The Writing Connection: Bridging the Gap Between High School and College
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Passaic County Community College’s “Connections” program to work with area high school teachers across disciplines to create varied opportunities in writing-to-learn rather than the traditional learning-to-write approach that might apply only to the English classroom.
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The Writing Connection: Bridging the Gap Between High School and College
- 3. – Continuing the connections
- 6. – with 3 satellite campuses – Past Year - 9% increase; 36% online growth – 64.4% Basic Skills – 20.0% ESL – 15.6% College Level
- 7. – A.A. Humanities 16.5% – A.A.S. Nurse Education 13.9% – A.S. Business / Accounting 7.6% – A.A. Criminal Justice 6.8% – A.S. Human Services 6.5% – One or two writing intensive courses – College Writing Exam
- 9. • 5 Year, Dept of Ed. Title V Grant to improve writing – Build college-level writing center – Design 20 writing intensive GenEd courses across disciplines (40 course sections) – Incorporate writing, critical thinking & information literacy – ePortfolios • Year 3: Connecting with county high schools and Year 4: area four-year colleges
- 10. Sending county high schools 4-year colleges where PCCC students often matriculate Connecting to other writing programs and writing centers, especially at community colleges The Connections Dual enrollment program
- 16. – audience, purpose, point of view
- 19. – In many places, technology unavailable due to budget or unavailable to students at home – Restrictions on websites that can be accessed within schools – Faculty were still interested in incorporating more technology into their classes – They were creative in coming up with solutions or end-runs around technology problems
- 20. – Invitations sent to school emails may not have been received. – For the second institute: Faculty were unable to test links on campus to gauge access capabilities. – Many responded to mailed invitations. – The links are still provided to them (on the LibGuide) for use when they get back to school. – Some faculty had tried similar things and were able to guess at access capabilities
- 22. – In some cases, only hard copies were available – Some brought no copies and instead described the materials
- 24. 1. Teachers as writers 2. Using prompts (visual, audio…) 3. Critical thinking activities 4. Portfolios and reflection in the classroom 5. Sharing college level writing and materials – Technology for writing (blogs, portfolios, podcasts…) – Sample materials and lesson plans, especially for writing assignments