A Portfolio Primer explains how any teacher can build a community of writers, using portfolios to demonstrate progress across the curriculum. Intended for teachers of grades three through twelve, the book outlines practical strategies for ensuring that students explore meaningful challenges and develop essential speaking skills. Author Geof Hewitt chairs Vermont's Writing Assessment Leadership Committee, which designed the nation's first statewide portfolio-based writing assessment program. Recognizing the new national emphasis on assessing students' learning, he explores a range of uses for portfolios that complement formal assessment programs for all subjects. Key to the success of a classroom program is the students' regular use of their portfolios and the ongoing activity of reflecting on, and editing, their selections. Hewitt suggests the kinds of work that should go into a student's portfolio. In a step-by-step review of "the writing process," he explains how to guide students in developing their own processes and argues that "the process" should be reserved for only those pieces toward which the student feels substantial commitment. A Portfolio Primer provides generous samples of student work, including two portfolios reprinted in their entirety, as well as a variety of tools for formal and informal assessments. The book also offers practical suggestions for ensuring ownership so that students can control and witness their own development in the classroom.

A Portfolio Primer: Teaching, Collecting, and Assessing Student Writing

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Hewitt, Geof

Words, Language & Grammar

Heinemann

Today You Are My Favorite Poet is a refreshing look at the art of poetry writing. It is also a vigorous exploration of a variety of approaches-involving form, style, content, and attitude. Hewitt offers proven strategies for writing and revision, provides definitions of a variety of poetic forms, suggests more than thirty writing exercises, outlines a thirty-week poetry curriculum, and best of all, provides numerous models (most of them written by teenagers), all thoughtfully selected to instill confidence in both teacher and student.

Today You Are My Favorite Poet: Writing Poems with Teenagers

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Entrepreneurial Know How! Learn from the expert and then be one yourself!

Working for yourself: How to be successfully self-employed

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Rodale Press

Geof Hewitt, born in 1943, grew up in New Jersey and moved to Vermont in 1970 where he and his wife , Janet , live with their two children Anna and Ben. These poems are extraordinary: funny, tough, sometimes very sad, but above all original and unexpected. What strange reversals, things turned inside out!

Just Worlds

Poetry

Greenfield Review Pr

Poetry. THE PERFECT HEART documents 45 years' worth of extraordinary work by a poet who is a true heir to Frost and Carruth--their tonalities and breadth of concern and vision, and their grounding in rural Vermont. Geof Hewitt's range and craft, the variety of his short and long poems, are admirable, as is the constancy of his spirit. He is open to a multitude of leadings, never with restricted agendas, and fearlessly takes the reader along as a trusted friend and confidante. This book could aptly be called "Love Tokens," for that's what most of the poems are. This is a collection to celebrate with each reading.

The Perfect Heart: Selected & New Poems

Literary

Mayapple Press

The history, the rules, organizing, performing, scoring: all these are the elements of a fascinating phenomenon known as "Slam Poetry." Designed and concocted more than 20 years ago in Chicago and what has come to be a "new American artform," slam poetry and poetry slams are lushly written about by veteran poet, Geof Hewitt. Vermont's 2004 state champion, Hewitt is a master of the game but reminds us that "the point is not the points, the point is the poetry."

Hewitt's Guide to Slam Poetry and Poetry Slam with DVD

Discover Writing Pr

Poetry & Performance (1) (Volume One)

Moore, Alex

Edwards, Karen

Connors, Patrick

Gallagher, Chris

Brydges, David C.

Writers Group, Green Mountain

Witte, Darlene

Beckhardt, Robert

DiMaio, Edward

Fisher, Kathy

Girouard, Jodi

Gray, Dennis W.

Hadley, Amy

Johnson Jr., Jerry

Kolber, Samantha

Loveday, Joshua

Miller, Dawn L. C.

Quinlan, Linda

Rosenthal, Scott Norman

Vandersteen, Max

Wilmot, Clare

Fifer, Ken

Hailey, Cathy

Holley, Laura

DesignWise Studios

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