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Imagining The Possible: Reflections On Teaching A Writing Methods Course For Pre-Service Undergraduate Secondary English/Language Arts Teachers, Emily S. Meixner
Imagining The Possible: Reflections On Teaching A Writing Methods Course For Pre-Service Undergraduate Secondary English/Language Arts Teachers, Emily S. Meixner
Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education
What's possible in a teaching writing methods class? In this essay, the author provides a descriptive portrait of the undergraduate secondary writing methods course she teaches, focusing on five specific learning outcomes: teacher writing identities, knowledge of writer's craft, grammatical awareness and an understanding of linguistic justice/injustice, writing workshop methodology, and genre-based unit and lesson planning. Course readings, assignments, and work samples are included.
Humanizing The Teaching Of Writing By Centering The Writer, Naitnaphit Limlamai
Humanizing The Teaching Of Writing By Centering The Writer, Naitnaphit Limlamai
Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education
In this work, the author explains how she prepared preservice secondary teachers to consider themselves as writers and to teach writing in more humanizing ways. She first describes how preservice teachers were guided to cultivate identities as writers and broaden ideas of “writing.” With new knowledge about themselves as they developed writerly identities, they surfaced and unpacked existing ideas about learning how to write and built knowledge about teaching writing, creating teaching artifacts like unit and lesson plans, interacting with local adolescent writers in pen pal letters, and participating in simulated feedback sessions with adolescent writers. Asking preservice teachers to …
Confidence Builds Competence: Creating Literate Identities As Readers And Writers, Victoria A. Oglan, Janie R. Goodman
Confidence Builds Competence: Creating Literate Identities As Readers And Writers, Victoria A. Oglan, Janie R. Goodman
South Carolina Association for Middle Level Education Journal
The authors review four texts that offer teachers of all disciplines support for creating opportunities for students to develop their literate identities as readers and writers. The texts are: Focus Lesson: How Photography Enhances the Teaching of Writing; Story Matters: Teaching Teens to Use the Tools of Narrative to Argue and Inform; Breathing New Life into Book Clubs: A Practical Guide for Teachers; and Unlocking the Power of Classroom Talk: Teaching Kids to Talk with Clarity and Purpose.