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Ann
M. Johns
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One of the most important service areas for literacy faculty at the college level should be to work with secondary schools on a variety of issues that are of concern to teachers. As a result, several of my colleagues and I have been involved with a number of school projects. With district and AVID [Advancement Via Individual Determination] teachers, I have led workshops for both English/language arts faculty and history/social science faculty on topics such as these: student and teacher research, expository reading and writing, reading and writing rhetorically, academic skills for college (e.g., summarizing and annotating), and using the web (information competence). Included here are the links for some of the more recent projects: AVID The AVID Program, (Advancement via Individual Determination), which has been in existence for more than 30 years, was initially dedicated to encouraging and enabling first generation secondary students to attend university, though it now has programs in primary schools and post-secondary institutions, as well. I am the author and lead staff developer of the 11th and 12th grade AVID elective program called Essential Academic Skills for College Readiness at the annual AVID Summer Institutes. The textbook for this program is AVID College Readiness: Working with Sources which I have written, and revised, for the several years. My colleague, Jonathan LeMaster, an experienced AVID teacher and author of AVID's Critical Reading volume, and I are working with the AVID Center curriculum staff to increase rigor across the curriculum. (See Jon's website LiteracyTA.com.) Attached is a Power Point and handouts from the presentation entitled "College Reading and Writing Demands Across the Curriculum" produced for one of the AVId Summer Institutes. Manual for Student Research: Contents of the student research manual (2003-2005). For two local school districts near San Diego, I conducted focus groups and studied secondary standards before producing this manual. Since 2002, I have conducted workshops and classes for community colleges (e.g., Southwestern and Los Medanos) and secondary schools, for the AVID Center, and the American Language Institute (SDSU) in the San Diego region and elsewhere. This is the 2010 list, for example:
I have also taught credit-bearing courses for practicing secondary teachers in the region. One (Fall, 2009: RWS 509) was offered through an AVID grant to teachers in North San Diego County. A second (Fall, 2010, Linguistics 530) was offered to secondary teachers in South County (the Sweetwater Union High School District). In the fall, 2010, I also taught an advanced academic writing class for international students at the American Language Institute (SDSU).
It is very important for those of us who write---and care about our academic institutions and student literacies---to speak out on issues that concern us. Here, I list one attempt to "put my money where my mouth is," by publishing and speaking in/with the media. "The Future of SDSU," published
in the San Diego Union-Tribune,
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