Most of us has writing centers in college. We all knew them as the place you went to when you got stuck on a paper or wanted to get a really good grade on an essay. However, writing centers have begun to take place within secondary school as well. Might this be a good idea for Frontier or do we already consider Faytell’s room the writer center?
Here is an excerpt from an article from The National Writing Project. I have also provided a link, which has additional sources that evaluate writing centers and how to create an effective one within a school.
There's nothing particularly new about the concept of a writing center. For years these facilities have served as emergency rooms where struggling college writers have gone to get their writing "fixed." But that's not the way it is anymore.
For one thing, writing centers are no longer only a post-secondary phenomena. Increasingly they have become a part of school culture in high schools, middle schools, and even some elementary schools.
Also, they are not now considered primarily places where triage is performed on ailing compositions. Instead, staffed by enthusiastic and well-trained peer tutors, writing centers have become hubs of literacy, spotlighting the importance of quality writing across the curriculum.
Writing Project sites and teacher-consultants have been in the forefront of the writing center movement, with some sites forming partnerships with schools to provide support, training, and personnel to advance this burgeoning movement.
The NWP has collected resources that demonstrate how writing centers are one effective way to advance the teaching of writing in schools.
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3584
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