Multidisciplinary Collaboration by Karen Weller Swanson

Author:Karen Weller Swanson [Swanson, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118980927
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Caroline M. Brackette is an assistant professor of counseling at Mercer University.

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This chapter will describe the evolution of a study of graduate education students’ needs as writers. Recognizing that many of my students—who would soon be teaching children to write—struggled with various aspects of writing, I began a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) study to examine (a) my students’ perceptions of themselves as writers and their self-efficacy as teachers of writing and (b) their responses (explicit and implicit in their subsequent writing) to instruction in academic and creative writing. Using a modification of Brookfield's (1995) critical incident questionnaire, students in nine classes reported their experiences of certain written assignments, including their ideas about what would help them improve the quality of their writing. After conducting initial coding of those questionnaires, I share them with each class, along with plans for modifying instruction in response. This process serves multiple purposes related to instruction, ongoing assessment, expanding students’ understandings, and contributing to my formal scholarship. The intentionality of the research process, combined with the sharing of what I'm learning with my professional community, distinguishes this work from the more intuitively responsive teaching I have always attempted to do.

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