PEER RESPONSE GROUPS IN ACTION: WRITING TOGETHER IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

By Karen Spear

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867093188
• ISBN13: 9780867093186
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

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Modern Writing/Peer Response Groups

Karen Spear's Peer Response Groups in Action is a must read for all educators. Addressing the issue of how to implement collaborative learning English classes, Spear takes you through a journey of collaborative learning experiences. Nine selected teachers count the experiences of their response groups in classroom situations that other teachers can relate to. First, the book is about teaching teachers to teach writing with peer response groups. Spear believes it is a must for these teachers to have regular conferences with other teachers to discuss progress and problems and together explore for solutions.This helps the teacher from feeling isolated,a problem caused by her administrators and peers not understanding how response groups work. An important point is that teachers must be contiuously inventing better methods or assignments that work. While students are skeptical about giving negative feedback, they learn to give each other ideas of how to make a paper better. They learn to be responsible, when the teacher decenters herself from the class, freeing her to work on areas that need improvement. Peer response produces writers out of non-writers.Although, writing with response groups is complex, it is an integral part of teaching writing.Ideas on designing assignments for collaborative classes is one reason to get this book.Even better you get the insights applied by the teachers whose experience compose the stories in the book. All academic administrators should take time to read this book, it will help them understand and support the implementation of response groups. Spear's compostion of stories can make a difference for teachers who have given up teaching with response groups. Spear writing response groups develop authentic writers.