The ROADMAP

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The ROADMAP Creating Applications

• Teaching students to plan their own business and
  succeed at research writing too.

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The HERNDON CAREER CENTER Project

• David A. Ruhman, Director HCC
• david.ruhman_at_raytownschools.org

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Feeding Students for a Lifetime

• TSAs, TCTW-HSTW Assessment, graduation
  requirements.
• 2010 National ACTE Conference.
• Spring 2011 MCCTA Student Survey.
• Red-Headed Step Child in our district/consortium
  .

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Preparing to Fish

• NEED a tool of minimal distraction.
• NEED a tool of maximum attraction.
• Choosing the right bait
• The Roadmap to Success Plan
• Road Signs divided process.
• 6 writing and 1 oral presentation action
  research with business and industry
  representatives, added bonus.

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Casting into the Unknown

• Instructor reluctance.
• District priorities seeing the forest through
  the trees.
• Midwest Writing Project Network
• Business and Industry Partnership Support
• Graduation Requirements There is no more time
  to give to any given subject! (Partnering
  Communication Arts, Entrepreneurship Education
  and Career and Technical Education.

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Casting into the Unknown

• Student resistance Can you really not think of
  anything? beyond the PowerPoint for staff.
• Composition 110 Are you in, or out?
• Conceptualizing how to grade writing when one is
  a career and technical education instructor.
• Peer review, 4-point scale, students sharing
  where they are and where they have been its all
  about FEEDBACK!

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The Art of Attraction!

• Grading
• Duffs Delivery
• Midwest Writing Project Network
• Pisanos Pontification
• High/Medium/Low Books

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Scoring Numbers Scores do not improve writing,
nor student / teacher relationships Feedback
Communication Feedback (when done correctly)
should have a positive impact on the students
writing skill. In addition, communication can
support student / teacher relationships
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Duffs Delivery
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Duffs Delivery
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Writing Process Predominant Traits
Prewriting Ideas, organization, voice
Drafting Word choice and sentence fluency
Sharing Ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency
Revising Ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency
Editing Conventions
Finishing/Publishing Presentation
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Pisanos Pontifications

• Structuring writing start with the old
  information end with the new.
• Dont assign reading or writing without a purpose
  always give direction.
• Before reading, write down what you think you
  know. After reading, STOP/THINK/FORM OPINION.

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Pisanos Pontifications

• Force a choice.
• Guiding questions for students.
• Research (gathering information).
• Identify the difference between synthesis and
  restatement.
• Specifics/logistics of the assignment (limits and
  parameters).

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Pisanos Pontifications

• Show examples of industry writing and do a
  critique with the students.
• Rubrics should define what student MUST do
  (refrain from should do language).

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Landing the BIG One!

• The first writings are turned in.
• New Resources
• Alternative assignments
• Health Sciences
• Law Enforcement / Police Science
• Service Industry v. Business Plans
• FEEDBACK, FEEDBACK, FEEDBACK the Art of
  Improvement.