Found an article titled "Writing Across the Community: Changing Writing Realities in a University-Run Summer Writing Program for High School Youth" in the Basic Writing Ejournal about a summer writing program at Temple University aimed at helping high school students improve their writing skills and also bridge the gap between high school and college for these students.
This was interesting to me because I have been teaching writing in a summer program (Upward Bound) for the past fifteen years. This summer will be my sixteenth.
Though there have been challenges I've faced by working with high school students in Upward Bound, never has it been like the trials faced by the writer of the article and her colleagues.
One of the points made is that "MFA students needed more preparation for what they were going to face, and ... their graduate focus on writing as an art may have left them ...shocked at realities of teaching."
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