Responding to learners’ needs :
Responding to learners’ needs What do you do when you feel students are not fulfilling their potential?
How do you make those responsible for establishing the course requirements understand that your ideas for change are worthwhile?
The motivation for the innovation :
The motivation for the innovation Reasons to create a new course curriculum
Improve motivation
Develop fluent & clear written language (quality of work)
Challenges in changing the curriculum
Changing established guidelines
Requirements being met
How to change the curriculum
Slide 4:
The choice of one novel
Alternative to the anthology
Sustained content
The case for fluency-oriented writing assignments
Which should come first, fluency or accuracy?
compromise
The Curriculum Context :
The Curriculum Context The Students
Priority of writing
Who are the students?
30 immigrants: 21 women and 9 men
The Course
Role of writing
Familiarity
Interest
difficulty
The Process of Adapting the Course :
The Process of Adapting the Course Selecting a Novel
Relevant to the students
The Alienist
Online Discussion Board
Everyone gets a chance to speak
Sense of community
Double-Entry Journals
Encourages engagement with the reading
Provides excellent practice
The Research Paper
Interest had been identified prior to paper
Conclusion and Critical Insights :
Conclusion and Critical Insights All course requirements were met
Students were more engaged
Problems
Still debate on whether errors or ideas or more important
Students are off to the right start.