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Author Sacks, Sharon Z

Title Educating students who have visual impairments with other disabilities / edited by Sharon Z. Sacks and Rosanne K. Silberman ; [forewords by Phil Hatlen and Lori Goetz]
Published Baltimore : Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., [1998]
©1998

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Description xxiv, 519 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface vii -- Douglas D. Hesse -- Acknowledgments xiii -- Introduction xv -- I. Selection and Training 1 -- 1. In Pursuit of Competence: Preparing New Graduate -- Teaching Assistants for the Classroom 3 -- Richard Bullock -- 2. Selecting and Training Undergraduate and Graduate -- Staffs in a Writing Lab 14 -- Muriel Harris -- 3. The Problem Graduate Instructor 30 -- Lynn Langer Meeks and Christine A. Hult -- 4. What Happens When Discourse Communities Collide? -- Portfolio Assessment and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty 44 -- Allene Cooper, Martha Sipe, Teresa Dewey, and -- Stephanie Hunt -- 5. Introducing a Developmental Writing Program at a Small, -- Rural Two-Year College 53 -- Paul Bodmer -- 6. Examining Our Assumptions as Gatekeepers: A Two-Year -- College Perspective 62 -- Howard Tinberg -- II. Program Development 71 -- 7. Mobilizing Human Resources to (Re)Form a Writing Program 73 -- Louise Wetherbee Phelps -- 8. Writing Across the Curriculum 97 -- Joan A. Mullin -- 9. Budgeting and Politics: Keeping the Writing Center Alive 112 -- Linda S. Houston -- 10. From Virtual to Reality: Thinking about Technology and -- the Composition Program 122 -- Deborah H. Holdstein -- 11. Computers in the Writing Center 133 -- Sara E. Kimball -- 12. Productive Change in a Turbulent Atmosphere: Pipe Dream -- or Possibility? 146 -- Rita Malenczyk -- III. Professional Issues of Departmental Authority and -- Professional Development 165 -- 13. A New Millennium for the Writing Program: Introducing -- Authority and Change to Traditional Folks Who Employ -- Time-Worn Practices 167 -- Ben W. McClelland -- 14. Running a Large Writing Program 180 -- Linda Myers-Breslin -- 15. How WPAs Can Learn to Use Power to Their Own -- Advantage 199 -- Barry M. Maid -- 16. How Can Physical Space and Administrative Structure Shape -- Writing Programs, Writing Centers, and WAC Projects? 212 -- Carol Peterson Haviland and Edward M. White -- 17. Managing the Writing Center/ Classroom Relationship 223 -- Dave Healy -- 18. The WPA, the Composition Instructor, and Scholarship 233 -- Lisa Gerrard -- 19. Initiating a Peer Tutoring Program in a University Writing -- Center 247 -- Robert S. Dornsife -- Suggested Reading 255 -- Works Cited 259 -- Index 265 -- Editor 273 -- Contributors 275 -- Contents -- Preface vii -- Douglas D. Hesse -- Acknowledgments xiii -- Introduction xv -- I. Selection and Training 1 -- 1. In Pursuit of Competence: Preparing New Graduate -- Teaching Assistants for the Classroom 3 -- Richard Bullock -- 2. Selecting and Training Undergraduate and Graduate -- Staffs in a Writing Lab 14 -- Muriel Harris -- 3. The Problem Graduate Instructor 30 -- Lynn Langer Meeks and Christine A. Hult -- 4. What Happens When Discourse Communities Collide? -- Portfolio Assessment and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty 44 -- Allene Cooper, Martha Sipe, Teresa Dewey, and -- Stephanie Hunt -- 5. Introducing a Developmental Writing Program at a Small, -- Rural Two-Year College 53 -- Paul Bodmer -- 6. Examining Our Assumptions as Gatekeepers: A Two-Year -- College Perspective 62 -- Howard Tinberg -- II. Program Development 71 -- 7. Mobilizing Human Resources to (Re)Form a Writing Program 73 -- Louise Wetherbee Phelps -- 8. Writing Across the Curriculum 97 -- Joan A. Mullin -- 9. Budgeting and Politics: Keeping the Writing Center Alive 112 -- Linda S. Houston -- 10. From Virtual to Reality: Thinking about Technology and -- the Composition Program 122 -- Deborah H. Holdstein -- 11. Computers in the Writing Center 133 -- Sara E. Kimball -- 12. Productive Change in a Turbulent Atmosphere: Pipe Dream -- or Possibility? 146 -- Rita Malenczyk -- III. Professional Issues of Departmental Authority and -- Professional Development 165 -- 13. A New Millennium for the Writing Program: Introducing -- Authority and Change to Traditional Folks Who Employ -- Time-Worn Practices 167 -- Ben W. McClelland -- 14. Running a Large Writing Program 180 -- Linda Myers-Breslin -- 15. How WPAs Can Learn to Use Power to Their Own -- Advantage 199 -- Barry M. Maid -- 16. How Can Physical Space and Administrative Structure Shape -- Writing Programs, Writing Centers, and WAC Projects? 212 -- Carol Peterson Haviland and Edward M. White -- 17. Managing the Writing Center/ Classroom Relationship 223 -- Dave Healy -- 18. The WPA, the Composition Instructor, and Scholarship 233 -- Lisa Gerrard -- 19. Initiating a Peer Tutoring Program in a University Writing -- Center 247 -- Robert S. Dornsife -- Suggested Reading 255 -- Works Cited 259 -- Index 265 -- Editor 273 -- Contributors 275
Summary "Edited by leaders in the fields of visual impairments and severe disabilities, this practical text brings together expertise from a broad range of disciplines to assist general educators, special educators, related-services personnel, and families in developing exemplary methods and strategies to meet the unique educational needs of students who have visual impairments with other disabilities. Realistic vignettes, sample assessment and data forms, and examples of specialized curricula help the professional to design instruction that is meaningful and generalizable. A hands-on resource, this book provides information for professionals who serve students who have visual impairments with other disabilities and their families, from infancy to adulthood."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject People with disabilities -- Education -- United States.
People with disabilities -- Education.
People with visual disabilities -- Education -- United States.
People with visual disabilities -- Education.
Teachers of the blind -- Training of -- United States.
Teaching -- Aids and devices.
Teaching -- United States -- Aids and devices.
Author Sacks, Sharon.
Silberman, Rosanne K.
LC no. 98012806
ISBN 1557662800