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Dreaming Forward
Martha captures the spirit and vibrancy of our community in the most authentic, inspiring and thought provoking manner possible. By telling stories of struggle, perserverance and triumph, she breathes life into everyday joy human beings have at their fingertips when we listen to and value our life stories. Juan Salgado, M.U.P. President and CEO, Instituto del Progreso Latino This book inarguably pieces together the true spirit of the Mexican-American community, their struggles, their sense of family and their resolve to realize their dreams. Santiago Silva, Ph.D. LPC-S Clinical Professor (Ret.), University of Texas-Pan American In Dreaming Forward: Latino Voices Enhance the Mosaic, Martha Casazza not only tells the stories and describes the struggles of Latino students, she also provides a context that gives meaning to these stories and struggles. The themes that result from these stories represent concepts that will benefit every educator. Hunter Boylan, Ph.D. Director, National Center for Developmental Education, Appalachian State University
Teach Yourself How to Learn
Following up on her acclaimed Teach Students How to Learn, that describes teaching strategies to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success, Saundra McGuire here presents these "secrets" direct to students. Her message is that "Any student can use simple, straightforward strategies to start making A’s in their courses and enjoy a lifetime of deep, effective learning." Beginning with explaining how expectations about learning, and the study efforts required, differ between college and secondary school, the author introduces her readers, through the concept of metacognition, to the importance and powerful consequences of understanding themselves as learners. This framew...
Fragile Courage
It can be a struggle for anyone aligning bold dreams with family expectations... Melina is no stranger to that struggle. Being raised in a strong, family-centered Mexican American culture, she has dreams of discovering the world beyond her neighborhood's limited boundaries. Melina loves her family but has decided to break from her family's cultural norms and attend college several hours away in hopes of a different life than she's used to. But trying to balance family with her own ambition is about to break her in two. Margot is facing different family expectations as an only child of extremely successful parents, but has the same desire to seek out her own path, even if that path is considered unacceptable. She is realizing that trying to be someone she's not, or driving toward a goal that's not her own, is not only unsatisfying, but is compelling her to make decisions that will affect her relationship with her family, and the world she wants to be a part of. These two very different lives surprisingly collide at first resisting each other, but then discovering together the real meaning of courage.
Digital Reading and Writing in Composition Studies
As digital reading has become more productive and active, the lines between reading and writing become more blurred. This book offers both an exploration of collaborative reading and pedagogical strategies for teaching reading and writing that reflect the realities of digital literacies. This edited scholarly collection offers strategies for teaching reading and writing that highlight the possibilities, opportunities, and complexities of digital literacies. Part 1 explores reading and writing that happen digitally and offers frameworks for thinking about this process. Part 2 focuses on strategies for the classroom by applying reading theories, design principles, and rhetorical concepts to in...
The State of Developmental Education
The State of Developmental Education is the first book to provide a thorough, comparative picture of how developmental education is carried out at higher education institutions and investigate how different state-level policies and priorities change the availability, types, and quality of developmental education available.
Learning and Development
"The authors pull off an impressive double. They synthesize an enormous amount of relevant research on learning and development while also making clear the connections this research has for practice. Written in a helpful and accessible style, and full of case studies, applications, instruments, and vignettes of practice, the book will be an invaluable resource for college teachers at any level."--Stephen Brookfield, Distinguished Professor, University of St. Thomas "Effectively integrating the perspectives of a director of a university learning assistance center and a scholar in the area of developmental education, Silverman and Casazza have written an important book. It should be read by an...
Reaching All Writers
Reaching All Writers brings together decades of writing studies experience, research, and scholarship to help organize first-year writing courses around inclusive teaching practices and foundational concepts that support disciplinary learning for all college writers, including students who have been excluded from more selective higher-education institutions. Using threshold concepts and transfer as a foundation, the authors provide an invaluable resource for multiple contexts: instructors working off the tenure track and/or at multiple institutions; two-year college programs without a writing program administrator; and writing program graduate teaching assistant training courses. Each chapte...
Community Colleges and the Access Effect
Taking on the cherished principle that community colleges should be open to all students with a high school education, Scherer and Anson argue that open access policies and lenient federal financial aid laws harm students and present the case for raising the minimum requirements for community college entry.
華文閱讀教學策略研究
內容簡介 臺灣目前在閱讀相關的研究上，較少針對華文文本的特殊性進行深度探討。華文文本的組成受漢字表意系統影響，與西方的表音系統形成之文本有其根本上之殊異。本書兼容東方與西方、並採古典與現代，結合理論與實用，達到「體」、「用」之結合，這是本書的寫作主軸。在目前可見的諸多閱讀策略中，難免有重出反覆、疊床架屋之處。作者以為策略與策略之間應該是具有系統性的層遞關係，而且依從文本的屬性，並根據認知心理及大腦運思過程，將策略的擬定分成形式類與內容類，從基礎而進階，彼此環環相扣，依序遞進。文中所論述的七種閱讀策略可以處理現代華文文本閱讀時的多數問題，它們依序是︰「解碼策略」、「劃線策略」、「具象化策略」、「提問策略」、「推論策略」、「摘要策略」、「綜合比較策略」。這七者在內在思維及外在組織的層次性、順序性及連貫性，具有關聯性，它們可以個別獨立施行，但彼此又交互影響增補。
