Reflective Writing and Life-Career Planning: Extending the Learning in a Learning Community Model

Autor/inn/en	Nownes, Nicholas; Stebleton, Michael
Titel	Reflective Writing and Life-Career Planning: Extending the Learning in a Learning Community Model
Quelle	In: Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 38 (2010) 2, S.118-131 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0098-6291
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Community Colleges; College Faculty; College English; English Teachers; Teaching Experience; Career Planning; Learning Activities; Interprofessional Relationship; Communities of Practice; College Instruction; Writing (Composition); Reflection; Student Participation; Learner Engagement; Academic Achievement; Values; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Fakultät; English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Englischunterricht; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Karriereplanung; Lernaktivität; Community; Hochschullehre; Schreibübung; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Schulleistung; Wertbegriff
Abstract	This essay recounts the authors' experiences as community college faculty members in a learning community (LC) linking first-year composition with a class in life-career planning and development. The authors begin with a learning community story shared recently over drinks with a group of community college English teachers. They use the story to make two related yet distinct points. The first point is that learning community models are significant to community college teaching and, even more specifically, to the teaching of English. The second point the authors draw from a teacher's experiences: a small but growing body of research suggests that the teacher's experience with LCs is more common than LC advocates had suspected. Students "enjoy" learning communities. The authors outline five recommendations and lessons learned for English faculty members as well as suggestions for those who might be planning learning communities at their respective campuses. (Contains 2 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10