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Summary of School Visit (To be completed jointly by each visiting team.) School: Visiting team: Date: Please answer the following summary questions about your reactions to the curriculum and instruction across disciplines in the school you have just visited. Take as much space as you need to respond to each question. Then return your responses together with the various interview schedules and questionnaires to your CELA liaison. 1. Please briefly describe the school context: The community it serves, its special strengths, and any special challenges it faces. 2. To what extent is the teaching of writing, or writing and literacy, a school-wide concern? Is there any history of special initiatives in writing within the disciplines or writing across the curriculum? 3. Please describe how the English teachers approach the teaching of writing. Is there a department wide consensus, or obvious variations from teacher to teacher? 4. What is the balance between workshop or process approaches and writing-on-demand? 5. What is the relationship between the program in writing and the program in literature? 6. Please describe the attitudes and approaches of teachers in other subject areas toward the teaching of writing. What particular genres or special purposes for writing were apparent in interviews or observations? Is writing within the discipline addressed systematically, sporadically, or not at all in social studies, science, and math? 82 82
7. What unusual approaches or methods were discovered? How well were these working? 8. What is the influence, if any, of high stakes assessments on the teaching of writing or the kinds of tasks assigned, in English and in other subjects? 9. To what extent have new technologies been assimilated into English and other subject areas? Are students expected/ allowed to use word processors for their work? The internet? Other software? Was technology apparent across subject areas, or more fully integrated into some disciplines than into others? 10. To what extent does the general institutional context support or hinder the program in English? 83 83
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Appendix 3. Instruments: Year 3 Stu
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Year 1: Analysis of Existing Nation
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Table 1. Middle School Demographics
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At the end of the school year, all
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Table 5. Types of Writing Required
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Table 6. Types of Writing Required
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