After spending twelve years teaching English Language Arts at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, my adventures in education took me beyond the classroom and into the world of professional development. I am currently a Curriculum Coordinator for Erie 1 BOCES in New York State, and I spend my days in service to hundreds of teachers who inspire, challenge, and teach me more than I could ever hope to teach them.
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Harry Barfoot
// Aug 10, 2007 at 4:59 pm
I suggest you also look at the Doug Reeves research on writing and positive impact on other curricular test scores. He descirbes the high correlation between various measurment of writing frequency with scores on math, science, socidal studies test scores. Some of the high correlations exist for any two subjects areas. He also supports the use of technology tools such as the MY Access! instructional writing program from us. We provide instand, accurate feedback, in multiple languages, and allow teachers to have 10X-20X more wriing in the classroom. They spend more time teaching and less time grading, contirubitng very positively to their own motivation, that of the students, and test score gains. Erie 1 personnel have actually seen this program somewhere.
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