Planning with Purpose

Anna J. Small Roseboro, a National Board-Certified Teacher has over four decades teaching in five states. She has experience in public and private schools and colleges, mentoring early career educators, facilitating leadership institutes. She has served as a director of a summer program and chair of her English department, published six textbooks based on these experiences, and was awarded Distinguished Service Awards by the California Association of Teachers of English and the National Council of Teachers of English.Claudia A. Marschall taught English and theater arts for thirty years for the Buffalo Public Schools in Buffalo, New York. She also mentored newly hired English-language arts teachers and those with fewer than three years of classroom experience through the district’s Mentor Teacher Internship Program.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Preparing to Be Effective and EfficientChapter Two: Networking with Narratives to Cultivate CommunityChapter Three: Understanding Grammars to Negotiate ConventionsChapter Four: Writing to Clarify ThinkingChapter Five: Engaging Expository WritingChapter Six: Composing Compelling ArgumentsChapter Seven: Writing Persuasively to Impact Thinking and BehaviorChapter Eight: Writing for Speaking and Multimodal PresentationsAfterwordBibliographyIndexAbout the ContributorsAbout the Authors

Here’s the twenty-four-hour resourceful mentor that every English teacher wants on call from the moment of planning the first class meeting to the final assessment. From the beginning, these two talented English teachers with decades of experience and current in-put from first year college teachers guide these new instructors on how to achieve the college’s academic goals while focusing directly on the individuals in their classes—repeatedly describing a range of methods beginning with the students’ knowledge and interests and developing those into the practices of critical thinking and various modes of writing essential to achieve success in their field. Each chapter establishes goals, strategies, practical step-by-step processes, reinforcement, and self-assessment for the assignment all designed to encourage students to build their best skill sets possible and guiding the college instructor how to succeed at each stage.What a terrific boon for both new and experienced English educators!