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Writing instruction

2020

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

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Not Quite The End Of The World: Two Student Teachers Grappling With Covid-19, Katie Alford Jul 2020

Not Quite The End Of The World: Two Student Teachers Grappling With Covid-19, Katie Alford

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

This article shares the experiences of two student teachers as they traversed the complex and unknown world of COVID-19. It highlights the lessons they learned and how they supported student writers in their classroom in unique ways as a result of e-learning.


Teacher Candidates As Writers: What Is The Relationship Between Writing Experiences And Pedagogical Practice, Vicki Mcquitty, Ellen Ballock Jan 2020

Teacher Candidates As Writers: What Is The Relationship Between Writing Experiences And Pedagogical Practice, Vicki Mcquitty, Ellen Ballock

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

Both teacher candidates (TCs) and practicing teachers are asked to engage in personal writing experiences as means of learning about writing instruction. Yet, research on the relationship between writing and teaching writing provides variable, sometimes contradictory, results. This study investigated the relationship between TCs’ experiences writing a personal narrative in an undergraduate teacher education course and how they read and respond to a second grader’s personal narrative. Results indicate that, initially, many TCs did not draw on their writing experiences to inform how they analyzed, interpreted, and responded to the student’s composition. However, when specifically prompted to think about their …