Peer Coaching for Adolescent Writers

Susan Ruckdeschel
Peer Coaching for Adolescent Writers
November 2009 | 192 pages | Corwin
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"Susan Ruckdeschel provides a clear rationale for having student writers coach each other as they revise their work. Her explanations, examples, practical tips, and reproducibles enable teachers to use the process successfully in their own classrooms. This peer review process is straightforward, engaging, and flexible, and aims to develop students' independence as writers."
—Denise Nessel, Education Consultant and Mentor
National Urban Alliance for Effective Education

Help students develop their "inner editor" through the power of peer coaching!

Students who understand how to analyze the writing of others can use those skills to improve their own writing. Peer coaching is a collaborative process that engages learners in student-to-student interactions to help them become more proficient writers. Susan Ruckdeschel provides a concise road map for using peer coaching to help secondary students clarify their writing goals and deepen their understanding of effective writing.

Aligned with state and IRA/NCTE standards, Peer Coaching for Adolescent Writers shows teachers how to teach students to articulate a purpose for their writing, formulate questions for feedback, provide constructive comments to their peers, and incorporate the critiques of their peers into their writing. Designed for ease of use, this book offers:

  • Clear, step-by-step tips for implementing the peer coaching process
  • Ideas for using peer coaching across content areas
  • An appendix of ready-to-go reproducible forms, including scripts, checklists, rubrics, and more
  • Transcripts, photos, and classroom examples throughout
  • Adaptations for students with special needs and English language learners

By developing their writing and editing skills through the peer review process, students can become effective communicators both in and out of the classroom.

Contents

List of Figures

List of Figures

Foreword

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction: Helping Adolescents Take Responsibility for Their Writing

Introduction: Helping Adolescents Take Responsibility for Their Writing

Part I. The Model

  • 1. Student Roles and Steps of Peer Coaching: What They Look Like in the Classroom
  • 2. Silent Peer Coaching and Peer Coaching as Questioning
  • 3. Scaffolding Responsibility to Adolescent Writers
  • 4. Facilitating and Assessing the Program

Part II. The Model in Action

  • 5. Step One: Establishing Goals and Issues
  • 6. Step Two: Summarizing, Reading, and Listening
  • 7. Step Three: Giving and Using Feedback

Part III. 36 Reproducible Tools for Implementation and Assessment

  • Conclusion: Helping Adolescent Writers Find Their Voices

References

References

Index

Index

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"Susan Ruckdeschel provides a clear rationale for having student writers coach each other as they revise their work. Her explanations, examples, practical tips, and reproducibles enable teachers to use the process successfully in their own classrooms. This peer review process is straightforward, engaging, and flexible, and aims to develop students' independence as writers."
—Denise Nessel, Education Consultant and Mentor
National Urban Alliance for Effective Education

Help students develop their "inner editor" through the power of peer coaching!

Students who understand how to analyze the writing of others can use those skills to improve their own writing. Peer coaching is a collaborative process that engages learners in student-to-student interactions to help them become more proficient writers. Susan Ruckdeschel provides a concise road map for using peer coaching to help secondary students clarify their writing goals and deepen their understanding of effective writing.

Aligned with state and IRA/NCTE standards, Peer Coaching for Adolescent Writers shows teachers how to teach students to articulate a purpose for their writing, formulate questions for feedback, provide constructive comments to their peers, and incorporate the critiques of their peers into their writing. Designed for ease of use, this book offers:

  • Clear, step-by-step tips for implementing the peer coaching process
  • Ideas for using peer coaching across content areas
  • An appendix of ready-to-go reproducible forms, including scripts, checklists, rubrics, and more
  • Transcripts, photos, and classroom examples throughout
  • Adaptations for students with special needs and English language learners

By developing their writing and editing skills through the peer review process, students can become effective communicators both in and out of the classroom.

Contents

List of Figures

List of Figures

Foreword

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction: Helping Adolescents Take Responsibility for Their Writing

Introduction: Helping Adolescents Take Responsibility for Their Writing

Part I. The Model

  • 1. Student Roles and Steps of Peer Coaching: What They Look Like in the Classroom
  • 2. Silent Peer Coaching and Peer Coaching as Questioning
  • 3. Scaffolding Responsibility to Adolescent Writers
  • 4. Facilitating and Assessing the Program

Part II. The Model in Action

  • 5. Step One: Establishing Goals and Issues
  • 6. Step Two: Summarizing, Reading, and Listening
  • 7. Step Three: Giving and Using Feedback

Part III. 36 Reproducible Tools for Implementation and Assessment

  • Conclusion: Helping Adolescent Writers Find Their Voices

References

References

Index

Index

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"Susan Ruckdeschel provides a clear rationale for having student writers coach each other as they revise their work. Her explanations, examples, practical tips, and reproducibles enable teachers to use the process successfully in their own classrooms. This peer review process is straightforward, engaging, and flexible, and aims to develop students' independence as writers."
—Denise Nessel, Education Consultant and Mentor
National Urban Alliance for Effective Education

Help students develop their "inner editor" through the power of peer coaching!

Students who understand how to analyze the writing of others can use those skills to improve their own writing. Peer coaching is a collaborative process that engages learners in student-to-student interactions to help them become more proficient writers. Susan Ruckdeschel provides a concise road map for using peer coaching to help secondary students clarify their writing goals and deepen their understanding of effective writing.

Aligned with state and IRA/NCTE standards, Peer Coaching for Adolescent Writers shows teachers how to teach students to articulate a purpose for their writing, formulate questions for feedback, provide constructive comments to their peers, and incorporate the critiques of their peers into their writing. Designed for ease of use, this book offers:

  • Clear, step-by-step tips for implementing the peer coaching process
  • Ideas for using peer coaching across content areas
  • An appendix of ready-to-go reproducible forms, including scripts, checklists, rubrics, and more
  • Transcripts, photos, and classroom examples throughout
  • Adaptations for students with special needs and English language learners

By developing their writing and editing skills through the peer review process, students can become effective communicators both in and out of the classroom.


Table Of Contents:

  • List of Figures
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction: Helping Adolescents Take Responsibility for Their Writing
  • Part I. The Model
  • 1. Student Roles and Steps of Peer Coaching: What They Look Like in the Classroom
  • 2. Silent Peer Coaching and Peer Coaching as Questioning
  • 3. Scaffolding Responsibility to Adolescent Writers
  • 4. Facilitating and Assessing the Program
  • Part II. The Model in Action
  • 5. Step One: Establishing Goals and Issues
  • 6. Step Two: Summarizing, Reading, and Listening
  • 7. Step Three: Giving and Using Feedback
  • Part III. 36 Reproducible Tools for Implementation and Assessment
  • Conclusion: Helping Adolescent Writers Find Their Voices
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"Ruckdeschel’s protocol for peer coaching is an excellent tool for improving student writing, speaking, and listening skills, as well as promoting positive peer social interaction. As a middle school English teacher, I am very interested in incorporating the peer coaching protocol into my own classroom writing instruction."
Tracy Taylor Callard, English Language Arts Teacher, Wichita Public Schools, KS
"Ruckdeschel has done an exceptional job of breaking down the steps of the peer coaching process. She has anticipated readers’ questions and offers a thorough handling of the topic."
Barbara Smith Chalou, Professor, University of Maine at Presque Isle
"Teachers need to think about teaching writing with this sort of process. There is so much more to writing than 4 or 5 paragraphs strung together with correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. If teachers knew a better way to run their writing class, they would do it. This book might be the fuse that starts the fire."
Denise Carlson, Third-Grade Teacher, Heartland Area Education Agency, Story City, IA
"Helps teachers be better writing instructors and make writing an engaging and meaningful activity in their classrooms."
David Callaway, Eighth-Grade Language Arts Teacher, Highlands Ranch, CO
“Susan Ruckdeschel provides a clear rationale for having student writers coach each other as they revise their work. Her explanations, examples, practical tips, and reproducibles enable teachers to use the process successfully in their own classrooms. This peer review process is straightforward, engaging, and flexible, and aims to develop students’ independence as writers.”
Denise Nessel, Education Consultant and Mentor, National Urban Alliance for Effective Education

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