injustices can get students interested. When students read texts that inform them about such issues that they might otherwise never hear about and when they are invited to share their views through writing, the door to learning to become critical thinkers and global citizens is opened for them
The Learning Center: Changing Your Writing Center to a Learning Center
Get PDFThe purpose of this article is to reimagine the Writing Center not as an island removed from the disciplines or resource extending from the English Department, but as the heart of the secondary school. One way to do this is to recognize the need for secondary school writing centers to engage the academic community comprised of the five core disciplines—English, Math, Science, Social Studies, Foreign Language—through advocacy and shared responsibility by means of creating and engaging through agency by utilizing the honor societies in the various disciplines through the local example of the Woodbridge Senior High School’s development of the Viking Learning Center. By engaging and incorporating the honor societies of each discipline, the Writing Center Director can both subversively integrate pedagogical and ideological practices into teacher curriculums and help to counteract the mythological narrative of the Writing Center Director as a sole sufferer. The integration of the honor societies as allies in the Writing Center help share the responsibility of running the center, engage the academic community in writing instruction through inclusion, and train tutors to incorporate writing within their conferences
Bridgewater College, Photograph of an unidentified athlete running, undated
No full textArchival photograph from Bridgewater College Special Collectionshttps://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/track_and_field_photos/1042/thumbnail.jp
Finding the Perfect Purple: An Exploration of Glaze Making and Chemical Safety in the Pottery Studio
Get PDFThis project was undertaken as an IDS-100H course linkage between ceramics and chemistry. Through time spent reviewing literature and time in the studio, a project was developed that allowed the application of technical skills of each discipline in a creative fashion. The creative focus of the project was to find a suitable purple glaze to utilize on a previously thrown pottery collection. During the project techniques in glaze making were explored. Over 25 glazes were tested, and two firing techniques were explored. Additionally, safety within the pottery studio was increased through aspects such as the development of an MSDS, and the application of hazard labels to containers in the studio
Bridgewater College, Bob Anderson (photographer), Photograph of tennis equipment, early 1970s
No full textArchival photograph from Bridgewater College Special Collectionshttps://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/tennis_photos/1022/thumbnail.jp
Bridgewater College, Action photograph of a tennis player, undated
No full textArchival photograph from Bridgewater College Special Collectionshttps://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/tennis_photos/1007/thumbnail.jp